Last Week Salinas Hosted their 4th annual Mayor’s Prayer Lunch. In my article Grapes of Hope I told how the faith community is coming together to confront the challenges they are facing. Well they certainly are coming together, over 300 attended the lunch, and they got the attention of the media. Read this most encouraging article and video spot by KSBW, the local NBC affiliate.
JOSEPH HESTON, KSBW
From KSBW
“It’s better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.” That old adage was well represented this past week in Salinas. More than 300 gathered at the National Steinbeck Center for the 4th Annual Mayor’s Faith Community Luncheon.
In the midst of bleak economic news and gloomy gang crime news, I can tell you, first-hand, that this gathering of the spiritual was sure uplifting. Our KSBW Editorial Board knows that there will be viewers out there that say “praying about gang violence will get you nowhere.” But when you see these men and women of the faith community of Salinas gathered together, it is an awesome thing: Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Hispanic and Angelo; black, white, and all shades in between. These folks know that faith without works is a fruitless path, but their faith put in action, out in their community, can and has made a world of difference in cities and towns all over the world…
Read the full article and watch the video
God is moving in California!
Ted
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