Lord…
We thank you for your church, founded upon your Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, 
but go out and work as though the very answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon you. 
Help us to realize that humanity was created to shine like the stars and live on through all eternity. 
Keep us, we pray, in perfect peace. 
Help us to walk together, 
pray together, 
sing together, 
and live together 
until that day when all God’s children 
– Black, White, Red, Brown and Yellow – 
will rejoice in one common band of humanity 
in the reign of our Lord and of our God, we pray. 

Amen. 

– The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

This prayer along with a visual benediction may be found by clicking here.