The Exchange Club’s venerated tradition of the One Nation Under God prayer breakfast will lead a pair of special Thanksgiving week broadcasts on public radio WCPI 91.3 FM.

McMinnville native Mark Gwyn, recently retired as the longest serving director of the TBI spoke to a hushed and attentive audience of Warren County students at the prayer breakfast Tuesday morning at Central Church of Christ. A recording of the complete program will air on 91.3 this Tuesday at 10:05 a.m. and 10:10 p.m.

The second presentation will be the community Thanksgiving service scheduled tonight, Sunday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m., at First United Methodist Church, 200 West Main Street. That program will feature Rev.  Ben Randall, pastor of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, as the principal speaker.

As a reflection of the ecumenical theme of the community service, the choir will include the talented voices of singers from various churches, all under the direction of Donna Campbell. Landry Duvall, a McMinnville native now serving as director of music at River Road Presbyterian Church in Richmond Va., will be the guest organist. 

The community Thanksgiving service will air on WCPI Wednesday at 2:05 p.m. and again Thursday at 2:10 a.m., said Mary Cantrell, program director at the non-commercial, nonprofit radio station. 

“WCPI was inaugurated more than 20 years ago to serve our community with locally originated and locally focused programming like this,” said Dr. Norman Rone, president of the Warren County Education Foundation, the owner-operator of the 1600-watt FM station. “This kind of broadcast content is not the commercial, canned programming that is so common on the airwaves today. These events are created by our fellow citizens and neighbors and they have a special connection with McMinnville and Warren County.”