A community prayer service is scheduled to take place in Lehighton.

The Prayer Service For Healing Of Our Community And Nation will be held at noon Saturday in the borough park amphitheater.

April Walker, of Lehighton, who organized the event, said she got the idea after she, her son and some of her friends attended the Franklin Graham Prayer March in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 26.

“On the way home in the car we were talking and we thought we wanted to do something like that in our community,” Walker said. “In this time of somewhat unrest and division and disunity, we really wanted to seek God’s faith in bringing peace and healing.”

Walker said the event is being promoted through Facebook, and has ben announced at various churches and various church websites have promoted it as well.

“We are bringing together various clergy from different denominations, as well as we’re hoping to attract a diverse crowd as far as ethnicities, so we can promote healing, unity, power, and prayer,” she said. “We’re going to have singing - we have eight clergies so far that will be praying on various prayer focus points and expect to be welcomed asking people to join their faith and prayers with ours.”

Walker said those who attend are asked to adhere to the Pennsylvania state mandates of masks and social distancing from those outside their families. Hand sanitizing stations will be available at the entrance points.

Visitors are asked to bring a chair as available seating is limited. This is not a political event, so visitors are asked not to bring signs.

“I know a lot of people are really scared, and a lot of people are feeling the heaviness of what’s going on all around us,” she said. “I just want to encourage people that we get to pray, and prayer is powerful because we have God who hears our prayers and loves us and wants to help us.”