Don't forget:
2004 National Bible Week is November 21 - 28
Here's what you can do, twenty things, in fact, to celebrate National Bible Week.
A little history about National Bible Week:
On the eve of that first National Bible Week™ a nation-wide radio broadcast over the NBC network was to launch a week of activity. Events were scheduled from communities across the nation to the White House. Given the news from Pearl Harbor earlier that Sunday afternoon, the largest possible radio audience was tuned in when the National Bible Week™ broadcast began at 8 pm. A more auspicious timing could not have been planned. Even Mrs. Roosevelt, in her daily newspaper column for Monday, December 8, 1941, expressed her sentiments about the timeliness of this call to the nation to turn to the Bible.
National Bible Week™ has been an annual tradition since that first effort in 1941. Since 1951 the celebration of National Bible Week™ has been led each year by a prominent business or professional leader serving as the National Chair. It is now celebrated the week of Thanksgiving, from the Sunday before until the Sunday following, making it an 8-day week. Every U.S. President since Franklin Roosevelt has issued a Message for National Bible Week™. Members of Congress enter statements in the "Congressional Record" highlighting the Bible’s importance in the history and culture of our nation. Governors and Mayors proclaim Bible Week and encourage its observance. In recent years more than 30 governors and 500 mayors have issued Bible Week proclamations.Posted by Clifton at November 20, 2004 08:37 PM | TrackBack