The committee for the Kitsap Community Prayer Breakfast has announced plans for its 29th Annual Prayer Breakfast, to be held  from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Kitsap Golf & Country Club, 3885 Golf Club Hill Road in Bremerton. The Breakfast is open to the public, and the cost is $20.00 per person, or a table of 8 for $150.00.  No tickets will be sold at the door.

This year’s featured speaker will be Brig. General Robert Stewart (Ret.), a former NASA astronaut who, along with Bruce McCandless, made the first untethered walk in space.

Stewart was born on August 13, 1942, in Washington, D.C., but spent a good part of his youth in Mississippi. He got his bachelor of science degree in mathematics from USM in 1964, and a master of science in Aerospace Engineering from UT at Arlington, in 1972.

Stewart entered the United States Army in 1964, and within two years had completed basic wing training and was designated an Army aviator. He has military and civilian experience in 38 types of airplanes and helicopters, logging approximately 6,000 hours total flight time.

In 1979 Stewart became a NASA astronaut and served as a mission specialist on two space missions, including the flight in 1984 during which he and McCandless walked, untethered, in space.

In 1986, while in training for his scheduled third flight, Col. Stewart was selected by the Army for promotion to Brigadier General and was reassigned from NASA to be the Deputy Commanding General, US Army Strategic Defense Command, in Huntsville, AL.

In 1989, he was reassigned as the Director of Plans at the US Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colo. Married, with two grown children, General Stewart retired from the Army in 1992 and went on to become Director of Advanced Programs at Nichols Research Corporation in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The annual Kitsap Community Prayer Breakfast is patterned after the National Prayer Breakfast held annually in Washington, D.C., and is designed as a time of prayer for our community and its leaders, and a time of individual rededication to God.

Reservations can be made by going on-line to www.breakfastoutreach.org, or by calling Carl Johnson at 360- 908-1124 by September 29.

Seating is on a first come first seated basis, except for reserved tables.