Saline County residents have organized a plan to invite the public to park and pray at schools across the county, on the night before school starts.
Jim Gardner of Northside Church of Christ is calling it a “back to school prayer blessing.”
Similar to the drive-in prayer at Saline Memorial Hospital, all are invited to drive up to your local school or the one where your child attends, on Sunday, August 23, at 5:00 p.m. Then just park and pray inside your vehicle for 15-30 minutes.
“Our purpose, on the eve of the start of the school year,” said Gardner, “is to have people of faith seek God’s favor, blessings and protection over all the faculty, staff and students of Bauxite, Benton, Bryant and Harmony Grove as they begin a uniquely challenging open to the school year on the following day.”