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. Matthew Tietje of Old Fort, N.C., a religion major, prays in the university’s sukkot.