The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event held in Washington, D.C., on the first Thursday of February each year. The first prayer breakfast groups within our federal government were initiated in 1942 in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Since then, those groups have continued their weekly meetings to discuss various spiritual needs and our nation’s dependence on God.

The National Prayer Breakfast traces its origin to 1952, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in cooperation with leaders and the Senate and House of Representatives, came together to seek divine guidance and to reaffirm our nation’s faith and dependence on God.

Initially called the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, the name was changed in 1970 to the “National Prayer Breakfast.”

It is designed to be a forum for political and business leaders of the world to assemble together and build relationships which might not otherwise be possible. States, cities, and other countries have established their own annual prayer breakfast.

Fort Gordon is scheduled to observe the National Prayer Breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Feb. 16 with a buffet breakfast at the Gordon Conference and Catering Center.

The event will feature an interfaith program with a speech by Dr. Stu Weber. He served in Vietnam as a Military Intelligence Officer with the Green Berets. He also founded and led the Good Shepherd Community Church in Oregon as their senior pastor for 32 years. Dr. Weber has authored several books including the bestseller, Tender Warrior. For more information, contact your unit chaplain.

If you do not have a chaplain, call the Religious Support Office at 791-5653.