It’s the best-spent 90 hours, Wilma Hart, member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Ozark, will tell you.
Since 2004 Hart has organized Ozark’s Bible Reading Marathon — 90 hours devoted to reading the Bible continuously from Genesis to Revelation.
The Ozark marathon took place at the courthouse square May 2–5 ending at noon with a special service commemorating the National Day of Prayer. Kenneth Hale, director of missions of Dale Baptist Association, gave a small sermon and Ron Hendrickson, music minister of Post Oak Baptist Church, Ozark, sang.
“It was wonderful,” Hart said. “We were grateful to God for all who were there.”
The best thing about the marathon has been the opportunity to minister to someone or lead someone to Christ each year, she added.
“This year as we were putting up the tent, a young man drove up and said, ‘Please pray for me,’” Hart said. “We stopped what we were doing and we prayed for him. That’s what it’s all about.”
Salem-Troy Baptist Association also held a Bible Reading Marathon for its fourth year at the downtown park in Troy.
“The thing that impressed me this year as you listened to the Bible being read was it just seemed that every word of it was very pertinent to today’s times,” said Director of Missions Averyt Walker. “[The Word] revives us.”
This is the 59th annual National Day of Prayer and the 21st annual Bible Reading Marathon in Washington. (TAB)
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