National Prayer Breakfast

…until 2000) and led the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., in 1994. Two years later he was awarded the Mugunghwa Medal—the highest Order of Civil Merit—by the South Korean government for supporting the no-cost treatment of children with heart disease. Indeed, the church undertook many social programs, including a…

Known since 1970 as the National Prayer Breakfast, it is regularly addressed by the president of the United States and is conceived of by the movement as a consecration of the governing class to the service of Jesus.

…year he appeared at the National Prayer Breakfast, a traditionally nonpartisan event organized by the Family, a Christian movement. In his keynote speech, Carson was highly critical of U.S. Pres. Barack Obama, who was in attendance, and the resulting media attention helped make Carson a rising star in conservative circles.…