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A Thanksgiving Proclamation

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Today, in the United States of America, we celebrate Thanksgiving.  This is a day to gather with family and friends to share food and traditions.

This National holiday was established in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln who said, “…I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”(underline added)

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Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!

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ESTHER’S WARRIORS MINISTRY 

As we celebrate this Thanksgiving Day let us remember the Christian roots of our Nation.  Thank God for His hand on your life and on our country throughout the years.  Following is the Thanksgiving proclamation from our first President, George Washington.  God bless you and our United States of America this day and always.

“I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that … Read the rest