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Local Faith Leaders Will Pray For Pasadena at Saturday Vigil

Published on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 | 6:40 am
 

Pastors pray for Pasadena at busy ‘TV Corner’ on Orange Grove Blvd. during the 2021 Faith Leaders vigil. [Photo courtesy Clergy Community Coalition]
Approximately 100 faith leaders from Pasadena and neighboring communities plan to come together to usher in the new year united in a prayer vigil on Saturday. 

This will be the second such vigil. It is hosted by the Clergy Community Coalition (CCC) and the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (IMA) and will be open to the public.

“We believe that with all of the recent changes in our community, with the hiring of a new City Manager, Miguel Márquez, an incoming new Chief of Police and a few other key positions in the city, as well as some important changes in leadership in some large local churches and the incoming president of Fuller Theological Seminary, Dr. David Goatley – the first time that Fuller has a Black president – all of these things we believe really go with the theme of ‘Turning the Corner,” said  Clergy Community Coalition Executive Director Pastor Mayra Macedo-Nolan. 

Event co-sponsors Clergy Community Coalition and the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance say that together they represent over 250 local faith communities.

As part of the program, participants will walk in procession up Orange Grove Blvd. to the corner of Colorado Blvd. where the major grandstands for the Rose Parade are located.

“That is the physical place where every participant in the Rose Parade will be physically walking through, and that will be the corner where all of the eyes of people all over the world will be actually focused,” Macedo-Nolan said. “And so we believe it’s symbolic to actually stop there and pray there as well. We will end there, on that corner.”

Assemblymember Chris Holden said “Each new year, The Tournament of Roses Parade and Rose Bowl Game usher in opportunity for the world to celebrate together; new hopes and great expectations for peace and goodwill.  Starting the year in prayer and gratitude across the different faiths demonstrates our unity and belief that even a global pandemic would not deter our community celebration from marching on!”

Clergy will join together for a breakfast hosted by Maranatha High School prior to the event. The prayer event will start on the lawn of the Tournament of Roses headquarters at Wrigley Mansion, and will include a Land Welcome by leaders of the Gabrieleno (Tongva) Band of Mission Indians and prayers by several local clergy. 

Background

Faith Leaders Unite came about through a collaboration last year between local clergy, elected officials and Tournament of Roses leaders who agreed that it was proper and important to bring clergy together ahead of the world-renowned Rose Parade to bless the community and the event in this manner.

The Clergy Community Coalition (CCC)is a network of local faith, non-profit and civic leaders who seek to work together towards a more safe, just and prosperous Greater Pasadena.

The event will be held in partnership with the Tournament of Roses and the City of Pasadena and begin on the lawn of the Tournament of Roses headquarters, at 391 Orange Grove Blvd. on Dec. 31 at 12:30 p.m.

It is open to the general public and no registration is required.

For more information on this year’s Faith Leaders Unite event, visit www.clergycommunitycoalition.org/events

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