AMERICA JOINS THE RESOLUTION OF PRAYER PROJECT

America Joins the Resolution of Prayer Project

Introduction

Every localized place of adoration comprised by a delegate or tourist at General Synod 2009, Grand Rapids, MI, can be engaged in a exceptional Covenant of Prayer Partnership opportunity. By organising a plea and a quilted fabric candle piece of cloth, the localized place of adoration will share them with every individual at General Synod and, in specific, with another localized UCC church. Prayer partnerships will happen between the diverse localized place of adoration families as the prayers and candle pieces of cloth are swapped before General Synod ends.

While infantry servicemembers await deployment, some will find inspiration in their mailbox, courtesy of "Project Prayer Flag," a grassroots assembly that drives servicemembers pouch banners and notes of plea and encouragement.Although days of prayer and reflection have been named by Congress and the President for many years, in most cases these involved a particular happening, such as celebrating the end of the Revolutionary War or prayers for peace throughout wartime. The Continental Congress asked for guidance in forming a nation in 1775; in 1863, President Lincoln sought a day of “fasting and prayer” throughout the Civil War; and throughout World War II, President Roosevelt directed Christians in prayer throughout his radio addresses.However, presidents have disagreed on the desirability of national days of prayer: Thomas Jefferson, in an 1808 note to the Reverend Samuel Miller, wrote “"Fasting and prayer are religious exercises; the enjoining them an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to work out for itself the time for these exercises, and the objects proper for them, according to their own particular tenets; and right can not ever be safer than in their hands, where the Constitution has deposited it." (Miller,2006) In James Madison's 1817 Detached Memoranda, he expressed doubts about national days of prayer, as “they seem to imply and certainly nourish the erroneous idea of a national religion.”

Discussion

Project Prayer Flag is a constituent of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, which showcases Americans' efforts to support servicemembers and their families. It's not significant how Americans support the armies as long as they support them, said Shawn Black, the group's founder. The left Army airborne veteran commenced the assembly in 2002 with his wife, Angelica, a left 26-year Marine Corps veteran."It's about nurturing and distributing the presents that each of us has and giving to the ...