Hosted by Bayport UMC and the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services

New York State is offering two hour training courses for residents to have the tools and resources to prepare for any type of disaster, respond accordingly and recover as quickly as possible to pre-disaster conditions.

A key component to the training is the distribution of free NYS Disaster Preparedness Kits to each family that registers and attends in-person.

Sessions last approximately two hours

Prayer beads have been around since the early Christians went into the desert to seek solitude and to

be closer to God, concentrating on “praying continually.” They would keep track of their prayers or
recitations of Psalms with stones, which soon changed to knots on a prayer belt, and gradually evolved
to beads. In the 1980s the idea of Protestant prayer beads first resurfaced in the Episcopal Church, but
today many other denominations have discovered the benefit of having something tactile and visually
pleasing to either hold or to help keep track of who or what they are praying for. Encouraging prayers
of praise, petition, intercession, and thanksgiving with these four areas incorporated into the circle of
beads, they are a sensory reminder of our open relationship with God.

$10pp includes making a set of beautiful prayer beads of your own!