Our BSU partners in Hawaii have asked for help with an issue that just surfaced this past week. A complaint has been filed by the Citizens of Separation of Church and State noting that too many Honolulu City Council meetings have begun with a Christian prayer. A news article in the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper states that this is a “loosely organized citizen group which has been mainly inactive.”
Council member Gary Okino is a devout Christian and is standing up for the practice of prayer before meetings. Friends, we have been here before with similar issues in California, Michigan and Texas and the Lord has helped us be victorious in every instance.
Again, I’m asking you to stand with us and our friends and partners in Hawaii. Here’s what you can do:
1) E-mail City Council Chair Todd Apo tapo@honolulu.gov and let him know of your support for prayer at the opening of his Council meetings
2) E-mail Councilman Gary Okino gokino@honolulu.gov and thank him for his strong stand for Prayer and Faith in Jesus
My family and I feel a closeness to the people of Hawaii and to the beautiful Islands that God has made for each of us to enjoy. I have been traveling there since the age of two and it has been an honor for us to have the opportunity to minister to our partners and friends in the Hawaiian Islands through the years. In fact, Kellie and I will be speaking there again in less than two weeks. Let’s make our voice heard together now and support the People of Hawaii, where the State Motto is, “The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness.”
Blessings to you and remember,
JESUS IS LORD!
Dr. Stephen Lowell Swisher
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
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Thank you again for joining us in this endeavor. Together we’re making a difference!
I wrote you last week to inform you of the ruling by Ms. Barbara Crabb of the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional and therefore should not be recognized. Ms. Crabb was nominated to the Court by Jimmy Carter and has been serving since 1979.
I’m very happy to celebrate with you another victory in the Courts of the United States. This time from the unlikely but important 9th Circuit in California. Most usually thought of as one of the most liberal courts in our Nation Judges from this Court voted 3-0 to uphold “In God We Trust” on coins and currency.
