I am so lucky, about 3 or 4 years ago there was an ad in the Pennysaver about a quilting ministry that was starting in my town. I answered the ad and found sewing sisters. Although it is a church ministry, it's not my church, but that doesn't matter...we are working towards a common goal. We get together on the 1st and 3rd Sunday afternoons for 3 hours and sew quilts that we give to a hospital pediatric ward and a battered women's shelter, and a church ministry assisting young mothers with baby layettes. It is wonderful. Between weeks, I design and sew quilts for the ministry....but it's the afternoons with the girls that I cherish the most.