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Here's as much of the prayer, delivered by local CBMC president Dwight Mason at the Wednesday Fircrest luncheon where Dino Rossi spoke, as I have transcribed right now. Ellipses are used when I can't quite understand what's being said, although I'll work on that throughout the day.
The prayer transcript is from an audio recording obtained - but not made by - The News Tribune.
"Thank you, Dino ... and CBMC thanks you for running for governor. We want to just forward this with a word of prayer... we certainly believe prayer is important to us to communicate with the God who loves us.
Father, we are thankful of your care for us and thankful for this opportunity to hear Dino's story and pray for him and his campaign and just passage and protect him and his family at this time and just thank you that we have the opportunity to hear his story and, Lord, we just now we bow our heads ...
Now, this might be an opportunity for you to pray the prayer much like Dino prayed at one point in his life where he accepted Jesus Christ as his savior and has made such a big difference in his life, just like this is your opportunity today.
So as you're sitting there thinking about what has been said and thinking about naysayers in your life who say you can't do it, and maybe they're right, you can't do it on your own... there's a God who wants that relationship with you, who wants to be there to make all things possible because you're trusting him...
Lord, I have ... I've made mistakes, I've sinned, I've fallen short, I know I can't do it on my own so I just want this moment to talk to you as my savior, I turn my life over to you ... and just believe that, by doing this Lord that I will start a new life and this new life will be a new life trusting you. so thank you, Lord, for your forgiveness and that you will take me from this point on, so I give my life to yours.
So thank you, Lord, and thank you for this time and this opportunity we have today for this fellowship and we pray all these things in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Ok at your table, this is not a fundraiser, though Dino did leave with us a couple envelopes there and I'm sure he'd appreciate that."
Here's a link to the story about the issue.
