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A better way to pray?

Conference seeks to strengthen ‘our lifeline to God’

It’s a spiritual practice as old as time, and remains mysterious, sacred and individual. Prayer “is our lifeline to God,” the Rev. Neal Mathias recently wrote to parishioners in the First Presbyterian Church newsletter.

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