What Is The National Day Of Prayer?

Charter of the NDOP:

The National Day of Prayer Task Force exists to encourage and promote events related to the National Day of Prayer, the first Thursday in May. Every effort is made to provide resources for individuals wishing to participate in or plan events on behalf of our ministry.The NDP Task Force will accomplish this goal by:

Recruiting state, regional and city Coordinators and other volunteers to plan and facilitate local events.

Providing materials and ideas in support of the Coordinators and other interested citizens promoting the event.

Coordinating a national media campaign leading up to the day. Planning and leading events in Washington, D.C. on the first Thursday in May.

Carrying out other activities which focus the attention of every citizen on the need for intercessory prayer for our nation and its leaders.

Vision:

To communicate with every family the need for personal repentance and prayer, and to mobilize families to personal and corporate prayer, particularly on behalf of the nation and those in leadership on all levels of local, national, church and educational areas of influence.

Official Policy Statement on Participation of "Non-Judeo-Christian" groups in the National Day of Prayer.

The National Day of Prayer was created by an act of Congress and is, therefore, intended for all peoples of faith to pray to the God of their understanding.

However, our expression of that involvement is specifically limited to the Judeo-Christian heritage and those who share that conviction as expressed in the Lausanne Convenant. If peoples of other faiths wish to celebrate in their own tradition, they are welcome to do so, but we must be true to those who have supported this effort and volunteered their time to promote it. National Day of Prayer is not a function of the government and, therefore, a particular expression of it can be defined by those who choose to organize it. This is not a church/state issue.

*Used by permission from the 2008 National Day Of Prayer Website
http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org

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