Prayer

Mom’s ‘God boxes’ bless the gift of letting go

The day after her mother died, with the house surreally silent, Mary Lou Quinlan reached to the highest shelf of her mom’s Fort Myers, Fla., bedroom closet and discovered the “God boxes.”

Jonnie Gomez prays on the steps of the Ogden Municipal Building in Ogden on Thursday. It was the National Day of Prayer and various pastors and citizens of Ogden participated.  KERA WILLIAMS/ Standard-Examiner

Dozens gather to pray in Ogden on the National Day of Prayer

OGDEN -- Positive change -- in various aspects of the nation -- was the focus Thursday as 50 people met with a dozen church leaders to pray on the steps of the Ogden Municipal Building.

Wanted: Participants for National Day of Prayer event

OGDEN -- Some area Christian church leaders are inviting everyone, of any faith, to participate in a National Day of Prayer observance Thursday.

The event is just one of many happening throughout the country that day.

Ascension Lutheran Church offers 'Drive-Thru Prayer'

OGDEN -- Ascension Lutheran Church, at 1105 N. Washington Blvd., in Ogden, is beginning a new prayer ministry.

The church's Drive-Thru Prayer will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. starting Tuesday in the church's parking lot.

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Healing and prayer topic of lecture

OGDEN -- A free lecture on "The healing effect of your prayers" is being offered to the public at 3:30 p.m. April 1.

Prayer, virtue themes of Sunday's LDS conference sessions

SALT LAKE CITY -- A story of a 12-year-old boy worried about the possibility of his hard-earned $5 bill being lost in the laundry, and his turning to prayer for its safekeeping, was the message President Thomas S. Monson offered at the Sunday morning session of the 181st Semiannual General Conference.

Students plan prayers at flagpoles

Several hundred local Christian schoolchildren are planning to take part in an international event to pray at their school flagpoles early Wednesday morning.

(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Cayden Rawson, 11, stands near the silo he fell from June 5 on his grandmother’s Hooper farm. He suffered brain and other injuries when he dropped 21 feet onto his head and side. He was in a coma for three days, and his doctors and nurses say they are amazed by his recovery.

'God's hands' save Hooper boy after 21-foot fall on head

HOOPER -- No one knows better than Cayden Rawson's parents how lucky he is just to be alive.

The look from paramedics as they arrived June 5 after the Rawsons' 11-year-old son fell 21 feet, landing on his head and side, told it all.

(Photo courtesy of Julie Rhodes) (From left) Mike Rhodes and Jason Burton help Taye Eshetu Alagaw, who is believed to be about 19, with the movement of his crippled right hand at Where Love Is, a boys shelter, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Liberty woman's belief in miracles saves Ethiopian teen

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The walls are crumbling plaster. The roof is canvas and mud. A plastic washtub, half full of grimy water, sits under a rickety rack of shelves. It is four paces one way, five paces the next, over benches and beds and a small stack of beat-up books. It is dark and dirty and smells of the chickens and cows that trot about in the courtyard next door.

But for Taye Eshetu Alagaw, this was home. And it might as well have been a castle.

Hindu prayer will open Layton council meeting

LAYTON -- Layton's next city council meeting will be a unique one, and it has nothing to do the items on the agenda.

(AMY MACAVINTA/ Standard-Examiner correspondent)
Wayne Rennemeyer gives a thumbs-up during a ceremonial ride with Scott Boyer.

Miracle man back on bike

BRIGHAM CITY -- His neighbors call Wayne Rennemeyer "the miracle man."

National Day of Prayer observed on Ogden building steps

OGDEN -- Area pastors who have been meeting on the steps of the Municipal Building on the first Thursday in May for 20 years got proof this year that their efforts have made a difference.

Study: Personality and prayer can block stress

Stress kills. Or does it? Various studies released in recent weeks give a mixed review of how much a person's personality, coping mechanisms and plain old happiness affect the ability to handle life's tribulations and live longer as a result.

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