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FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Taking a knee in a different way… during National Week of Prayer for Youth in the United States.
Spiritual leaders are calling people of faith to pray specifically for kids.
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Jeremy Vaccaro, the Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Downtown Fresno, (seen above) says it’s very important to pray for young people because they are facing a difficult world with ever more challenges.
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“We live in a time that there are so many things pressing in on kids, so many pressures, so many hard things, so many things that most of us as adults didn’t have to face in the same ways that they face, and so it’s a time for us to pray and ask God to intervene in their lives to ask God to give them courage to live into their faith.” Jeremy Vaccaro, Senior Pastor First Presbyterian Church.
In a continuation of National Week of Prayer for Youth, students across the country will gather at school flag poles before school to pray together.
The event is called “See You at the Pole,” happening this Wednesday, September 27th, and began back in Texas in 1990, with 10 students praying at their school.
Click below to listen to the report by KMJ’s Liz Kern:
