BOB ABERNETHY: We have a Belief and Practice segment this week about a knitting ministry. Knitting has taken off as a trendy hobby in many cities, but knitters around the country are finding it can be ...

[email protected] Sep 22, 2010 Sep 22, 2010 ANDOVER — With every stitch Kelly Nickerson makes, there is a prayer and thought of love that goes into the shawls she knits. "I ask God that ...

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Oct. 12—WORTHINGTON — Knit three, perle three, knit three, perle three — the Rev. Anne Hokenstad doesn't need to say the words aloud as her fingers work the yarn over wooden knitting needles, but she ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dozen women from Wesleyville's Messiah Lutheran Church spent the past year knitting and crocheting blue and pink and red and green and brown and other colors of yarn into prayer shawls. On Thursday, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On a brisk winter day last month, six women gathered in a cozy room at Sacred Heart Glyndon, a ...

FRANKLIN — Members of the Prayer Shawl Ministry at the First Universalist Society in Franklin are masters at giving group hugs. Their kind of hugging, though, doesn’t involve multiple pairs of ...

"I feel the arms of our Lord are around me," wrote Mary in a thank you note to Grace Lutheran Church in Hendersonville after she'd received a Prayer Shawl knitted by Skip Andersen, church coordinator ...