Starting a "Prayers and Squares" Ministry at our Church....
#11
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Cadillac, MI
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Ours are finished, but not quilted. The embroidery floss is put in and not tied by the quilter or by the quilter and friends. When the quilt is chosen to be used, it is placed on the altar during a service and is part of the communal prayer. Then it goes to a table in a quiet corner of the Fellowship Hall and after church, the knots are prayed over and tied by congregation members. I feel the congregation's involvement is an intregal part of the procedure. I know one friend constantly fingered the knots 'feeling the prayers' when she was very ill.
#12
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Originally Posted by Shelbie
Asl your local quilt guild as quilters are very generous people and probably have yardage that they will part with. Put signs up at your LQS that other quilters may see. Your local seniors centre may have people that are down sizing and would appreciate the work that you are doing and give generously to your group. Good luck with this new ministry.
And ........ don't forget there may be other quilters right here on this Board who would help out. Tell us where you are, and what you'd really like .... and who knows, what may come your way from the Angels here!!!!
#13
We have started a prayer quilt ministry at our church. We have put several notices in bulletins and newsletters about needing fabric and batting. We have received both!! We have given out 11 or 12 quilts in a little over a year. Praise God, we seem to have a healthy church right now!
#14
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Connecticut
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I am not sure how to start it, but I was blessed to receive one from my DS's church in WA. What a surprise since I live in CT. Our church makes prayer shawls and so they are not interested in starting prayer quilts. I crochet shawls for our church's ministry, but there is something missing in the way the quilts work. The prayers offered specifically for the person as the group ties the quilt at the end of the service really makes these quilts special! My quilt was tied with crochet cotton. Also, her church made a special label that was printed on the computer. They left a space to use a pen to write the name of the person receiving the quilt. Good Luck with your ministry.
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