The ministry began at the No Place Like Home orphanage in Port-au-Prince when a group of women from Texas saw a need for marketable skills so that women in Haiti could earn income to help support their families.  After graduating a class from a two-year program, the ministry was dissolved. It became apparent that the need was much greater than just teaching sewing skills, as most of the women in the first class were unable to read.

Sewing for Souls was revived in February 2018 with the enrollment of 33 women in a two-year program.  This time, our goals include teaching the women to sew, teaching them to read, conducting Bible study groups, and helping the women to market products that they learn to make in order to provide a source of income for their families.  Most of the women are mothers, or of childbearing age, and our goal is to help the women to support their children so that they do not feel pressure to give them up for adoption. Doors opened to the new class on April 2, and a team of women from Community Baptist Church of Stuart, Florida and South Chatham Community Church of South Chatham, Massachusetts visited in April to help kick off the activities.