Weekly Prayer Teleconference Founder Raises Frequency
by Allie Martin
July 12, 2004
(AgapePress) - A California Christian activist is stepping up a nationwide prayer effort aimed at reclaiming America for Christ. Earlier this year Pastor Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California, began holding a weekly prayer meeting via conference call. But with the U.S. Senate poised to vote on a marriage amendment and with a presidential election upcoming in the fall, Drake says he felt led to expand the prayer meeting to four days a week.
The Baptist pastor feels it is time for believers in America to come together and seek God's face in earnest repentance and humbleness. He believes prayer is a crucial part of the effort to restore America's heritage of faith and family values.
"The birth certificate of our country was the Mayflower compact, which said this nation was being founded and formed for the advancement of the Christian faith," Drake says. "We praise God for religious freedom in America ... but by and large we are -- and we are foundationally -- a Christian nation."
Drake feels the nationwide telephonic prayer meetings will compliment efforts by other churches and Christian activists. He says participants are seeking a more powerful way to engage in a concentrated prayer effort, praying "four hours, at least, a week for our national issues -- especially in reference to the political issues and the ... people that are running on a pro-life, pro-biblical world view."
The phone-in prayer meetings now take place Monday through Thursday at 1:00 p.m., Eastern time. The phone number to call is 603-488-0702, and the access code to join the prayer conference is 619110.
