Messiah Lutheran Church is offering a respite from the election season’s fervor at two separate prayer services to be held at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday.
Called “Healing of the Nation,” the 30-minute services will be identical in content featuring music, prayer, scripture readings — and will be nonpolitical in nature. All the public is invited to attend.
Pastor Peter Braafladt said the idea for a healing service was a response to what he and his staff sensed within the community and their own congregation — that the anxiety and divisiveness of political campaigns has spilled over into many other areas of people’s lives.
“We’ve observed some low-level stress and anxiety, a sense that this has been a long drudge to the end,” said Braafladt. “And that this isn’t just going to go away after we elect somebody. We want to do what unifies us in faith.”
