Uniting the Shenandoah Valley in Prayer

61st Shenandoah Valley Prayer Breakfast
Date: Wednesday May 6th, 2026
Time: 6:50 am (doors open at 6:30)
Location: JMU Festival Conference and Student Center
Tickets: $30 per person, or $240 for a table of eight

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Rickey Bolden &

Lee Corder

Rickey Bolden is an American former professional football player who played offensive lineman for six seasons for the Cleveland Browns. He was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. The seventh of ten children, he was raised in a single-parent home after his father died at an early age. While growing up, Rickey witnessed violence in many forms. He experienced the murder of one family member, the long-term incarceration of another, and the attempted suicide of yet another. He himself was shot in the leg as a 14-year-old for throwing a snowball at a passing car. His family had a very difficult time staying immune from the violence and drug culture that pervaded his neighborhood.


To escape the environment, Rickey turned to sports. By high school Rickey was an All-American in football and an All-Metroplex in basketball. He was awarded a 4-year scholarship to Southern Methodist University, Three of his four years at SMU, the football team was in the top 5 in the nation. 


In his fourth season in the NFL, Rickey responded to God’s call and enrolled in Seminary. In his seventh NFL season he retired to pursue his call into full time ministry. He graduated from Seminary then moved to Washington D.C. to became a light in the southeast D.C. community and continues to develop ministries that impacted it. Rickey has been married for 34 years and has five children. 


Dr. Lee Corder is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, serving him by connecting political, professional, non-profit and educational leadership in collaborating to address issues of human need, suffering, injustice and reconciliation. He sits in the weekly U.S. House of Representatives Breakfast (as the only non-House Member participant), as an associate with the National Prayer Breakfast movement, and a resource for numerous faith based service organizations.


Lee is former Senior Vice President for Young Life International developing and overseeing work in 100+ nations and for 20 years as Senior Chaplain of the NFL’s Washington Redskins.


He has degrees from the University of Virginia, Fuller Theological Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary and is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church.


Lee and his wife Paula live in Nellysford, Virginia and have four grown children, Justin, Micah, Wil and Laura, and four in-laws, Liz, Sara and Courtney, Jesse and twelve grandchildren.

Rickey & Lee continue to serve our nation’s leadership by hosting weekly Bible Studies with a number of Congressmen. They also work with community and business leaders throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area as well as friends throughout the world.


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