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What is a Prayer Shawl? |
Can you touch a prayer?
Can you pull it close and feel its comfort?
You can if it comes as a gift in the form of a Prayer Shawl. |
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Prayer Shawls are simple gifts of grace from God that are prayerfully and lovingly stitched as a reminder that God's promise is always with us. A hug from God bringing God's love, comfort, and peace to those in need. |
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You can click on the bottom LEFT button to view each of our 2 photo galleries, or click on the bottom RIGHT square with the arrow to view the slide shows in Full Screen. Enjoy! |
Our Prayer Shawl Ministry started at Mount Olive Lutheran Church on May 4, 2010 with ten ladies attending.
It has grown to thirty-two ladies and one gentlemen.
We just celebrated our first Annual Anniversary Potluck on June 15, 2011 with 55 (men & women) attending.
The food was delicious along with a beautiful display of shawls and scrapbooks.
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David and Lisa Townsend rang bells in memory of those who have passed away.
As of that date we have given out 210 prayer shawls, reaching out as far as Germany.
We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 10:00am at the Youth House and every fourth Tuesday at 6:00pm at the Youth House.
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For more information contact: Kathy Sporre 928-855-1704 or Shelly Hales 928-566-4551 |
| PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY NEWS
We are thrilled to announce that 400 shawls have been delivered as of April 16th. Even though the heat is rising and it feels too warm to wear one, our shawls give peace of mind to many who need prayers and healing. There is no greater evidence of this than reading the thank you notes and letters we have received. Come join us in the Youth house and see these beautiful notes or browse through the scrapbooks for people you know at our next meeting.
New shawls were just blessed at the Saturday evening service on April 14th including some cute little ones for children. These shawls are being sent to Phoenix Children’s Hospital!! We rejoice in knowing that our ministry is reaching out to some innocent young lives that need Jesus to wrap his arms around them.
Thanks you to Evelyn Cramer for taking time to sort, roll and organize the small unusable remnants of yarn in our collection. Evelyn took the yarn to Prestige to use in their craft program. We also want to thank Grace Holling, Karen John and other anonymous donors for the contribution of more yarn! Our ladies can do the most amazing things with color in a shawl! They manage to use colors that on their own don’t look good, but together in a shawl they take on a whole new look. We look forward to getting together on May 8th at 10:00 AM and May 22 at 6:00PM. Hope you can join us! |
Great News!! |
The Phoenix Children's Hospital will be receiving a donation of prayer shawls and Beanie Babies for children that could benefit from the healing and comfort. They were really excited about receiving the shawls and will get the prayers shawls and Beanie Babies to Rev. Charles to distribute.
A Big Thank You to Leonora Morrell for calling it to our attention. How exciting that we can reach out and touch these little ones.
God Bless, Kathy Sporre
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