{"id":90468,"date":"2011-05-05T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=90468"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T16:21:30","slug":"national-day-of-prayer-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=90468","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Observes National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/05\/05\/national-day-of-prayer-events\/prayer-hands-1283886913\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/05\/prayer-hands.1283886913-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"prayer hands.1283886913\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-90499\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2014 Tyler&#8217;s observance of the National Day of Prayer kicked off Thursday with the Mayor&#8217;s Prayer Breakfast.  Various prayers, musical performances, and more were offered during the Harvey Convention Center event.   Mayor Barbara Bass remarked, &#8220;Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are God-given rights.   They are not man-made.&#8221;  She asked the hundreds in attendance to remember &#8220;all of the different ways that we need to be praying, all of the different groups we need to be recognizing.&#8221; She added,  &#8220;I ask that you continue to keep prayer in your life throughout the year.&#8221;  Various churches joined other agencies and community members in sponsoring and organizing the free event.   <\/p>\n<p>Also on the schedule: two new events sponsored by Bridlewood Church of Bullard, Lane\u2019s Chapel United Methodist Church, and Mission Tyler.  \u201cPrayer on the Square\u201d was held at noon in downtown Tyler. Clergy participants included Rev. David Dykes of Green Acres Baptist Church, Rev. John Robbins of Marvin United Methodist Church, and Bro. Lou Thomas of Lane\u2019s Chapel United Methodist.  Along with that event, organizers scheduled an Evening Community Prayer Service at Lane\u2019s Chapel with Pastor Stephen Broden of Fair Park Bible Fellowship of Dallas as guest speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Bridlewood Church pastor Dan Cummins says the noon and evening events are to become annual activities for Tyler\u2019s National Day of Prayer. Cummins says next year\u2019s Evening Community Prayer Service will be hosted by another church in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Tyler&#8217;s observance of the National Day of Prayer kicked off Thursday with the Mayor&#8217;s Prayer Breakfast. Various prayers, musical performances, and more were offered during the Harvey Convention Center event. Mayor Barbara Bass remarked, &#8220;Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are God-given rights. They are not man-made.&#8221; She asked the hundreds in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=90468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Observes National Day of Prayer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 03:17:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90468"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91251,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90468\/revisions\/91251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}