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News Report on National Prayer Rallies

 

September 7, 2003 was truly a significant day in this nation. CTV News Anchor Sandy Renaldo aptly stated in her introduction to her news segment on the prayer rallies Sunday night, “The sleeping giant is awake.”

According to reports received so far, we estimate:

  • Between 80,000 and 100,000 Canadians joined in prayer for our political leaders, and for the sanctity of marriage.

  • Approximately 1000 Canadian clergy, representing many different denominations, provided spiritual and prayer leadership.

  • 220 ridings had officially organized prayer rallies. Some ridings with no official organization still had people showing up to pray.

Also, churches in many towns across Canada where the MP constituency office was located too far to travel, held their own local prayer services.

This is exciting, significant and powerful. The Bible promises, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face…then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” Jesus also promised, For where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Never before has an event such as this taken place in Canada’s history. Never before have such a large gathering of God’s people from coast to coast united together to pray. I truly believe that this national wave of prayer has forever altered the course of this nation– for good.

We realized that due to the huge influx of e-mails we are receiving and limited resources, it will not be possible to upload daily reports of a riding-by-riding tally of the numbers that gathered to pray. However, our organizer is keeping a tally, and based on reports received so far, we estimate that between 80,000 and 100,000 gathered to pray.

Some ridings drew as many as 5000 participants. Even the small town of Medicine Hat, Alberta, reported 1000 people joining together to pray.

Please see the Photo Gallery on this website for pix of some of the prayer rallies. If you have one or two good quality digital pictures from your prayer rally, please email to info@familyaction.org. (please do not send more than 2 pictures).

CFAC will be producing a collage of photos in our next newsletter, including some of the awesome reports from across the nation.

Here are more good news reports:

  • On Saturday, September 6, the National Post published a full-page (page A5) announcement of the rallies, including a declaration of marriage for all to see.

  • Toronto’s largest radio news station made announcements in their news segment about the prayer rallies every hour throughout the day on Saturday.

  • Many other news agencies announced the rallies.

  • The Sanctity of Marriage website (www.sanctityofmarriage.ca) had as many as 10,000 visits in one day. As of September 9, there were 77,500 visits.

  • Approximately 220 of the 301 ridings had people like you volunteering to lead and organize.

And all this was orchestrated in just 4 weeks, when many people were away on holidays.

Does anyone not think that God orchestrated all of this?

On behalf of the organizers in our Toronto and Calgary offices, we want to firstly, give thanks and praise to God. Secondly, we want to thank all of you for your hard work and dedication in organizing and leading the prayer rallies in your riding.

Also, a special thanks to the Canadian clergy who led the rallies. We were especially excited to hear about clergy from different denominations joining together to lead their local prayer rallies. It is exciting to see God’s people uniting on this issue.

Please continue to pray for the following:

a) The Official Opposition Party will introduce a motion on marriage (likely during the first week of Parliament’s fall session), commencing September 15. Please pray that MPs of all parties will vote to use all necessary measures to protect marriage.
b) Bill C-250 (a bill which would seriously erode freedom of speech and freedom of religion) will also likely be voted on during the first week or two of the fall session. If you have not done so already, please call your MP and ask them to vote against Bill C-250 (it is especially crucial that Ontarians call their Liberal MPs.) For more information on Bill C-250, see www.familyaction.org

Again, our heartfelt thanks for all your dedication. Watch www.sanctityofmarriage.ca for further updates on marriage.

Brian Rushfeldt, Calgary
Dr. Charles McVety, Toronto

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