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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Several congregations in Huntsville and other cities have found tangible ways to wrap people in prayer through making and giving away crocheted shawls and hand-knit blankets. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The group of women sat around a table at Broadway Court Estates Friday, crochet hooks in hand, as activities assistant Sarah Ivie dumped bags of new skeins of yarn on the table. “Oh, I like that one,” ...

FLORENCE, Ky. (WKRC) - Earlier in November, the pastoral team at St. Elizabeth Healthcare put out the request for people willing to create some warmth for others through what's called a prayer shawl.

THEODORE, Alabama — The women of Theodore United Methodist Church Prayer Shawl Ministry don’t know how many people have been touched by the beautiful afghans and shawls they’ve crocheted or knitted ...

For the first few years she participated in Hooks and Needles, Donna McDonough kept track of how many blankets and shawls she and her friends made. “We were into the thousands then,” she said. And ...