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| Each of the participants will receive a set of prayer beads |
When the 864 delegates arrive for the 2016 United Methodist General Conference, each one of them comes blanketed in prayer.
From every corner of the world, people are speaking their names and praying for The United Methodist Church as the denomination’s top policy-making body prepares to meet at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland on May 10-20.
In addition to stirring music, inspiring sermons and those once-every-four-years opportunities to spend time with brothers and sisters living in distant places, delegates will spend long hours in debates that could dramatically change the laws of the church.
Often, the proceedings stop for a word of prayer when things get too heated.
Before all that begins, the Rev. Tom Albin, dean of The Upper Room Chapel, invites all United Methodists to prepare and blanket the entire proceeding with intentional prayer.
All are welcome to join the prayer community created for General Conference at www.60daysofprayer.org.
Read more at this link.
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