[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 ...

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 ...

With the spike in demand for the society’s services caused by the coronavirus, the supply of the traditional wrapping ran low. (JTA) – Andrew Parver’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sunday. That’s ...

This year has gone by so fast that it seems there is no time for anything. Several members of the Congregation at North Main Street United Methodist Church did find time to do beautiful prayer shawls ...

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. – Knitted shawls in a rainbow of colors overflowed from a basket in Joyce Meekins’ Amesbury living room in early April. Hidden somewhere in the pile lay the 1,000th shawl created by ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Arthur was in his 90s and for months had been in and out of Providence Medical Center. When he became critically ill, he received a prayer shawl. “He felt that it was a tangible ...

Muriel Fredericks spent her 80th birthday Monday by volunteering her regular shift and delivering a prayer shawl to a thankful patient at Mesa's Banner Heart Hospital. "I never thought I wouldn't," ...

JTA– Andrew Parver’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sunday. That’s when Parver, the director of operations at the Hebrew Free Burial Association in New York City, put out a call for donations of ...

An Israeli prayer shawl, more commonly known as a Tallit, is something that many religious Israelis and religious Jews give their children as a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah present. The prayer shawl is ...