Members of five major San Gabriel Valley faith traditions will join in a public evening service celebrating the National Day of Prayer at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 6, at Santa Anita Church, 226 West Colorado Boulevard.
The event is being presented by the Arcadia Interfaith Action Group, a consortium of leaders from some twenty faith organizations in the area.
This year’s service, themed ” Prayer for Times Such as These,” will be the only San Gabriel Valley interfaith observance at which Baha’is, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and Muslims join in celebrating the shared beliefs and values that unite them as Americans. During the evening, each faith will share a small part of its practices to help attendees realize that there are more similarities than differences among them.
The National Day of Prayer was established in 1952, when the US Congress designated the first Thursday in May as a time for all Americans, regardless of their faiths, to come together and pray in their own ways.
All monies contributed to the evening’s offering will go to local assistance agencies in the area, including Foothill Unity Center, which in the past year distributed nearly 4,000,000 pounds of food to 3,974 unduplicated very low-income families in eight San Gabriel Valley cities.
For further information on the Arcadia National Day of Prayer, call (626) 447-8053.