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ceremonies in the recipients’ offices. The agenda included a short speech describing religion as the foundational basis of morality and law, a reading of the
Commandments in their entirety, and prayers. The official was given an inscribed wooden plaque on which was mounted two stone polymer tablets containing a summary of the Ten Commandments. Recipients were urged to “display and obey” the Ten Commandments.
40:(Buffalo area), New York to Washington D.C. to begin an outreach to policy makers. Initially known as Operation Save Our Nation, it became known as Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital. Schenck left with the intention of becoming pastor of the National Community Church on Capitol Hill and creating a network of pastors to lobby there.
22:, a fictitious name for P&R Schenck Associates in Evangelism, Inc. (PRS), had its organizational headquarters in Washington, D.C. The stated purpose was to "bring the good news of salvation in Jesus the Messiah to strategic places in the world and to participate in the evangelization of the world. The President of PRS is
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Christian outreach whose mission is to reintroduce the Word of God into the public debate surrounding legislation and policy matters". Faith and Action
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