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First Thursdays: Cabinet's call resonates with IGRC United Methodists

The idea was simple enough: What would happen if 140,000 United Methodists in the southern two-thirds of Illinois set aside a day a month to fast and pray for a common need or dream? And so, when Cabinet co-chairs Randy Reese and Janice Griffith stood before the 2010 IGRC Annual Conference, they issued the invitation for folks to join them on the first Thursday of the month for First Thursdays: A Call to Prayer and Fasting. And while the initial invitation was not met with as much...