Resident’s of Plant City representing the city’s many churches gathered in City Hall’s Sadye Gibbs Martin Martin Auditorium to observe National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 4.
“I think it’s wonderful that we live in a city — a community — where we can have a National Day of Prayer right here in the City Chambers,” Mayor Rick Lott said during the ceremony.
While National Day of Prayer has roots going back to the Continental Congress in 1775, it was President Harry Truman who signed a bill in 1952 mandating each subsequent administration choose a day "on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals.”
In 1989, the law was changed to designate the first Thursday of May as National Day of Prayer every year.