Valley Center Christian Church
P.O. Box 158
1801 E 5th Street
Valley Center, KS 67147
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For Immediate Release
April 30, Day of Fasting and Prayer
Valley Center, KS-(Feb.8, 2011) Valley Center Christian Church will observe a corporate day of fasting and prayer for our Community and our Nation on Saturday, April 30. The church will meet for a time of prayer at 1801 E 5th St, Valley Center, KS at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend as we plead with God for the renewal of our nation. We encourage local Christians to join us, and pray that Christian churches across the nation will join us in prayer in their own places of worship.
Abraham Lincoln wrote an address to the nation during the Civil War that was at least as important as the Gettysburg Address. The little known document was his proclamation for a national fast-day, by which he did designate and set apart Thursday the 30th day of April 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. As you read the following proclamation, may the Lord reveal to your heart how much more, we as a nation, need to humble ourselves before God. Abraham Lincoln wrote:
“It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
“The awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people.
“Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
“It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”[1]
For more information: Contact Dr. Chuck Terrill, 316-706-9661 316-706-9661
[1]Tan, Paul Lee: Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations : A Treasury of Illustrations, Anecdotes, Facts and Quotations for Pastors, Teachers and Christian Workers. Garland TX : Bible Communications, 1996, c1979
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