Community prayer planned at Honeybee Park

By John Underwood / john@gulfcoastmedia.com
Posted 3/1/18

ROBERTSDALE, Alabama — With recent events such as the school shooting in Florida, a group of concerned residents has decided to come together and pray for children. Beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, …

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Community prayer planned at Honeybee Park

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ROBERTSDALE, Alabama — With recent events such as the school shooting in Florida, a group of concerned residents has decided to come together and pray for children. Beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 3 at Honeybee Park residents are asked to attend a community prayer service.

“Our children face issues in our society daily and it is up to us as a community to support, encourage and empower them by bringing God’s presence to the forefront,” according to a flier being distributed throughout the Robertsdale community.

As the mother of a 12-year-old student at Central Baldwin Middle School, Keri Green said she just wanted to do something because she simply felt helpless in the wake of so much tragedy.

“God put it on my heart to start this and He’s been the one to make it possible the entire way, so there is no way I can take credit for it,” she said. “I just felt helpless to do anything, the way so many others have felt, and I asked God to lead the way.”

Green said she reached out to friends through Facebook, trying to come up with some way to help children in the community cope with the day-to-day pressures they face.

“They have so much that they have to contend with on a daily basis,” she said. “I just want them to know that there are people in the community who care for them and want what’s best for them, not just parents, but teachers, administrators, community leaders and law enforcement.”

So far, leaders of four community churches have agreed to participate in the event, she said, and she is hoping to add a few more before Saturday’s event.

“I want this to be something positive in the middle of all the negative that’s out there,” she said. “I just want children to know that we are there to support them.”

The City of Robertsdale agreed to let the group use Honeybee Park for the event, asking only that participants not park on Highway 59.

“Prayer is our greatest weapon against the negativity of this world,” according to the flier. “God is our Victor! This event is not to discuss recent events or encourage negativity. Rather, it is to pray for our children; for their safety and their success. It is to help them heal when they’ve been hurt and to offer them strength in numbers from their community, through God.”