What Is a Prayer Quilt? Can you touch a prayer? Can you pull it close and feel its comfort? You can if it's 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. Quilts are prayed over and tied before and after both worship services twice per month. As each knot is tied, a silent prayer is offered for someone in special need -- someone who has asked us to pray for him or her. The quilt is then given to that person.

What makes each quilt 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.

Through Prayers & Squares International, 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. 

To help with or support this ministry:Pray for the recipients of the quilts and pray for the Prayer Quilt Ministry.

• Tie a square knot on a quilt.
• Attend a Prayer Quilt meeting -- third Tuesdays, 7 p.m., D141 
• Work on quilts at home. (Wash, iron fabric, cut patterns, sew pieces together)
• To request a quilt or learn more about the ministry, call the SERVE team, 770.261.1767.