WASHINGTON – More than 2,000 evangelical women gathered in the nation’s capital this weekend to pray for positive change in the country ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
-
(Photo: The Christian Post)Jane Hansen Hoyt, the president of Aglow International, one of the world’s largest women’s organizations, speaks at the ''A Voice for the Times: Calling Women to Transform their Nation,'' prayer gathering on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 in Washington, D.C.
Under the banner “A Voice for the Times: Calling Women to Transform their Nation,” participants of Aglow International’s Sept. 26-28 conference were called to pray for a spiritual awakening in the country and to be engaged in the election process.
“In this pivotal election year, it is critical that the voices of evangelical women and spiritual mothers be raised,” said Jane Hansen Hoyt, the president of Aglow International, one of the world’s largest women’s organizations. “We must pray for America’s future and participate in public life.”
Hoyt said the voice of the evangelical women offers something unique to the discussion because God created females so that they innately care about social issues concerning family, children, abuse issues of children and women, and they have a “low tolerance” for crime and government corruption.
“Women could well swing the election,” Hoyt told The Christian Post. “They hold 52 to 54 percent of the voting power in our nation. It is critical that women become involved in the political process, that their voice be heard.”
The three-day conference, held 40 days before Election Day, featured a public prayer gathering on Saturday.
During the gathering, participants prayed for seven spheres of influence in the country.
“We have come to the nation’s Capitol to focus prayer on government, family, the Church, media, education, science/business/technology and arts/entertainment,” Hoyt said, naming off the seven spheres. “With all of the decisions before our leaders on Capitol Hill and all the crises they face, we believe it is time to call on God’s name.”
Speakers at the prayer rally included Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.); the Rev. Pierre Bynum, chaplain and national prayer director of the Family Research Council; Chaplain Alan Keiran, chief of staff at the Office of the U.S. Senate Chaplain; and Dr. Corinthia Boone, chairman of the Capital Region National Day of Prayer.
On Sunday, the conference was scheduled to conclude with speakers Graham Cooke, author and popular conference speaker, and Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. of High Impact Leadership Coalition.
Aglow began in 1967 with four Christian women who met together for prayer and fellowship despite denominational differences. Today, Aglow has grown to more than 200,000 women who meet in more than 170 countries, including some in the Middle East. The ministry estimates that it reaches out to 17 million people each year through prayer, teaching, and acts of compassion.
RSS
Come LORD JESUS come...come and heal our nation...as we come and repent of our sins before You...the evil that we have participated in, we ask You to cleanse our Nation and bless the women of AGLOW as they seek to obey You Lord God and bless this Nation again with Your Presence In Jesus Name Amen
I thank GOD that HE created each one of us uniquely and no two are the same; not even twins...GOD is the MASTER and we take what God has made (man made in God's image) and we exchange our heritage for the pigpen.
EVIL is very real as is Satan, and man just goes right along with Satan destroying what GOD blessed us to have!
Arise O CHURCH and see the SALVATION of the LORD GOD!
American Christians...wake up to see what God has so richly blessed you to have...and for many years we have done Evil in HIS sight...nothing in all of creation is hidden from GOD! Repent..the Kingdom of God is at hand in Jesus Name...Amen!
Amen indochristian: Please let our brethren in Orissa and India know that we are praying for them and we suffer with them but it is all for our LORD and may JESUS be seen in each of us as we hold out the Gospel of JESUS to all! In Jesus Name Amen!
blue1018: AGLOW are women who love God and their nation and they are certainly not sexist. They know who they are in God, women of God, they are confident in who they are in life and I'm one of those women as well.
God created us to be in relationship with Him and one another. HE did not create us to be used as anyone's doormat. He did create us to be in submission to first of all HIM and to one another. Submission doesn't mean ABUSE of any kind. Any man who claims to love Christ and abuses his family, doesn't know God!
AGLOW calls on all christian women to stand up for God's ways and to speak the truth in love!! This is what we do and we acknowledge that GOD Almighty is Soverign, not man.
May God bless you as well blue1018
to scitsonga
yes, they are.
Oh please wb. These women will walk home to their 'places' under the subordinate command of their 'husbands', and then quietly and in a ladylike manner cook, clean, and read the bible. This is NOT the female American I love so much.
Mike, I believe the CP folks are ashamed of the fool president they once supported, now they avoid mentioning him
WHY DOESN'T THIS WEBSITE TALK ABOUT THE $700 BILLION BAILOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WANT TO PASS IN CONGRESS.
can it be considered sexism when a woman says God created women a certain way?
I mean, look at men and women - even a child can tell they were created differently. I applaud God for making men and women. I applaud God for the difference!
Please pray for the Christian Tribal women in Orissa, India who are victims of rape and murder because of their Christian faith. These genocidal actions are being commited by an organisation that has its tax exempt chapter in the US, UK Australia, called the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and also called Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party. JESUS is the only ANSWER.
"Hoyt said the voice of the evangelical women offers something unique to the discussion because God created females so that they innately care about social issues concerning family, children, abuse issues of children and women, and they have a â