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Hello, we are Father Jonathan Landon and Rebeka Landon, proprietors of Stitched With Grace. In December 2006 we celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary. Rebeka has been blessed to be able to be a full-time homemaker for most of that time, and has home-schooled our three children. In the 2005-2006 school year, our children began to take some classes at public school. As the children became more self-reliant, Rebeka has been able to turn some of her time and energy to establishing our growing embroidery business. Father Jonathan is a priest in the Charismatic Episcopal Church and a US Army Chaplain on active duty. His specialized area of ministry is Hospital Chaplaincy, and he is currently on the staff of a combat support hospital. He was deployed in Iraq from October 2005 to October 2006. Some time ago, Rebeka's mother gave us a second-hand embroidery machine. It was far from new, and lacks many capabilities found in current models. However, we bought Embird® software to create and edit embroidery designs for the machine and we took on a major project, producing name tapes and patches for our family's annual "Grandma Camp". For several years, Rebeka's family has conducted a week-long theme camp on 21 acres owned by her parents and sister in Oregon. It's fun, educational and very labor-intensive for all the adults involved. In about four months, we produced over 600 patches and name tapes. In the process we learned a lot about machine embroidery and design digitizing. We had so much fun - despite the limited capabilities of our machine, that we decided to buy a more up-to-date machine. We bought a Brother PR600, a single-head, six-needle, commercial embroidery machine. We felt that we got a great deal on the machine, but still the cost was more than twice the cost of Father Jonathan's minivan. To recover the cost of the machine, we acquired a business license and launched Stitched With Grace to create and sell embroidered products, as well as custom and stock designs. Many of our designs reflect our Christian faith or our military experiences. We will not produce designs or products which - in our judgment - are inconsistent with the values of our Christian faith. Examples would include any design which represents or advocates illegal or immoral conduct, or which degrades any person or group. 1 Stitched With Grace is not affiliated with nor endorsed by the Charismatic Episcopal Church. For more information on the Charismatic Episcopal Church, click here. 2 The US military is mentioned only for biographical details on the proprietor. Stitched With Grace is not affiliated with nor endorsed by the US Department of Defense or any of its agencies. |
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