Upcoming Prayer Breakfast Honors Israel, Holocaust Survivors
by Chad Groening
March 22, 2004
(AgapePress) - Embattled former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and a survivor of the Nazi death camps will be among the featured speakers at the upcoming annual International Christian Prayer Breakfast in Honor of Israel.This 23rd annual international prayer breakfast will take place May 11 in Memphis. It is being organized by Bill McAteer, the founder and president of the Religious Roundtable. He says the event has three main purposes, which are to "honor Israel, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and to allow Bible-believing Christians to express their unconditional love for God's ancient people."
And McAteer says the prayer breakfast will also recognize Mrs. Nina Katz, a Holocaust survivor who spent several years of her young life in Nazi concentration camps. He dramatically recounts how Katz was taken by the Nazis at 11 years of age and how, when the Allied forces came to liberate Auschwitz, "the gates were opened, and she stormed out of there and was so weak that she crumpled."
In a sense, Katz will be representing not only herself, but also all the other survivors, as well as the deceased victims of that period.
"We honor the Holocaust survivors," McAteer says, noting that this is among the foremost reasons for the annual gathering. As believers gather to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, he hopes the event will help them understand the importance of expressing their love for the Jewish people individually and as a nation.
McAteer says Christians need to remember Psalm 122:6, which says of Israel, "They that love her shall prosper."
