60th Annual Observance of National Day of Prayer
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
May 8, 2011
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By: Julie McCallum,
Senior Staff

How Great Is Our God
May 5th marked National Day of Prayer.
Area Church Representatives gathered with the community for the 60th Annual Observance of National Prayer Day.
Members of Bay Valley Christian Church, Lighthouse Free Methodist Church, Aglow International, New Life Missionary Church, Fraser Road Church of God, In His Presence Ministries, Bay City Wesleyan Church were in attendance.
Prayer has always been used in this country for guidance, protection and strength-even before we were a nation or a handful of colonies. The Pilgrims at Plymouth relied on prayer during their first and darkest winter. Our founding fathers also called for prayer during the Constitutional Congress. In their eyes, our recently created nation and freedoms were a direct gift from God. And being a gift from God, there was only one way to insure protection-through prayer.
> The ceremony was held at the Bay County building located at Madison and Center Avenue Streets in Downtown Bay City.
"Fasting and prayer are religious exercises; the enjoining them an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the time for these exercises and the objects proper for them, according th their own particular tenets; and right can never be safer than in their hands, where the Constitution has deposited it." ~ Thomas Jefferson 1808
(Above) Pastor Patty Mudd, Bay Calley Christian Church, Past John Leitner, Bay City River of Life Church, Pastor Loyd Ayers, Lighthouse Free Methodist Church
"I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, My God, In whom I trust ~ PSALM 91:2
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