National Prayer Luncheon celebrates 61st anniversary, brings people together
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. James Hecker, 18th Wing commander, presents a helmet signed by the U.S. Air Force Academy Falcons football team to Chaplain (Col.) Dondi Costin, Pacific Air Forces Command Chaplain, at the National Prayer Luncheon at the Kadena Officer's Club on Kadena Air Base, Japan, Feb. 19, 2014. In 1953, President Eisenhower and members of Congress established the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, now known as the annual National Prayer Breakfast or Luncheon. The Prayer Breakfast brings together the leadership of the United States to affirm our nation's founding moral and spiritual values. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hailey R. Staker)