interview-delightful and insightful novel about a women‘s knitting circle

When the pastor tells the Prayer Shawl kittens Club they must move out of the church chapel and find a place to meet while it's being renovated, the leader is furious. Off they go to a local coffee shop. And a wonderful thing happens: they begin to meet people they would never normally meet, pray for them and care for them. When they are forced to move by a weirdly-unpleasant manager, their new location makes them even more visible and in a better location to minister to the young people who normally would not feel welcome around "churchy people". To the delight of the pastor (who prayed this would happen) and the knitters (who didn't expect it but are pleased at the outreach), it results in new young visitors to their dying congregation. Set at Christmas time in a  busy mall, it's a powerful story of redemption and restoration.