BOB ABERNETHY: We have a Belief and Practice segment this week about a knitting ministry. Knitting has taken off as a trendy hobby in many cities, but knitters around the country are finding it can be ...

Trinity Lutheran Church is a month into its Prayer Shawl Ministry for comforting hurting people by a spiritual and tactile remedy. Their mission statement: "Creating prayer shawls for people needing ...

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 ...

FARGO – Mildred Hall sits surrounded by skeins of colored yarn, her fingers flying in an intricate dance that produces items of comfort and beauty for people who might be struggling. At 84, Hall has ...

BEAVERTOWN -- A stitch in time... Makes 500. Shawls that is. The Middlecreek Valley Prayer Shawl Ministry has reached that milestone after 4 ½years of knitting and crocheting the creations for some ...

A dozen women from Wesleyville's Messiah Lutheran Church spent the past year knitting and crocheting blue and pink and red and green and brown and other colors of yarn into prayer shawls. On Thursday, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On a brisk winter day last month, six women gathered in a cozy room at Sacred Heart Glyndon, a ...

FRANKLIN — Members of the Prayer Shawl Ministry at the First Universalist Society in Franklin are masters at giving group hugs. Their kind of hugging, though, doesn’t involve multiple pairs of ...

"I feel the arms of our Lord are around me," wrote Mary in a thank you note to Grace Lutheran Church in Hendersonville after she'd received a Prayer Shawl knitted by Skip Andersen, church coordinator ...

For more information, contact Jeanne Henley of the prayer shawl ministry at [email protected] or Nancy Morbeck regarding the quilt ministry at [email protected]. Shepherd of the Prairie ...