Giving gentle comfort to others in need, while bonding in prayer and fellowship, is merely the start of the joyful benefits achieved by members of the prayer shawl and quilting ministries held at the ...

After a summer hiatus, the Welcome and Care Team at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church UCC is restarting its Prayer Shawl ...

"Knit three … purl three … knit three … purl three … and please, God, bless the person who will wrap this prayer shawl around them." So goes the solitary ...

Chris Stuck, left, and Michelle Frankenberger join hands in prayer during a meeting of the Hospice of South Texas Prayer Shawl Ministry. Members of the ministry meet weekly to crochet prayer shawls ...

On a blustery, frigid night in January, a group of women gathered around the warm inviting fireplace in the lobby of Valley View Hospital with their knitting. Spilling over their laps from their ...

The Prayer Shawl Ministry was started in 1998 in the United States by Vicki Galo and Janet Bristow. It's an ecumenical ministry that has gone around the world. In the fall of 2005, I was going to have ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS -- The clicking of the knitting needles is not the only sound that is heard when the ladies of the prayer shawl ministry at Disciples Christian Church get together. There is also the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Phyllis Elrich "always loved the comfort of the tallit" so she eagerly joined in a project to make about a dozen women's prayer shawls that were blessed last Friday at Temple ...