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 ...

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 ...

Though ancient Jewish men first wore them ... and as young as 16 gather there to crochet, knit, weave and quilt shawls, said Janet Streed, who co-chairs the prayer shawl ministry committee with ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Fremont has several prayer shawl ministries, individuals and church-sponsored groups who knit or crochet light-weight ... They made scarves for men who might not want a shawl.

She added “we gave a total of 90 lap robes, 90 prayer shawls and 50 chemo hats.” “We would like to thank everyone who crocheted, donated yarn and also all the prayers,” Hartranft-Johnston ...