Mexico
- Please continue to pray for the more than 100,000 internally displaced children and people of Mexico who have been forced from their homes and communities by escalating drug cartel violence.http://tinyurl.com/3ozum5o
- Pray for children whose homes and schools have been burned down by rival drug cartels fighting for control of marijuana and opium poppy growing regions in Mexico’s “Golden Triangle.” Pray for children and their parents who must hide in the woods, sleep under trees, or hide in caves to escape the violence.
- Pray for those in Mexico’s northern states—Durango, Chihuahua, and Tamaulipas—who’ve been threatened with death by drug cartels if they didn’t evacuate their towns. Rival cartels continue to fight for control of lucrative smuggling routes to the U.S. through these northern states.
- Pray for children who have been affected by the more than 34,000 drug killings in the past four years. Pray that God will bring comfort and peace to children who see violence on a daily basis and who live in fear. Pray for an end to the insatiable demand for drugs and that the drug wars plaguing Mexico will cease.
Sudan
- Please keep in prayer the thousands of children, youth, adults, and older adults who have fled a disputed border area between north Sudan and Southern Sudan after it was seized by the north’s army. Pray that a peaceful resolution can be reached between the governments of the north and south. Pray that the two-decade civil war that ended with the 2005 peace agreement will not start up again because of this conflict. http://tinyurl.com/4z372zo http://tinyurl.com/6leqgbx http://tinyurl.com/68jeq8d http://tinyurl.com/3qngo9h
Tanzania, Uganda, United States
- Please keep the mission team from First Presbyterian Church, Midland, Texas held close in prayer as they travel and serve in Tanzania on a mission trip to plant churches. Pray for the local leaders in Tanzania and Uganda who have helped coordinate this trip and who will continue the follow-up work after the team leaves. Pray for the children and people of Tanzania with whom the team will come into contact during their time there.
Uganda
- Please pray for the girls and women of Northern Uganda who are married off at young ages into polygamous households. Pray that girls will be loved and valued the same as boys and will be allowed and encouraged to continue their education. Only seven percent of girls attend secondary school because of poverty and early pregnancy. http://www.womensenews.org/
print/8591 - Pray for women and girls who have contracted HIV/AIDS because of their limited understanding of the transmission of this disease. Pray that education about this disease will be more readily available to females in Uganda.
United States
- Keep the children and people along the Missouri and Souris Rivers in prayer as they work to protect homes, businesses, and communities from advancing floodwaters. Pray for those in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa who are filling sandbags and for those who are moving families and possessions to higher ground. Give thanks to God for the hard work of the summer physical education children and teachers and the local sports teams who have been filling sandbags to help out. http://tinyurl.com/6jdsrqn
- Pray for people from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico who were affected by last month’s floods along the Mississippi River. Pray for those who lost homes, farms, fisheries, and livelihoods and struggle to start over. Pray for children who’ve been evacuated and live in temporary housing. Pray for God’s provision and encouragement for those who’ve lost everything. http://tinyurl.com/3hwrsd6 http://tinyurl.com/3huc8fy
- Please keep the women and men who work for Child Protective Services (CPS) organizations around the country in prayer as they serve abused and at-risk children and struggling families. Give thanks to God for the willingness of these individuals to do some very challenging and difficult work—investigating situations of abuse and neglect, removing children who have been hurt, working with parents to help them regain custody of their children, and placing children in safe homes. Pray for the safety, emotional health, spiritual well being, and leadership skills of these workers and that God will bless them with wisdom in their interactions with children, parents, advocates, and those in the legal system.
