- Pray for the more than 555,000 people evacuated after recent rains caused flooding and mudslides in China’s Yangtze River basin. Pray for children and families whose homes and villages have been flooded throughout seven provinces in central and southern China. Pray for those who are still trapped by floodwaters.
- Please pray that God will bring comfort and relief to children suffering because of this disaster, some of the worst flooding in China since 1955. http://tinyurl.com/3e8qygt
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Djibouti, Tanzania
- Pray for the children and people of East Africa who are suffering the effects of years of recurring drought and conflict. Pray for the more than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa who are in need of assistance to survive this crisis. http://www.trust.org/alertnet/
news/un-says-struggling-with- growing-somali-exodus/ - Pray for those who depend on crops and livestock for their survival—droughts are now occurring every two or three years and rainy seasons have been shorter. http://www.trust.org/alertnet/
crisis-centre/crisis/e- african-hunger - Pray for those who have been displaced by the drought and/or conflict in their countries. Pray for children caught in tribal wars over water rights and access. Please pray for the thousands of Somali children and people who have fled heavy fighting and high food prices (caused by the drought) in their country and are arriving daily at refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Pray that God will provide sufficient rain to grow crops and raise livestock. Give thanks to God for the organizations providing humanitarian aid to children and people affected by these situations.
Honduras (CURE International – www.helpcurenow.org)
- Pray for the disabled children receiving treatment at the CURE International Hospital in Honduras and for the medical staff and caregivers there. Also pray for 11-year-old Indira and her needs.
India Sahaara Charitable Society (http://www.sahaarasociety.
- Please keep the staff and volunteers with Sahaara Charitable Society held close in prayer as they serve underprivileged children who are deprived of formal education; children who are rejected by society and live on the streets; prostituted women and their children; orphaned and abandoned children, and those whose parents are terminally ill; and children and youth in juvenile detention facilities. Give thanks to God for their commitment to the least of these. Pray that God will encourage these volunteers and staff members and sustain them in their daily ministry with hurting and at-risk children.
- Give God thanks for the seven pre-primary schools, known as balwadis, Sahaara Charitable Society has established in Mumbai and for the volunteers who work with approximately 500 children from impoverished households. Pray for the children who come to these informal preschools where they are given a basic education, medical care, as well as food, and are taught good conduct and moral values.
- Pray for the street children with whom Sahaara volunteers work each week. Pray these children will experience the grace and love of Jesus Christ through the weekly interactions. Volunteers demonstrate to these socially rejected children they are worthy of love and attention by feeding them, caring for them, teaching them, praying and singing with them, and encouraging the God-given talents in each of them.
- Please keep in prayer the prostituted women and their children with whom Sahaara Charitable Society ministers. Pray that Sahaara’s outreach to the commercially sexually exploited will continue and that more and more women will find freedom from prostitution. Give thanks to God for the Sahaara drop in center, to which these women and their children may go for prayer, health care, and counseling.
- Thanks be to God for the Mahima home in which orphaned or abandoned children, or those whose parents are terminally ill, are raised in a family home environment with much love and affection.
- Pray for young people who are institutionalized in Mumbai Observation Homes. Give God thanks for the educational assistance Sahaara’s volunteers and staff provide to children held in these juvenile detention centers—computer training, tutoring, health checkups, medical treatment, and counseling sessions, as well as follow up when they leave the facility. Pray the ministry will continue to find favor with the administrators of these detention centers.
