Creating the Mystery Knitting Fellowship
The "Creating the Mystery Knitting Fellowship" meets each Monday morning at 10:00 in UL6.
The Prayer Shawl Ministry at North Christian Church began in the Summer of 2006, an inspiration from God.
The ministry used the book "Knitting Into the Mystery" by Susan S. Izard and Susan S. Jorgensen, (2003) as a reference. From the book, pages 14-16:
"Our experience of the power of the Prayer Shawl Ministry is an experience of the living God.
We are engaging in a simple act of compassion that God is calling us to.
Our knitting weaves us, our hearts and souls into the truth of God's love.
God's compassion has a life of its own. By giving away the Shawls, we are being swept up into God's energy without even knowing it was happening. It is delightful to watch love unfold, to let forgiveness melt our hearts, to laugh at the joy being shared and to knit into the mystery."
Psalms 139:13-14 says "You created my inmost self, knit me together in my Mother's womb. For so many marvels I thank you; a wonder am I, and all your works are wonders."
Since its inception, more than 50 individual shawls have been dedicated and presented to persons in need of comfort.
Nine additional Linus's Blankets were sent to Greensboro, North Carolina
Fifteen additional Baby Blankets were sent to Haiti.
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In 2007, four North Christian Church members traveled to Machakos, Kenya to help construct a church building for the Katisaa African Inland Church. During that mission trip, a participant in the Knitting the Mystery fellowship noticed some of the church women knitting. On a return trip two years later, a Knitting Fellowship was nurtured among the AIC Katisaa women. The picture to the left shows several of the women knitting shawls. For more information about the Katisaa African Inland Church, click here. |