MEDIA STORIES
 |  MPR News: Can the power of interfaith prayer quell a violent summer? That’s the hope of Don and Sondra Samuels, the organizers of the grass-roots initiative, “Healing Our City.” |
|---|---|
 MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Organizers are hoping Minneapolitans can begin to heal through prayer and reflection during a 30-day challenge in July. Among the hustle and bustle of West Broadway in North Minneapolis Sunday afternoon, people like Dianne Haulcy stopped to pray for eight minutes and 46 seconds. |  Basilica News: 30 Days of Silent Prayer: Healing Our City is a month-long, July 1-31, African American-led collaborative conceived to add a vital spiritual factor to all the strategic thinking, policy proposals and investments being considered. |
 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A community is coming together to heal by praying every day in July, even after gunfire sent those who gathered on Wednesday fleeing. A prayer tent has been set up at Bryant and Broadway in North Minneapolis in hopes to give people a place to grieve the recent violence and come up with solutions for it. |  NewsBreak: 30 days of Prayer North Minneapolis. Can the power of interfaith prayer quell a violent summer? That’s the hope of Don and Sondra Samuels, the organizers of the grass-roots initiative, “Healing Our City.”. On July 1, they set up a prayer tent on the Hawthorne Crossings parking lot at the corner of West Broadway Avenue and Bryant Avenue North in north Minneapolis, to give people of all faiths and races a collective space to grieve, pray and dream. |
 STAR TRIBUNE July 08, 2020 Every morning this month, a quiet ritual unfolds inside a large white tent in the parking lot of a north Minneapolis strip mall marked by boarded-up businesses. As cars roar by, volunteers lay out nine pretty rugs under the tent’s roof, placing a prayer pillow, folding chair or kneeler on each. They set bouquets of flowers at a small table up front and next to the entrance sign announcing “Prayer Tent.” “Silent Prayer. For 8 Minutes, 46 Seconds. Stand, sit ... |  YouTube ... Don Samuels -"An opportunity to become truly more brothers and sisters than we were ..." |