Interfaith Prayer Service Held for Haiti

January 23, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: KCRG

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/82524542.html

“Disaster comes and comes again, we dare not turn and walk away.”

The words, sung to the tune of the hymn, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” served as the theme of an interfaith prayer service for Haiti Saturday at Christ Episcopal Church, 220 40th St. NE, in Cedar Rapids.

The service was meant to “give a message to people that we can make a difference,” said the Rev. Tom Capo, pastor at Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist.

“People needed that time to be here, to have that opportunity,” Capo said after the service.

He was one of eight speakers representing different denominations and faiths to deliver messages to a crowd of about 40 worshippers while images of the people and buildings in Haiti flashed behind the altar.

During the service Capo encouraged people to remember their differences but to recognize their similarities, as well.