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According to Lloyd Turner, the spiritual architect of the original Adopt Your Street project in Newark New Jersey, Newark is no longer the only city in the US to have 100% of it's streets adopted for daily prayer evangelism. There is now another city, Plainfield, NJ.

Prayers of blessing, which are the driving force of Adopt Your Street, change the spiritual climate and bring peace where peace was absent before.

Here's a story of how the city Plainfield was ambushed by peace last spring. This is the start of the article from nj.com...

RIVAL GANGS DECLARE TRUCE, MEET WITH MAYOR PLAINFIELD

Two gangs have been caught in a vicious, decades-long rivalry — one police blame for many of the shootings and murders that have paralyzed Plainfield in recent months.

But today, representatives from both sides met with the mayor to tell her the last thing she expected to hear: They have decided to end their dispute, lay down their arms and join together as friends.

"We're doing this for peace, community and the kids," Tayir Pugh, 28, said as he and other members of the two groups sat at a conference table with Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs.

Authorities say the truce — reached without intervention from police or city officials and sealed with a meeting at an IHOP in North Plainfield on Monday — is unprecedented in its public nature.

Reporters met with the two sides at the same restaurant today, just before the unannounced meeting with the mayor. . . .

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/two_rival_plainfield_street_ga.html