Each ministry's volunteers have shared their hands-on, creative gifts to the result of 1,800 personally crocheted or knitted prayer shawls/blankets/baptismal blankets and nearly 1,000 hand sewn ...

Now Doolaard leads a group of about 25 women who knit and crochet prayer shawls for organizations including Wings of Mercy and Holland Hospital. She estimated the group has given away about 200 ...

“I just go whenever there’s a sale,” she said. The women say anyone can learn to crochet a prayer shawl. It only takes five minutes to learn the basics, Wanda Lyon said. Then it’s just a m ...

THEODORE, Alabama — The women of Theodore United Methodist Church Prayer Shawl Ministry don’t know how many people have been touched by the beautiful afghans and shawls they’ve crocheted or ...

Now the Prayer Shawl Ministry from Saints Peter and Paul has branched out to crochet tiny baby hats, which Marek sends to Angel at her new home in Arkansas. “Right now we try to send out 100 to ...

Warming beneath his favorite hand-crocheted prayer shawl - a gift three weeks ago from the Hospice of South Texas - Westerholm arrives at a lucid thought about death. "I'm not afraid to die.

Baber recruited Gundersen to crochet prayer shawls for ailing patients. Just shy of a year since starting the project, Gundersen has crafted seven of the shawls, which are a shade smaller than a ...

"A prayer shawl is when someone is having a difficult time or is scared or whatever, it’s something that has been knit or crocheted with prayer, and then blessed and then we can wrap the patient ...