Hundred of prayer shawls arrive after Hebrew Free Burial puts out call Less than 48 hours later, he had collected 150 himself and pledges of hundreds more to come from as far away as South Florida and ...

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 ...

She got out her own knitting needles and yarn and got to work on another prayer shawl. “Being able to do it for someone else was a wonderful feeling,” she said. “After being a recipient, I knew how ...

"Knit three … purl three … knit three … purl three … and please, God, bless the person who will wrap this prayer shawl around them." So goes the solitary ...