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News:
September 1, 2004
Pray the Day
 Southern
Wesleyan University students participated in a 24-hour
prayer emphasis, Pray the Day, Aug. 27, as part of the
university’s spiritual emphasis. Students prayed
through the 24 hours in a sukkot in Intercession Square
at the university’s campus in Central. A sukkot
is a temporary booth or shelter where the Hebrews lived
while on their pilgrimage to Canaan, according to Southern
Wesleyan University Chaplain Ken Dill. Succah (plural
for sukkot) were constructed in the fields during the
harvest time and the Children of Israel would stay overnight
in these shelters to maximize their work day, he said.
These shelters became places of prayer and thanksgiving
for the harvest God would give them. Many Jewish congregations
construct succah during the Feast of Tabernacles, Dill
said. Right, Matthew Tietje of Old Fort, N.C., a religion
major, prays in the university’s sukkot.
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