aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Praying to lower gas prices
Ann wondered was it a joke?
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI)—A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps.
Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can’t attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established.
In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are “overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis.”
They usually pray and worship inside the confines of their own church, asking God for his wisdom and intervention. But today they took their prayers across the street from a gas station in the nation’s capital and asked God to lower the rising gasoline prices that have hit the wallets of Americans all across the country. [...]
The prayer service was organized by PrayLive, a group that bills itself as a 24-hour prayer line and e-church. The group brought together ministers from the Washington, D.C., area as well as concerned citizens. They say they’re sick of the rising gas prices and believe it’s time to ask God to step in.
