Prayer Shawl Ministry Outreach

An opportunity to make a shawl on a
monthly basis or one time only for
Interval House in Hartford, CT
a shelter for victims of domestic violence.

domestic violence in our country. She was tragically killed in a plane crash with Senator Paul Wellstone on October 25, 2002.

Remember Sheila by knitting a healing shawl for a mother or sister of a woman who was murdered in domestic violence.

Are you interested in making Prayer Shawls 4 Fallen Soldiers' families?

If so, go to the following website for details:

Prayer Shawls for Fallen Soldiers' Families

Or contact:

ps4fs@earthlink.net

Please also consider donating shawls to your local Veteran's Home

PRAYER CLOTH AND SHAWL MINISTRIES
A ministry that offers prayer cloths and shawls to those

Please send finished prayer shawls to OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE, a volunteer group
that collects homemade quilts and prayer shawls to send to military and combat
hospitals in Iraq. This group also delivers to the Fisher House at Brooke Army
Medical Hospital at Ft. Hood, Texas, and to Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska:

Attention: Peggy Baker
Operation First Response, Inc
20037 Dove Hill Road
Culpeper, VA 22701

For more questions, email Peggy at: info@operationfirstresponse.org

www.operationfirstresponse.org
Supporting our Nation's wounded Heroes
540-547-9011
www.givingprofits.com/operationfirstresponse

Please be sure to tag your name and address and attach to the corner of the
quilt so the recipient knows who the maker is. This allows the recipient or
one of their family members to send a note to you if they choose.

WINGS PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

The Wings Cancer Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 organization providing a collaboration of services free of charge where cancer patients and their families can find information, understanding, compassion, and hope. Cancer is a unique disease that attacks the mind, body, and spirit. Wings embraces the whole person, not just the disease, and our services include a lending library, a labyrinth, nutritional counseling, exercise and yoga classes, crisis intervention, as well as support groups and a weekly prayer circle.

Our prayer shawl ministry has grown out of the desire to combine the healing power of prayer with

the healing ministry of human touch. At Wings, we enfold each person in genuine loving concern

and envision each shawl extending that “hug” and bringing comfort and solace

even when we’re not physically present.

We’re looking for knitters/crocheters to help us meet this need.

Finished shawls should be approximately 24 x 65 inches to provide a warm and comfortable wrap.

Please send finished shawls (with your name included so we can put it on the card) to:

WINGS PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

Wings Cancer Foundation

1588 Union Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104

901.322.0447

Questions can be addressed to the above phone number or to brimer@wingscancerfoundation.org

The Anna M. Fulling Community Chaplaincy

Program of The Capitol Region Conference of Churches is in need of

Prayer Shawls for the sick at Hartford Hospital.

Patients are visited daily by the hospital

Chaplains of the Department of Pastoral Services

Attention: Prayer Shawl Coordinator

Capitol Region Conference of Churches Hartford Hospital Pastoral Services

60 Lorraine Street 80 Seymour St, CB-3^rd Floor

Hartford, CT 06105 Hartford, CT 06102

860-236-1295 860-545-2251

Thank you!

In an effort to reach out globally with a gesture of peace, we invite you to knit a shawl to be given to a woman in Israel by the Interfaith Encounter Association. This association fosters dialogue among people of different faith traditions on a grassroots level to bring about understanding and, hopefully, peace! As knitters and crocheters of shawls which embody prayer, compassion, and a desire to pass on a blessing, we thought that this would be a wonderful way to connect with the world beyond the borders of our country....hand-to-hand, heart-to-heart, person-to-person. Because it is very costly to ship a large quantity of shawls to Jerusalem, we ask that each knitter, or knitting circle, mail their own shawl/s. The charges will vary depending on the location from which it is sent.

Then contact us by e-mail to let us know how many shawls have been sent. Thank you for being a part of this effort. We believe that peace comes to the individual before it can come to the world, and hopefully, we can help foster those changes.

For more information about the Interfaith Encounter Organization visit their web site at:

Ad Hoc Prayer Shawl Ministry

for Beslan, Russia Families

The families of Beslan, Russia, have been overwhelmed by grief since the siege of their

school on September 4, 2004. Over 200 people, mostly children, were killed that day.

At the 2004 Gathering of Prayer Shawl Ministries in Hartford, Connecticut, individuals

and whole ministries became part of an ad hoc Prayer Shawl Ministry to knit shawls

for these Russian families. By word of mouth (actually, by email), knitters of different

This collaborative effort was organized by members of the United Parish, Lunenburg, Mass.,

Lone Survivor and families of victims of Comair Flight 5191 - Lexington, KY September 2006

Maseno, Kenya - Mercy Home Orphanage
United Kingdom Territory - Salvation Army
Mwanga, Tanzania - HIV/AIDS Orphans and Widows

The Anna M. Fulling Community Chaplaincy

Program of The Capitol Region Conference of Churches is in need of

Prayer Shawls for the sick at Hartford Hospital.