WASHINGTON (BP)–Wednesday, April 8 has been proclaimed as a day of prayer and fasting for the U.S. Army’s 200,000 deployed soldiers and their families by the Army’s chief of chaplains.
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Douglas L. Carver, a Southern Baptist, said the prayer and fasting proclamation coincides with a 120-day “stand down” and unit training period to address the Army’s top-priority emphasis on suicide prevention and awareness.
“April 8 is a Wednesday and prayer meeting night for Southern Baptists, so we really encourage not only Baptists but all local churches to pray for the military,” Carver told Baptist Press in a phone interview.
