Area resident to pray for pastor’s release

Two years to the day of American Pastor Saeed Abedini’s incarceration in Iran, concerned citizens will gather in Sequim and at similar vigils around the world to pray for his safe release and call upon their governments to act on his behalf.

They will meet at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26, at Calvary Chapel Sequim, 91 Boyce Road.

Abedini boarded a flight to Iran two years ago and never came back. Event organizers say Abedini, a U.S. citizen and Boise, Idaho, minister, is serving out a “virtual death sentence” of eight years in one of Iran’s most notorious prisons. Charged with “undermining the national security of Iran” because of his Christian faith, Pastor Saeed has faced repeated beatings, malnourishment, lack of proper medical treatment, and death threats from other prisoners and Iranian Revolutionary Guards, they say.

Prayer healer to speak

John Q. Adams, a full-time prayer-based healer using the Christian Science system of healing, will present a free talk titled, “If God Is All, Where Is He at This Moment?” at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.

For more information on the event, contact Alan Halfhill at 360-204-4545 or halfmac@mac.com.

Church offers post-divorce class

Sequim Community Church hosts DivorceCare, a 14-week class that each week focuses on a different aspect of recovery from divorce, i.e. anger, finances, children, emotions, single sexuality, etc.

Videos are shown each week with testimonies of counselors and lay people who deal with divorced individuals and their own divorces.

Classes are 7-9 p.m. each Monday at the church, 950 N. Fifth Ave. Call 683-4194 for more information.