PROCLAIM LIBERTY - National Day Of Prayer Celebrated

(05/07/2004)

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, " 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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