On Thursday, Americans across the nation will gather in churches, local businesses, the steps of city halls, schools, neighborhoods and public gathering places for a day of public prayer.
The National Day of Prayer will be observed again in Bradford at a prayer event sponsored by the Bradford Area Ministerial Alliance and Destinations Bradford. The public is invited to join in the observance at noon on Thursday in Veterans Square.
“We tend to forget that Jesus didn’t say we would be known by our creeds or by our knowledge or how much we know about the Bible –– He said we would be known only by our love,” Dr. Ronnie Floyd said when revealing the 2019 theme at a leadership summit last fall. “And love has been painfully absent in America in so many ways.”
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the president of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, which mobilizes Americans to participate in prayer gatherings on the day of the observance. On Thursday evening, Floyd will lead the National Observance, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. In attendance will be several members of Congress as well as hundreds of American faith leaders. The observance will bring together a multiethnic, cross-denominational coalition of participants.
In 2018, an estimated 50,000 gatherings across all 50 states were held on the National Day of Prayer. More than 1 million people from 38 countries viewed the broadcast of the National Observance. The 2018 theme, “Pray for America —Unity” went viral and trended No. 1 nationwide on Twitter throughout the day.
