National Day of Prayer will take place Thursday, May 4. This year’s theme is “For Your Great Name’s Sake! Hear us …Forgive us …Heal us!”, which is taken from Daniel 9:19.
“We all believe that when God’s people gather for fervent prayer and worship that God always hears and answers!” states Pastor Gary Schmitz, executive director of the Citywide Prayer Movement in Kansas City. “Jeremiah 33:3 is the invitation from heaven: ’Call to Me and I will answer….’ Could the promise and power of prayer be more clear than that?”
Schmitz says that The times we live in are surely desperate for an outpouring of God’s presence on our cities and communities and he encourages all believers to find an event near them to attend.
Times and locations are listed below.
The Greater Kansas City event will assemble at noon on the south side of City Hall, 414 E. 12th Street, to honor the Lord and seek His mercy for the city, state and nation. Corporate prayers will be led by civic leaders for their areas of service. The main event in Kansas will be at the Kansas State Capitol. Numerous other events are planned are being hosted by churches across the region. See the list below.
The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation. It was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman.
The NDP Task Force is a privately funded organization whose purpose is to encourage participation on the National Day of Prayer. It exists to communicate with every individual the need for personal repentance and prayer and to mobilize the Christian community to intercede for America’s leaders and its families. The Task Force represents a Judeo-Christian expression of the national observance, based on our understanding that this country was birthed in prayer and in reverence for the God of the Bible.
Presidents going back to our Founding Fathers have expressed the importance of prayer. In 1808, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “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 to their own particular tenets; and right can never be safer than in their hands, where the Constitution has deposited it.”
Topeka Area Events
Kansas State Capitol
Downtown Topeka
First floor rotunda. Enter Capitol building on north side.
12-1 p.m.
Avondale East NET Center
455 SE Golf Park Blvd.,
Topeka
6:30 p.m.
Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church
17535 Say Road, is located ½ mile north of the intersection of Highways 99 and 24.
Wamego, Kan.
7:00 p.m.
Kansas City Area Events
Colonial Presbyterian Church
9500 Wornall
Kansas City, MO 64114
7:00 a.m. Fellowship / Light Breakfast
7:30 a.m. Worship and Prayer
Platte City United Methodist Church
14040 State Hwy
Platte City, MO 64079
7:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Northland Kansas City
Harmony Vineyard Church
600 NE 46th Street
(Near N. Oak Trfwy and I-29)
Kansas City, MO 64116
7:00 p.m.
Johnson County Courthouse Gazebo
Kansas Street at E. Santa Fe
Olathe, KS 66061
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Leawood City Hall
4800 Town Center Drive
Leawood, KS 66211
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Lee’s Summit City Hall Patio
220 SE Green Street
Lee’s Summit, MO 64063
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Kansas City, MO City Hall
414 E 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64106
Noon – 2:00 p.m.
City Union Mission Men’s Center Chapel
1108 E. 10th St. (10th and Troost)
Kansas City, MO 64106
12:50 – 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday Evening May 3 Service
Church on the Rock
1700 SW Market Street
Lee’s Summit, MO 64082
7:00 p.m.
–By Dwight Widaman
