The Yazoo City Ministerial Association will be hosting several prayer gatherings over the next eights months within the community.
Ten churches are behind this recent campaign called Pray Yazoo to gather once a month and pray for the city and the nation.
“They are based upon the promise of God given to His people in 2 Chronicles 7:14,” said Rev. George Woodliff, with the association. “‘If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.’”
The next gathering will be held on Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, located at 231 N. Washington St.
The gatherings are anticipated to last for about an hour.
“Christians at all times are exhorted to “persevere in prayer’ (Romans 12:12) and to ‘pray without ceasing’ (1 Thessalonians 5:17),” Woodliff said. “Yet there are times in the life of a city and nation when the injunction to pray becomes urgent and compelling. This is such a time.”
Woodliff said marriages continue to fall apart. Children are growing up without fathers, sometimes without mothers.
“Schools are struggling,” he added. “Racial tensions are high. Many streets are unsafe.”
Woodliff said political and economic solutions can only go so far.
“These are fundamentally spiritual problems, which only God can solve,” he said. “Without His help, things will continue to deteriorate.”
The Yazoo Ministerial Association encourages all citizens to gather together in prayer during these meetings.
“Now is the time for the Body of Christ to come together and to take God at His word,” Woodliff said. “Do we really believe that if we cry out to Him, He will heal our land? There is only one way to find out.”
