Flash forward 29 years and the Hansons’ charitable effort has grown tremendously. Praying Hands occupies 40 acres south of Parker with a second campus set to expand in 2017, Shirley said.

A passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that took a terrifying plunge near Hawaii described how the ordeal felt like a “roller coaster” — and said he and his wife “were praying for a ...

She put her hands together near the clunky silver cross on her chest, showing us how we would walk up the aisle. The praying hands were part of the show, the physical proof that we were holy and ...