Using crochet hooks and knitting needles inherited from her mother, Reggie Dirnberger patiently and prayerfully creates warm shawls intended to bless others in need of comfort. Known as prayer shawls, ...

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 ...

Linda Hanson’s prayer shawls are unique. She has a calling card, she says. It’s a note, attached to every shawl she makes, that reads: “Each time the yarn is joined, a prayer has been said for you.

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — It's a story about about finding hope in the darkest of circumstances. In 2009, a prayer shawl program started at Indiana University Health West. "We give those to patients when ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA - At 94, Irene Marder is handing out hope, one prayer shawl at a time. If you spend enough time in a cancer center infusion room, you start to notice things. It's crowded, it's quiet, and, as ...

EAST MOLINE -- Prayer-shawl makers at East Moline's First Presbyterian Church use needles, yarn and God's blessings in their pattern. The church's Prayer Shawl Ministry team meets from 9 to 11 a.m. on ...

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 ...