announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. the event will begin momentarily. announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the chairwoman of the republican national committee. hello! this convention will come to order! [cheers and applause] 2020ates, welcome to the republican national convention. offering today s invitation, invocation, please welcome from vermont, j sheppard. thank you, ronna. my name is jay and i am a republican. i am also a catholic donald trump republican. by the grace of god, i am an american. so let us pray. thank you, o lord, for all the gifts you provide us, not because we deserve them, but solely through your grace and mercy, let us acknowledge the many gifts that god has bestowed upon us, starting with a president and vice president that reflect the values of our founding fathers. and are willing to fight for those values, starting with life, knowing that all life is precious, from conception to natural
i am calling the 2018 summer/winter meeting to order. on chair would like to call the committee man from texas to the . could we all stand for the invitation please? dear lord, we thank you for giving us another day to serve you. we thank you for the blessing that it is to live in the greatest and most prosperous , and lord,he world we thank you for the opportunity to work to preserve the foundations of freedom and liberty and we ask that you would help us to continue to be the leaders that you called us to be. help us to serve faithfully, and help us to understand that like your servant esther in the bible, we have been called for such a time as this. he asked that you would bless and protect the leaders of this great nation, president trump, the house and senate leadership, governors and state legislators all over this land, that you would give them wisdom and understanding, and that they may make decisions that improve the lives of all americans. bless and protect our p
Arkansas Republicans selected Eddie Arnold of Arkadelphia as their national committeeman over former party chair Doyle Webb at Saturday s committee meeting.