Prayer Bear Ministry
By clicking on the link below you will find how the prayer bears came to be a
ministry of Trinity United Methodist Church:
Busy Season for Prayer Bear Ministry!!!
More than 200 bears, dressed in camouflage wearing hand knitted camouflage scarves sat proudly at the alter of Trinity United Methodist Church in Bluefield on November 23 to receive a special blessing from the congregation to carry with them to the battlefields in Iraq. The Prayer Bear “cutters, sewers and stuffers” of Trinity, with the help of many “friends of Trinity” completed more than 200 Prayer Bears to be presented to the 150th HHT Army National Guard Unit that is stationed in Bluewell. The group will report to active duty on December 1 to prepare for deployment to Iraq early in 2009. Our own Nicholas Lawrence is a member of this unit. It is impossible to name all those who worked diligently to complete this project, but special thanks goes the Family Readiness Group of the National Guards and the Bluewell Methodist Church Quilters. Rev. David Hall of Bland Street Methodist Church and our pastor, Rev. Susan Rector, joined the others in knitting the scarves. Some of the bears may remain with the families as a reminder that our prayers are with their loved ones for their safe return; the soldiers may tuck the scarf away in their luggage to remind them of God’s love and the many people praying for them here at home.
To read article from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph click on link below:
