In 1952, President Harry Truman declared an annual national day of prayer.  In 1988, an official date was set – President Ronald Reagan signed into law the designation of the first Thursday in May as the annual observance.  This year, National Day of Prayer was celebrated on May 3 with the theme of ‘One Nation Under God’.  In celebration of this day, CAP joined together in Laurel County at a community center to take some time for reflection and prayer.  Jen Zupicich, CAP longtime volunteer was the committee chair of the event.

In the week leading up to the Day of Prayer, CAP employees and volunteers signed up for daily prayer slots.  These were 15-minute intervals in which people across CAP would volunteer to pray.  The intention was that someone at CAP would be praying 24 hours a day during the week prior to the celebration.  Each day was outlined with a particular area of focus:

April 26 - Pray for our Participants
April 27 - Pray for our Donors
April 28 - Pray for our Volunteers
April 29 - Pray for our Employees
April 30 - Pray for our Partners
May 1 - Pray for CAP Leadership
May 2 - Pray for Appalachia

On May 3, CAP had the opportunity to hear from a speaker and set aside some intentional time to pray for individual requests of each program and particular participants in dire need whom we are serving.

One CAP employee writes:

It seems that the last 6 months of my life has been one personal tragedy after another and I see from reading the prayer requests each day that a lot of you are going through some things as well. But, the one thing that I know and I know that you know is that the Lord has always been there and always will be there and for that we give Him praise!