Crawford County Prayer Walks

A colleague of mine, Pastor Irwin Bales (St. Francisville, IL Free Methodist Church) sent me an email last Sunday; 

A school in TX is being sued because they have allowed people from the community to go onto the school grounds on Saturday before school starts and pray for the school for the coming academic year. The school is standing their grounds: in is not school sponsored and the building is not open. 

I think we should respond by getting our communities together and pray also for our schools, at our schools, on the Saturday mornings before the beginning of the school year at our local schools.

With no mention of this email to my wife, Kim mentioned to me on Sunday afternoon that several of our friends from a church we previous served with in Flora, IN were gathering at the schools - for the second year - to pray days before the children begin the school year. 

Sunday evening I received a facebook message from a friend in Robinson, IL (Brent Urfer) stating that he felt a call to pray for our children and teens prior to the start of the school year and that he was working to organize prayer walks throughout Crawford County to happen on the school grounds. 

Today I received the following email from my friend with details of the Crawford County prayer walks. 

We will not be using church associated vans. We will need to drive cars. We will meet briefly for 5 minutes or less at each place… then divide in groups of 2-3 people, we will be walking like many other people do using the sidewalks, tracks, etc. to do our praying. A signal will be given to move on. We may also stop at some churches along the way, and process as well as develop strategy for the next place.  

Saturday, August 10: New Hebron, Palestine, Hutsonville, Oblong  

Saturday, August 17: Oblong Christian Children’s Home, Robinson, LTC 

We will debrief for the entire event within one week after the meeting on the 17^th. That date, time, and meeting place will be decided before the end of the walk on the 17^th.

 If you are interested in being involved either of these prayer walks and you are available on the dates noted above, please get in contact with me as soon as possible.