National Prayer Breakfast

Got back yesterday from an amazing time up in D.C. I got a chance to experience the National Prayer Breakfast where thousands of people come together to be with old and new friends from the US and around the world in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Somehow I ended up working on the security team responsible coordination between the hotel (the Washington Hilton was completely rented out) and the Secret Service. So there I was in a huge ballroom wearing my cool little Secret Service earpiece escorting around the likes of Senator McCain, Speaker Pelosi, the heads of state from several countries; ate dinner with Shawn Alexander and I could continue to drop a ridiculous number of names if I wanted. The bottom line though was that we were all there to celebrate the teachings of Jesus whether we were Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddist, Whatever.
Most of all it was a very encouraging time because I got to see that there are many politcians in that town who are not just about pork and party politics. I learned about many of the groups that meet during the week for bible studies and saw some folks who very clearly love each other despite having politics that are polar opposites. I will have to write more once I really process what went on there.