Thanks to a Vermont team member for submitting today’s featured hobby!
Knitting is a craft over a thousand years old. Likely originating in the Middle East, trade routes carried knitting to Europe, where it gained popularity during the Middle Ages. Creating articles that provided both needed warmth and an outlet for artistic expression, knitting has continued to be a favorite pastime through the centuries.
From bone, wood, ivory, copper, aluminum, or plastic, various materials have been used for knitting needles. Early yarns were primarily from wool, though cotton or even silk was used at times. Today’s yarns feature both natural and synthetic fibers.
It is estimated that around 50 million people around the world knit or crochet. (Crocheting is similar to knitting, but uses only one shorter hooked needle, as compared to the two long knitting needles.) This number translates to about 1 in every 161 people worldwide who knit or crochet. Yarn arts are sometimes taught in groups like 4-H clubs, and sometimes just passed down from generation to generation in the home setting.
1. Pray for 50 of those 50 million knitters / crocheters who do not know Jesus to enter a personal relationship with Him before the end of the summer.
2. Sometimes in American culture today, young people grow up without learning any practical hands-on skills. Pray for Christian parents and grandparents to see the value of passing on homemaking skills, and be intentional in doing so with their children.
3. Pray for someone who does not know his or her birth parents, and so struggles with identity and worth issues, to discover the truth that ultimately, God is the Creator Who oversaw their development in utero, as Psalm 139:13-18 beautifully describes.
John 7:37-38
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