What is a Prayer Quilt?
Can you touch a prayer? Can you pull it close and feel its comfort?
You can if it’s part of a prayer quilt.
The idea behind these quilts is simple, yet powerful. A heavy thread
is used to take stitches through the quilt layers, and the ends are left
free to be tied with a square knot. As each knot is tied, a silent prayer is
offered for someone in special need – someone who has asked us to
pray for them. The quilt is then given to that person. Hence, the person
is covered in prayer. What makes each quilt so special is not the pattern,
color, or workmanship, but the fact that prayer is symbolically tied into each one.
These comforters are a statement of faith, and a testimony to our belief in God
and in the power of prayer.
Prayers & Squares, The Prayer Quilt Ministry, began in 1992 at Hope United
Methodist Church in San Diego, California. Since then, the ministry has expanded
to include chapters in churches of many different denominations across the country
and in Australia and the Marshall Islands.
Through Prayers & Squares, thousands of quilts have been distributed, each a special gift
of love. They have been made for sick babies, for cancer and AIDS patients, for
adults and children facing surgery or difficult family situations – for many reasons,
but each for someone in special need of prayer.
Would you like to learn more about how you can help with or support this
Ministry? Here’s what you can do:
Contact Liz Buchanan, 117, Hall St. Hazard, KY 47101, telephone phone: 436-6247.
OR
Come to one of our meetings at the Bobby Davis Park Museum at noon on
Thursdays. Another session will be available in the future. (We are always in
need of sheets to back a quilt or any stray cotton fabric you may have around
the house.)