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 ...

"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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Fales has embraced more than a thousand people around the world with the hug of her soft, warm shawls. The 79-year-old Middlefield woman spends a good portion of her days settled in a cozy ...

Fremont has several prayer shawl ministries, individuals and church-sponsored groups who knit or crochet light-weight, shoulder-sized shawls. These are given to people who need them. The knitter or ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Arthur was in his 90s and for months had been in and out of Providence Medical Center. When he became critically ill, he received a prayer shawl. "He felt that it was a tangible ...

This year has gone by so fast that it seems there is no time for anything. Several members of the Congregation at North Main Street United Methodist Church did find time to do beautiful prayer shawls ...