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 ...

WHEN HER SISTER was diagnosed with brain cancer, Nazanin “Nazee” S. Fard knew just what to do: Knit. “I started learning how to knit when I was 3½. I remember distinctly my mom being pregnant with my ...

The Prayer Shawl Ministry needleworkers laid out many of the lap robes, lap afghans and prayer shawls that the bikers of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - When Angela Ernst was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, she received a crocheted prayer shawl from a crafter through the program Caring Thru Cancer. She’s kept that shawl ever ...

Illness and bereavement can bring on a need for warmth and comfort. That need is being fulfilled through a prayer shawl ministry. At Maple United Methodist Church a shawl ministry was born two years ...