Southwest Florida Community Prayer Breakfast announces 2025 event and keynote speaker

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Sept. 16, 2024 - PRLog -- The Southwest Florida Community Prayer Breakfast will host its annual National Day of Prayer event at 6 a.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2025, at Hammond Stadium at the Lee Health Sports Complex in Fort Myers, featuring two-time People's Choice Awards winner Kirk Cameron as the keynote speaker.

Cameron is known by millions as "Mike Seaver" from the 1980s sit-com "Growing Pains." Since then, Cameron has invested his time and energy into faith and family-focused films, television shows and live events, including "Left Behind," "Monumental," "The Way of the Master," and "Fireproof," which inspired the best-selling book "The Love Dare." In 2022, Cameron produced "Lifemark," a film about the value of life and the beauty of adoption. Currently, Cameron hosts the weekly talk show "Takeaways with Kirk Cameron," and the "American Campfire Revival" podcast.

He has hosted hundreds of live events focused on marriage, family and parenting, and he recently authored "As You Grow," a children's book that teaches Biblical principles and character. Cameron and his wife, Chelsea Cameron, host an all-expenses-paid summer camp for terminally ill children and their families called Camp Firefly.

"Kirk Cameron's journey from Hollywood to God is not only unique, but inspiring," said Ron Inge, president of Southwest Florida Community Prayer Breakfast, Inc. "We look forward to him touching the hearts of the Southwest Florida community through his message of faith."

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance on the first Thursday of May when individuals from all over Southwest Florida join in unified prayer for continued blessings on the nation. Annually, local, state and federal observances are held between sunrise to sunset across the nation and attract more than 2 million people. Except for 2021, when the event was not held due to the pandemic, the Fort Myers community has been honoring the National Day of Prayer since the Community Prayer Breakfast's inception in 1988.

Southwest Florida Community Prayer Breakfast, Inc. was founded to guarantee that the prayer breakfast continues to be celebrated annually, thanks to the generous support of local businesses, organizations, individuals and foundations. John Noland, Carl Barraco, Gary Trippe, Ron Inge, Richard Akin, Ashley Hull and Matt Roepstorff serve as board members of the Southwest Florida Community Prayer Breakfast.

The May 1 event will be at Hammond Stadium at the Lee Health Sports Complex, at 14100 Six Mile Cypress Parkway in Fort Myers. The event is complimentary, but registration is required. Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis at CommunityPrayerBreakfast.com. (https://communityprayerbreakfast.com/)