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 Alzheimer’ ...

Explore Nominate someone for a Community Gem award here. She crocheted more than 100 prayer shawls for the church and crochets about 60 winter hats a year, using leftover yarn fro ...

When Angela Ernst was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, she received a crocheted prayer shawl from a crafter through the program ...

Faith Alive Church of Palmerton had a recent blessing of prayer shawls, fidget blankets,and lap robes. Pictured are some of the participants of crochet and quilting ministry alongside the Rev. Rob Tim ...

And out of their talented hands, shawls, blankets, scarves, and hats are born. The women are members of the Prayer Shawl Ministry at Our Lady of Lourdes. Mary Mooney says her father, Jim McMahon, ...

Courtesy Photo Bev Sparling, a member of Alpena’s First Presbyterian Church, has crocheted over 200 prayer shawls, a mission project she began while serving as deacon five years ago. Shawls have ...

She loved fiber arts and blessed many families, friends, and strangers with her cross stitches, hand sewn quilts, and crocheted prayer shawls, hats and blankets.

(OSV News) — A prayer shawl ministry at a Pennsylvania parish is wrapping hundreds around the world in what members call “a hug from God.” Since June 2015, a dedicated group of four to five volunteers ...

Members of the prayer shawl ministry at St. Rose of Lima Parish in North Wales, Pa., are seen in this undated photo. OSV News photo/St. Rose of Lima Parish A prayer shawl ministry at a Pennsylvania ...

MILL HALL — The Prayer Shawl Ministry (PSM) at the Bald Eagle United Presbyterian Church in Mill Hall is getting ready for their annual Knit N’ Run, to be held Saturday at 10 a.m. Held in ...

TAMMY COAKLEY/THE EXPRESS Paisley, the great-granddaughter of one of the Prayer Shawl Ministry needleworkers is shown with balls of yarn scraps left from a colorful, crocheted “Granny Square ...