About Us
When I was a teen in Chicago in the early 1970's I participated in two 26-mile Hunger-Hikes collecting monetary pledges per mile for the number of miles completed-all proceeds going to local food banks. This was a powerful experience for my friends and I.
A sometime playwright, last year I started out to write a dramatic play about the millennium development goals and personal integrity. I quickly realized this was better nonfiction, the stage needed to be as big as the world--a life play. Everyone has a role. No part is too small. The result is countingprayers.org, a first act.
For the past fifteen years, I have been, and still am, the co-director of the Trinity Conference Center is West Cornwall, CT-a ministry of hospitality to ministers, secular and religious. This conference center is soaked in the prayer of many denominations and faith traditions, and is a witness to what great results working together can achieve. Now, I would feed the world here if only I could, but since that's not possible countingprayers.org is my attempt to do just that--with your help.
What can you do? First, make a prayer pledge. Second, get involved and decide what else you will do until the millennium goals are met? There are lots of ways to get involved--some take only time, others money. First, I'm going to count the prayers for the will to end extreme poverty...
Until The Millennium Goals Are Met,
Jon Dennfounder
countingprayers.org
P.S. What's next? The second act of this life play is the Billion Prayer March--a liturgical act, and a praise/witness event like no other. Counting Prayers and the soon to be detailed Billion Prayer March are being developed with feedback from dozens of clergy, new and senior, conservative and liberal, male and female, cynics and dreamers. All agree that ending extreme poverty is not a partisan issue, it is a moral one--an imperative. "The world now has the means to end extreme poverty, we pray we will have the will." I believe in the transformational power of prayer. Do you?