**Scarf Bomb Project**

With the help of Prayer Shawl and the Local Outreach team, the ***Mission Team*** is kicking off the second annual all-congregation scarf bomb activity this month. Let’s try to outdo last year’s count of 180 scarves!
Organizations across the country have engaged in this activity to aid the homeless during the winter months. The idea is to knit, crochet, and weave, scarves, mittens, and hats. These items will be free for the taking and left in locales where the homeless gather. A cloth tag identifying it as a gift from the FPC will be attached. The goal is to make these items available for the Grow Ogden workers first, then broaden our giving to other parts of Ogden.
Starting now, the plan is to learn how to knit, crochet, or weave during Sunday fellowships. The Prayer Shawl team will assist. For those who already know how, you can begin now to make scarves, hats, mittens, whatever you like. The Mission Team will provide yarn.
Monetary donations for yarn are also welcome.

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.

Intentions continued throughout the creation of the shawl. When the shawl is complete it is offered a final ritual before being sent along its way.

Shawls are gifted to individuals: undergoing medical procedures; as a comfort after a loss, during bereavement, for commitment or marriage ceremonies, for childbirth, as a bridal shower gift; during an illness and recovery; or ministering to others.

"Shawls ... made for centuries universal and embracing, symbolic of an inclusive,

unconditionally loving God. They wrap, enfold, comfort, cover, give solace, mother, hug,

shelter and beautify. Those who have received these shawls have been uplifted and affirmed, as if given wings to fly above their troubles…”

Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every Wednesday in Geneva Hall from 1 pm to 3 pm. Women from three different churches participate. This year we are busy making scarves for the Scarf Bomb event that the Mission Team was leading. We have all the colors of the rainbow being knitted and crocheted. Since our inception, over 1000 shawls, lap robes, and baby blankets have been made.