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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Donna Wilkening’s father-in-law passed away five years ago, she decided to make a shawl to comfort her mother-in-law. A year later, Wilkening's brother-in-law died, so she made a shawl to comfort ...

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 ...

When he was just 2 months old, Ryan DeBaggis of Norwell developed a tumor on his neck and spent months at Children’s Hospital in Boston. When he needed critical surgery, his mother, Jean, asked ...

They gather together as a group to create gifts of comfort, hope and peace. More specifically, the Ladies of Faith Alive Church Prayer Shawl Ministry in Bowmanstown make memory blankets for ...

ST. PAUL — A quilt group at St. Paul United Methodist Church meets the needs of Alzheimer’s patients who like to keep their hands busy. The church group makes fidget blankets, which include plenty of ...