The Prayer Shawl Ministry of Blue Ridge
is made up of caring volunteers who knit and crochet shawls with love and prayers in their hearts and in their hands.

Completed shawls are given to those who are in need of comfort.

For more information, please contact Sandy McConnell at 816-224-4603

 If you are aware of someone who would benefit from having a prayer filled shawl, please contact the Church office at 816-353-1435 or email the church at brumc@blueridgechurch.org and and you will be put in touch with a member of our Pastoral Staff or one of our Prayer Shawl Ministry Lay Leaders.

You created every part of me, knitting me in my Mother’s womb.

For such handiwork, I praise you. Awesome this great wonder!”     Psalm 139:13-14

Our shawls consist of much more than simply a beautiful arrangement of yarn.  Knitted or crocheted into each are the prayers, love, and compassion of the shawl’s creator.  Symbolic of the blanket of grace that God offers each of us, they are intended to provide comfort, hope, and peace to those who are suffering.

About the Shawls

The Prayer Shawl ministry of Blue Ridge combines knitting, crocheting and praying, as volunteers make beautiful shawls with love and care. This simple act of knitting allows them to witness God’s mysterious love in a very tangible, concrete form.

 In 1998, Janet Bristow and Victoria Galo, two graduates of the 1997 Women's Leadership Institute at The Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut gave birth to a ministry as a result of their experience in this program of applied Feminist Spirituality under the direction of Professor Miriam Therese Winter, MMS.

Care and the love of knitting (and crochet) have been combined into a prayerful ministry that reaches out to those in need of comfort and solace. Many blessings are knitted into every shawl.  The knitter begins each shawl with prayers for the recipient.

Prayers are continued throughout the creation of the shawl. When the shawl is completed it is offered prayers by members of the church before being sent along its way.  As this gift has been sent along, some recipients have continued the kindness by making one themselves and passing it on to someone in need.  Thus, the blessing is rippled from person to person, with both the giver and receiver feeling the unconditional embrace of a sheltering, mothering God!

Besides knit and crochet; the shawls can be woven, sewn, quilted, machine knitted, etc.

If you would like to help this ministry, monetary donations or gift cards for Hobby Lobby, Jo Ann Fabrics or other yarn supply shops would be appreciated. You may drop your donations in the offering plate at a worship service or deliver to the church office.