Prayer Event Inspires Unity

WAITSBURG - Despite the long-standing sports rivalries in the Touchet Valley that provide competition and fun between our small towns, the local clergy are hoping to blur the lines and bring together members of the religious community in the quarterly Touchet Valley Call to Prayer.

"We want to invite people of the (local) congregations to come together and realize their unity as Christians," said Greg Bye, the pastor of the Redeemer Lutheran Church of Dayton.

The majority of churches from Starbuck, Dayton and Waitsburg have been meeting for these events quarterly for about three or four years,...