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Presidents’ Day: George Washington’s Birthday

Washington acknowledged God throughout the Revolution, as he wrote on May 15, 1776: "The Continental Congress having ordered Friday the 17th instant to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, humbly to supplicate the mercy of Almighty God, that it would please Him to pardon all our manifold sins and transgressions, and to prosper the arms of the United Colonies, and finally establish the peace and freedom of America upon a solid and lasting foundation

Pastor Dewey Moede

February 20, 2023

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American Minute with Bill Federer

Presidents’ Day: George Washington’s Birthday

Presidents’ Day is actually Washington’s birthday, recognized by an Act of Congress for government offices in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and for all federal offices in 1885.

In 1971, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act to create more three day weekends moved the observance of Washington’s birthday to the third Monday in February.

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