Lake Region—On Tues., April 17, at 10:00 a.m., Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Winston Bourne, of the Lake Region Conference and spiritual leader of the Highland Park Seventh-day Adventist Church, delivered the invocation at the opening of another session of the Michigan Senate.

Bourne prayed that God would endow the senators, the governor of Michigan, and the president of the United States of America with insight and courage, fortitude and wisdom, and endurance and bravery to lead the state as well as the nation in the right direction.

During the prayer, Bourne invited the senators gathered to pause for a moment of silence to remember the brave and distinguished service men and women who died in combat in Iraq, and the students of Virginia Tech who recently lost their lives at the hands of a fellow student.

In his prayer, Bourne called upon the distinguished, devoted, and dedicated senators to band together like the state bird of Michigan to drive away the predators of crime, violence, and illegal drugs that prey upon the social and economic fabric of the great state of Michigan. He also implored them to uphold the high and noble principles of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Bourne was invited by Martha G. Scott to deliver the invocation. Scott is senator of the second district in Michigan and also a friend of the Highland Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The invocation is recorded in the Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan.

Renee Sneed, Highland Park Seventh-day Adventist Church clerk