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A local band serenades Gathering participants as they munch sandwiches, drink lemonade and meet ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson during the opening Triennial Gathering reception. TL
A local band serenades Gathering participants as they munch sandwiches, drink lemonade and meet ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson during the opening Triennial Gathering reception. TL
![Barbara O'Keefe, Alexandria, Va., has a long line of prayer shawls behind her. In her lifetime, she's knitted more than 100. "I've given them to speakers at our [synodical] women's gatherings, to people who are sick and to people celebrating happy occasions," O'Keefe said at the shawl display at Camp Dianoigo. "The pattern I use is a Trinity of stitches. Three stitches you knit; three stitches you purl. I tell people to use it in times of happiness and sadness." O'Keefe contributed some of these shawls, which will be distributed to ministries and communities in the Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod. EH](https://photos.smugmug.com/8thTriennialGathering/Slideshow-Gathering/i-fDpmjMn/0/f1749377/Ti/exhibit_prayershawls_barbaraokeefe-Ti.jpg)
