Unity in The Lou Prayer

It was in 2012 that a number of us met at Wash U to hold the initial board meeting of the St. Louis Reconciliation Network (STLRN), with a mission to bring regional unity and healing to St. Louis by harnessing the potential collective power of its diverse faith communities.

The intervening years have seen wonderful accomplishments at STLRN and we have been joined by many other individuals and organizations who are laboring alongside of us in this important work. However, the challenges to city, regional, and national unity have seemingly become even greater, and there is an increasing need for people of faith to raise their collective voices in prayer, including intentional prayer for our leaders and representatives.

We recently became aware of a new national effort, the Nehemiah Network, whose mission is to assemble prayer teams in all 435 of the nation’s congressional districts. Here in St. Louis, we…