ITEMS OF INTEREST October 1, 2007 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Joe Birch, Jason Bain

A NEW PRAYER CAMPAIGN matches one prayerful person with each of the 7,000 city streets in Memphis [Tennessee].

Mary Ann Livesay is a member of the prayer campaign, which maps out streets of Memphis and matches them up with people of prayer. . . .

Mary Ann found out about the street by street prayer assignments after columnist Wendy Thomas wrote about [Memphis resident] Kathy Hammond in The Commercial Appeal: "I grieve with everyone over the suffering of the city," Hammond said in an interview with Action News 5. "It's a large city, and it's difficult to pray for the city as a whole. But I thought what if we go street by street?" . . .

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