CUMBERLAND — At the 39th Cobb Prayer Breakfast, family was the focus as Gov. Brian Kemp, his wife, first lady Marty Kemp, and their three daughters discussed faith and leadership.
The event coincides with the congressionally-designated National Day of Prayer, held on the first Thursday in May each year.
Much of the Kemp family’s discussion before hundreds gathered at the Cobb Galleria Centre touched on the power of prayer to get them through challenges, both from before Kemp’s ascendancy to the governorship and during his time leading the state.
The structure of the talk itself fit the family theme of the breakfast: The governor and his wife were interviewed by their daughters Jarrett, Lucy and Amy Porter.
“I can assure you, I would’ve never agreed to doing this before I got reelected,” he said to plenty of laughs.
Praying as a family
The Kemp family discussion began with Brian Kemp answering Jarrett’s question about maintaining strength in difficult times through prayer.
He noted his prayers now look a lot different than they did 10 or 15 years ago, when he and Marty were small business owners unsure of how they would fare coming out of the Great Recession.
Nonetheless, prayer is a constant in their lives that helped them get through hard times, he said. It was how he and his wife were raised, and it’s how they’ve sought to raise their children.
Kemp said he believes God has a plan for everyone, and he and his family were reminded of that as they decided together whether he would run for governor.
Looking back, the governor acknowledged that faith was maintained through a tumultuous first term as governor.
“During the pandemic and civil unrest and the 2020 election, I wasn’t sure what that plan was, but I knew he had one for me, and I was just trying to be a faithful servant in that regard,” he said.
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