GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) _ About 100 people have gathered at a beach pavilion at Gulf Shores, Ala. to pray for people and wildlife on the Gulf Coast.

They also prayed for an end to the oil crisis. The participants said God, not BP or the government, holds the key to resolving the disaster.

The president of the Evangelical Environmental Network, Mitch Hescox, said it was God that gave engineers the wisdom to finally cap the spewing oil.

The chairman of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, said it wasn’t a coincidence that BP announced the cap was working shortly after Congress called for a national day of prayer for the Gulf.