Glowing in green: Melania Trump is the epitome of chic in a $2,000 dress as she smiles and holds Donald's hand while hosting a National Day of Prayer service in the Rose Garden

• Melania, 49, wore a long green belted Emilia Wickstead dress and colorful floral heels to attend the service at the White House on Thursday morning
• The event was attended by victims of last weekend's California synagogue shooting, including Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of Poway synagogue
• Mother-of-one Melania introduced her husband at the event, and he then went on to welcome the Rabbi to address guests 
• On Wednesday evening, the president and first lady also hosted a National Day of Prayer dinner at the White House 
• 100 interfaith religious leaders and Trump administration officials attended 
• Vice President Mike Pence, his wife, and Jared Kushner were also present
• In his speech, Trump said violence and terrorism against people of all faiths must end and 'all civilized nations must join together in this effort'
• The National Day of Prayer falls on the first Thursday of May each year, according to a law passed by Congress in 1988

Melania Trump was the picture of a supportive first lady on Thursday morning, when she joined her husband at a National Day of Prayer service in the Rose Garden. 

The 49-year-old mother-of-one happily held President Donald Trump's hand as they made their way out into the open area from the White House, and she stood by his side as he addressed attendees, which included several victims of last weekend's California synagogue shooting. 

Embracing the warmer spring weather, Melania chose to go bare-legged and bare-armed for the service, wearing an elegant forest-green $2,010 sleeveless Emilia Wickstead dress that was cinched in at her waist by a thin belt. 

It also appeared as though Melania's ensemble may have been influenced, at least in part, by the event's sun-soaked venue; the first lady paired her green frock with a pair of pale floral-patterned heels that looked perfectly at home on the Rose Garden grass. 

Melania and her husband made their way out to the space together, clasping hands as they greeted their guests, before making their way to the microphone to speak to the attendees. 

Once there, a glowing Melania introduced her husband, who happily praised his wife for all her hard work as the first lady, before calling for an all-out fight against anti-Semitism in the wake of Saturday's devastating synagogue shooting in California.

'We will fight with all our strength and everything that we have in our bodies to defeat anti-Semitism,' Trump said. 

He then invited Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, where the tragedy took place, to come to the podium and address attendees. 

Rabbi Goldstein, who was shot in both hands and lost a finger during the horrific incident, thanked the president for his kindness in the wake of the shooting, telling those gathered that Trump had been the person 'who began my healing'. 

He then praised the president for being, 'as they say in Yiddish, a mensch par excellence'.   

'I should have been dead by now,' the 57-year-old said . 'I was in the line of fire, bullets flying all the way.'

The Poway shooting came exactly six months after a white supremacist shot dead 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the worst attack against Jewish people in the modern history of the United States.

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