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  • Soldiers Thank Church for Protecting Them in Prayer ... Deployment in Afghanistan

    04/01/2006 7:04:12 AM PST · by GretchenM · 7 replies · 410+ views
    Statesman.com ^ | April 1, 2006 | M. B. Taboada / Teresa Neumann
    For an entire year, the flock at Grant African Methodist Episcopal Worship Center in Austin, Texas, would stop everything they were doing at noon and pray for the safe return of the soldiers of the 11th Area Support Group in Afghanistan. They prayed that the group would return "whole, safe, unscathed and unscarred." The congregation also sent the soldiers care packages, blankets, cookies and encouraging emails throughout the year the unit was deployed, according to a report in the Austin Statesman. Last Sunday, they thanked God for answering their prayers because the entire unit made it back home without any...