Counting Prayers

Want to do something simple yet profound in the effort to eradicate extreme poverty and to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals. Go to Counting Prayers at www.countingprayers.org and pledge to say the following prayer every day:

"The world has the means to end extreme poverty. We pray that we will have the will."

This prayer ministry began in September at St. Paul's Chapel (Episcopal) in New York. St. Paul's is best known for the role that it played after 9/11. It is located at "Ground Zero" and became a house of prayer and support for the firemen, police officers, and other support persons who worked the site. The goal is to rally sufficient support that this simple prayer is said at least one billion times (which happens to be the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide).

We have also signed the pledge as a congregation and will include this prayer during the Prayers of the People each Sunday.

As of this writing , the prayer count is at 129,515. Lets work together to increase this number by praying that God will bless the efforts of all those who are working to eradicate extreme poverty!