By CASSIE MCKEE, Four Points News
Pastors from Austin-area churches organized a city-wide day of prayer and fasting on Thursday that culminated with a service at Hyde Park Baptist Church that evening to pray for rain in Central Texas.

The May 22 service to pray for rain filled Hyde Park Baptist Church with more than 700
people from congregations around Austin. Austin Christian Fellowship’s senior pastor, Will Davis Jr., helped lead the service.
Photos by Jim Shields
Will Davis Jr., pastor of Austin Christian Fellowship based in Four Points, said the idea came about a month ago during a pastor’s prayer meeting.
“In that moment of prayer, on this platform, God spoke to one of the pastors and said, ‘You need to pray for rain and you need to tell the city council what you’re doing,’” Davis told attendees at the evening prayer service.
The group’s first organized “prayer for rain” meet-up was at the Austin City Council meeting on May 15 where they stood in the city council chambers and prayed Lake Travis would return to its 681-foot level, at which point the lake is considered full.

The May 22 service filled Hyde Park Baptist Church with more than 700 people from congregations around Austin. Photos by Jim Shields.
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