Highlights

Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

Community comes to LC for National Day of Prayer

by Al Quartemont

Local leaders call for prayer for the country

Across America this past Thursday, men, women and children gathered in churches and public squares to lift up up the Nation and its leaders.

And in Pineville, at Louisiana College, that burden was reflected as well, as LC hosted its own National Day of Prayer event, with the theme - "For Such a Time as This."

By the time the event reached its conclusion, one could feel the presence of the Lord in Guinn Auditorium as several people made their way to the front of the auditorium, just to kneel and pray, crying out for God to move upon America.

"It is a wonderful thing to be part of this," said David Kimsey, pastor of the Sanctuary of Praise in Pineville. " And I pray that this just isn't something we do only once a year, but that it would be something we do every week. Our leaders are in desperate need of our prayers. That's why we're here today."

The LC event featured a number of speakers from the greater Alexandria-Pineville community, including Rapides Parish Sheriff Chuck Wagner, Colonel Jerry Crook and Major Andy Magee of the Louisiana National Guard, and Bill Robertson from the Louisiana Baptist Building. Local pastors included Stewart Holloway of First Baptist in Pineville and Philip Robertson of Philadelphia Baptist Church in Deville.

Also part of the program was Mike Johnson, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian non-profit organization that seeks to defend religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and marriage and the family. Johnson spoke about the recent decision by a Wisconsin federal judge that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, at least in terms of the government officially sanctioning such and event.

"The hour is late and the crisis is great in the culture," Johnson said. "The foundations are being chipped away."

While Johnson's address was the most political in nature, most of the other speakers focused on the Biblical call for Christians to be in prayer for all those in positions of leadership. That includes the nation's military, as echoed by Col. Crook. Recently back from a deployment to Iraq, Col. Crook became a little choked up when reflecting on the importance of prayer during that time for him and other troops.

"Does prayer work?" he asked. "You bet it does. It matters. It matters to soldiers and it matters to the families back home."

In between prayers and speeches, LC's "Voices of Louisiana College" performed their heart-felt songs that have become popular staples at many campus events. And several congregational songs were led by Dr. Fred Guilbert.

All of it led to the final moments of the event, with Pastor Robertson of Philadelphia Baptist offering a prayer the repentance and restoration - a turning back to God on the part of the American people.

As Pastor Kimsey had noted earlier, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."

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