Events are separate, prayer is united
The Kauai Island Ministries and Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai would like the island to know that we pray united to bless America in our separate events for the National Day of Prayer.
KIM scheduled the event for both of us with the Mayor’s Office. They set up the seats, provide the sound system, the tent over the Rotunda stage, and IROK helps with the set up. Both groups are invited to each others’ events.
The theme for this year’s Day of Prayer is unity. Unity doesn’t mean sameness. It mean togetherness or oneness in principle. That principle is that we have a Divine Creator who loves us, and responds to us for the good of all.
We invite you to come to one, or the other’s event, or come to both.
In addition, Kauai Island Ministries has been asked by the National Day of Prayer Headquarters to close the National Day of Prayer with worship at sunset at 6 p.m. May 3 at Poipu Beach Park — From Maine at Sunrise to Kauai at Sunset — all are invited to this historic event.
Annaleah Atkinson, IROK Committee member
Dely Sasaki, KIM
Why wouldn’t every Christian be at National Day of Prayer?
May 3, 2018 is the day our government has declared our National Day of Prayer. Why wouldn’t every American believer be there? Why, in this country where …
w We have taken prayer out of our schools.
w People are trying to eliminate prayer in our sporting events and our government activities.
w The Ten Commandments are no longer wanted in our courthouses and where the Bible is no longer seen as a light on our path and a lamp to our feet.
w We kneel in protest during our National Anthem but are discouraged from kneeling in prayer.
w The family is no longer sacred and children are bullied because of their Christian faith.
w People are considered just another animal instead of the children of God.
Why wouldn’t this be the biggest day on our calendar? What event on our calendar could possibly be more important than the only day each year our government recognizes as a day for us to assemble to pray?
What is more important than exercising a right that is aggressively being attacked and
What will we say to God when, because of lack of participation, this right is taken away by the very government we should be praying for?
I hope the Christians on Kaua’ will be able to answer these questions. When we stand before our Lord, I have a feeling these questions will be asked again.
Ezekiel 22:30: “So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.”
May we always stand in the gap for our people and our nation.
Steven Franks, pastor, King’s Chapel
Feel free to pray to whichever God makes you happy… in the privacy of you own home, structure or particular personal space. That way everyone can be free to practice their religious beliefs the way they see fit. You have a Chapel … do your panhandling there and be happy
Dear Pastor Franks,
Every Christian is on a personal journey towards the impossible destination of Christ’s perfection.
We are at many different waypoints; but, all on the same journey. Some of us have already found the Road to Emmaus and are well along. We may have journeyed past the large gathering sites.
Pastor Franks, you seem to have taken an early side trip to the right wing evangelical politics of false victimization and Roy Moore’s 10 commandment monument. Pastor, please get back on track. You see through a glass less darkly when you remove the mud!
Mr Franks the USA is NOT a Christian country. Please leave religion – any and all religion – out of the public debate.
Keep all religions out of my government and put it back in the churches and keep it there.
Also you might try reading about Jesus. From all I have read and heard Jesus was a humble man, unlike these letter writers.