The Amarillo Community Prayer breakfast celebrates its 33rd year with over 900 in attendance
Over 900 community members turned out early Tuesday morning for the annual Community Prayer Breakfast held at the Amarillo Civic Center.
The breakfast focuses on community and the impact of prayer on its residents and leaders across the nation. This year’s event was the 33rd iteration of the community gathering for prayer.
At the event, a collaboration from the Amarillo, Caprock, Palo Duro and Tascosa High School Choirs, the sand the national anthem as a combined Amarillo ISD JROTC colorguard presented the colors to those in attendance. Students from the area high schools also read passages from the Bible and gave a future perspective at the breakfast.
Mary Bralley, a committee member of the Community Prayer Breakfast, spoke about community support for the event.
“It is amazing to have about 900 people get up early this morning and pray.,” Bralley said. “We are here to pray for our city, our state and our leaders on a national level. We are just getting together and getting the day off good as we go into the Thanksgiving holiday.”
She said that pre-covid the group had over 1,200 people attending.
Asked about the event's goal, they just want more people to come together for prayer.
“We really want more people to come out and attend,” Bralley said. “We just want to unify people in prayer and get together as a community.”
Bralley said what makes her event unique from many similar events is that this event is all about prayer and the group really prays together and goes through the word of God rather than just a meet-up.
“People have told me that our event is different than others because we actually pray; we go through a whole section where we just pray together and apparently that's not the norm but that's how we do it. Everybody that comes loves it," she said.
Amarillo Mayor Ginger Nelson was on hand to welcome attendees to the event. As she started her welcome, she spoke about the importance of her faith in her role in the city and said it was her honor to be a part of the event.
This year’s guest speaker was an evangelist and author Josh McDowell who spoke for over 45 minutes about faith issues facing parents today and the impact of easily accessible porn and its influence on the on today’s youth. During his speech, he called it the greatest problem facing children at the current time.
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