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The 2026 Nevada Prayer Breakfast, organized by the Nevada Interfaith Association (NIA), was held on Wednesday, May 13. Over 400 people were in attendance. Here is a copy of the address presented at the event by Bishop Savoy.
Expression of Faith – Nevada Prayer Breakfast (5/13/26) delivered by the Right Reverend Gene Savoy, Jr.
Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here, and thank you Father Chuck for your remarks. I also thank Reverend Matthew and the committee for inviting me to address you here this morning.
When we hear the word faith, many of us picture different things. For some, it’s a sacred text. For others, a ritual, a memory, a community, or a quiet moment alone. But across all of our traditions, one truth seems to echo: faith is not only what we believe, it’s how we express it and what matters most.
An expression of faith can be as simple as a gesture of kindness, or as profound as a lifelong commitment. It can be spoken in prayer, sung in a choir, lived through service, or carried silently in the heart. Faith shows itself not only in our words, but in the way we move and interact in the world.
In every tradition represented here, there is a shared thread: the belief that something greater than ourselves calls us toward compassion, toward understanding, and toward hope. Even when our religions, cultures, and languages differ, the impulse is the same – to connect, to heal, and to uplift.
So when we talk about an expression of faith, we’re really talking about the courage to live by our deepest values and convictions – the courage to see the sacred in one another, the courage to act with love even when it’s difficult.
Today, as people of many faiths, we honor the beauty of those differences and the unity beneath them. May each of us continue to express our faith not only in our traditions but in the way we listen, the way we serve, and the way we show up for one another.
I now offer you an expression of faith.
CALL TO WORSHIP
O Come, Let Us Sing a New Song unto the Lord:
A Joyful and Good Song – A Sound Full and True.
From Pure, Contrite Hearts, United and Clear,
Rise Now the Spirit of Christ: Our Fountain of Love and Light.
Speak to Our Spirit, Lord Supreme;
And Merge Our Consciousness, Our Being, And Form
With Holy Breath in Song.
We Seek Thy Bright Essence of Renunciation and Surrender, 0 Lord Supreme.
Come, Let Us Worship Together Again, as in Ages Past; And Take Us into Thine Ever-Presence with Giving of Thanks, Acknowledging God’s Most Precious Gift: The Glory and Power of Love and Light: Holy Nourishment.
We Are Thy Sons and Daughters of Love and Light, 0 God, Auspicious Source of Life.
O, One God, Father of Lights, Giver of Every and Perfect Gift,
Be in this Holy Temple; Let Earth Keep Silence Before Thee,
That We May hear Thy Word And See Thy Righteous Image of Light.
AMEN. PEACE.