To New Covenant and the Prayer Blanket Ministry,

I picked up a prayer blanket at the church to take to my college roommate who had been hospitalized while battling breast cancer. In the 5 years since she had received the bad news she had been hospitalized only one other time, and that was for surgery to try and remove her cancer.

We traveled to Ft. Worth to see her because we knew that this was not good news for her to be in the hospital.

I took the prayer blanket to her and she was wrapped with the blanket that evening. For her last 3 weeks the prayer blanket enveloped her with God’s love and she found such peace and comfort from it. It became a symbol of all the love and prayers that were surrounding her.

She fought very hard to stay alive. Her husband and 2 daughters never left her side. After struggling and fighting and being in a coma for the last week of her life, she opened her eyes to her family with a glow and radiance they had never seen.  She smiled and lovingly looked at each one of them with tears in her eyes.  She kissed her husband and took her last breath. 

Her family has received so much comfort from the blanket. The night she died her husband entered their bedroom and fell asleep with the prayer blanket wrapped around his shoulders. One day, when her two daughters bring her grandchildren home from the hospital, they plan to wrap them in that blanket as a symbol of their sweet grandmothers' love - a love they didn't get to know, but will be able to feel all around them.

Thank you so much for providing such a powerful example of God's love; something felt and shared by one very ill woman and her family during their darkest and yet brightest days. Your love and prayers will have an impact on the next generation of her family, as it has had on the family and friends who have known and loved her.

Thank you again for sharing God's love, and for what you do every day.

In Christ's love,
Peggy Thompson

Dear Anne:

We took one of your prayer blankets to Florida to give to a 97 year-old lady. She was so glad to receive it. She read the prayer out loud, smiling all the time. When she took a nap, she used it. It was big enough to cover her. Then she put it on her chair, folded with the prayer showing. Needless to say, she really liked the blanket. Thanks so much for making these special blankets.

Anna Elam

Dear Anne,

I'd like to thank you all for your prayers for my dad in Ohio. I'm thankful that I was able to be there with family for the two weeks prior to his death. Again, thank you for all your prayers for him. I am also thankful that my husband, Dodie, stopped by the church and picked up a prayer blanket for my dad. I got it in time to place it over him his last two days. I'm so grateful to be part of a praying church. And I just can't imagine life without my faith in Jesus. He truly is our hope and our strength. God bless each one of you.

Debi Collett

Dear Anne,

Thank you so much for the knitted lap piece. I've become like Linus in the comics, who carries his blanket around. I keep it with me in my lap all the time. I really do enjoy having it. (This note is from the lady who would not let her daughter wash the blanket). She was buried with it covering her and the prayer patch was placed in her hand.