Gov. Perdue not alone in praying for rain

By Charles Edwards

Atlanta, GA – Georgia's drought has prompted religious leaders to ask churches across the state Sunday to pray for rain.

You could say it all started back in June when Governor Sonny Perdue spoke to the Georgia Farm Bureau.

PERDUE: I Believe in the God that can make it rain and we need to pray to make it rain.

Fast forward to Thursday when Perdue talked to reporters after a landmark water meeting in Washington.

PERDUE: I'm going to go back to Georgia and pray harder for rain because that's the ultimate solution .

He's not the only one who thinks that way. The Georgia Baptist Convention last week asked its members to make Sunday a state wide day of prayer for rain. Mark Sterling is the Convention's prayer consultant.

STERLING: To acknowledge our need for God, to confess and repent of all sins, and thirdly ask God what he is saying to us in the midst of this drought, ask god to send rain and then fifthly commit to obey god.

So far, only a handful of the Convention's 36 hundred churches has said they'll incorporate rain prayers into their services.