Pastor Jim Skedel leads a prayer to God to help our leaders
CCCOA Choir sings for ceremony
Lunch donations went to Community Food Bank
Pastor Mary Zimmer says "Let Freedom Ring"
"Let Freedom Ring,"based on Leviticus 25:10,
"â¦proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants," was the theme of
the 53rd National Day of Prayer held in front of the Calhoun courthouse
yesterday.
The event was sponsored by the Minnie Hamilton Volunteer Chaplain's
Association.
Pastor Mary Zimmer said "The vision of the theme is to encourage believers to
take advantage of their
constitutional rights to gather, worship and pray."
"We are one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We have the freedom to
gather, the freedom to worship and the freedom to pray. Therefore, let
freedom ring!" she said.
The CCCOA choir sang for the event and food was served by volunteers with all
proceeds going to the Community Food Bank at
the First Baptist Church in Grantsville.
"We will lift up the leaders
of our country, state, county and city in prayer; our children and their
teachers; our peace officers, those serving the military and the veterans who
have sacrificed to serve our nation."
The National Day of Prayer has been set aside for a time of prayer since 1775. It
began when the Continental Congress designated a time for prayer in forming a
new
nation. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln called for such a day.
Officially, the
National Day of Prayer was established as an annual event by an act of
Congress in 1952 and was signed into law by President Truman. President
Reagan amended the law in 1988, designating the first Thursday of May each
year as the National Day of Prayer.
Thousands of Americans across the
nation participated across denominational differences in a spirit of unity and
power.
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