LAFAYETTE — On any given Thursday morning at First Baptist Church, a roomful of women mobilize to equip, energize and encourage the sick. Their purpose is prayer, but their tools are sewing machines.

For Peg Peterson of Danvers, neither a quilter nor seamstress, starting a prayer blanket ministry may have seemed like an unlikely calling. Nevertheless, thanks to the efforts of many, her work to ...

Members of the Catholic Daughters of America at Holy Family Catholic Church are covering hundreds of people with prayers – literally – through the Prayer Blanket Ministry. Claudia Sheblak, Ginger ...

Getting blankets, comfort and care to students shaken by last month’s shooting tragedy at Michigan State University has been a priority for one Macomb church’s ministry. Shirley Leidecker serves as ...