Afghanistan
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Please pray for
the more than 15,000 children in southeastern Afghanistan who are deprived of
an education by the Taliban. Militants have forced 50 schools to close in
retaliation for a government ban on motorcycles in a region where insurgents
were using them to carry out assassinations. http://tinyurl.com/7qsharj
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Pray for teachers
and students who have been and continue to be threatened by Taliban militants.
Please pray for teachers who are robbed of their paychecks by Taliban fighters
who use the money to purchase weapons.
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Pray for peace
and stability in this region.
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo,
South Sudan
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Continue to keep
in prayer children and people who are affected by the violence of the Lord’s
Resistance Army (LRA), a brutal militia that’s abducted tens of thousands of
children over the past three decades and is now thought to be operating in the
Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan.
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Pray for the
estimated 3,400 children and people who have been kidnapped by the LRA and for
the families of the more than 2,400 who have been killed by this militia. Pray
for those who have been forced from their homes and villages by the LRA…last
year, 466,000 people were displaced by them. http://tinyurl.com/7jdv2wu
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Keep in prayer
17-year-old Jeanne, who was raped by a soldier in the LRA, and her 3-year-old son,
Dieu Donné (whose name means “God Given”) who was the product of this violent
assault. Please pray for Jeanne’s emotional and physical healing. Pray her son
will be accepted in the community and not ostracized because of the
circumstances of his birth.
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Please pray for
kidnapped children, some as young as 9 years old, who were forced to be sex slaves
or soldiers…who were forced to mutilate victims…and for those who were forced
to kill family members or friends.
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Keep in prayer
communities who are so terrified of possible attacks by LRA soldiers that they
grab whatever belongings they can collect and hide in the bush until the threat
has passed, sometimes for several days.
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Pray for an end
to this deadly violence and destruction.
United States
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Please keep
2-year-old Lily Kate held close in prayer as she receives treatment at
Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia for Kawasaki disease. http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/heart/kawasaki.html
Pray for her parents and extended family as they care for her and make
decisions about her medical care. Pray she will gain strength and be able to
come home soon. Pray for God’s healing touch upon Lily Kate.
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Pray that God
will bring comfort and peace to the children of U.S. military personnel
deployed to war zones. Pray for those who provide care for the children of
deployed service men and women. Please pray God will provide these caregivers
with strength, stamina, and encouragement as they care for such vulnerable
children. Please pray that God’s comforting presence will be with children whose
parents have been killed in areas of conflict or war.
Faces of Children
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Give God thanks
for the opportunity to share the ministry of Faces of Children at the
Presbyterian Women’s Birthday Dinner at First Presbyterian Church in Rockport,
Texas last week. Praise God for the new intercessors at FPC, Rockport who have
committed to pray for children through Faces of Children. And thanks be to God
for the way in which this church’s leadership has embraced Faces of Children
and their plans to incorporate prayer for children in the ministry of their
church.
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Please pray that
God will comfort Madelyn, the 2-year-old granddaughter of a Faces of Children
prayer partner, during a very difficult period in her young life. Pray for
peace and reconciliation between Madelyn’s parents who have been using their
daughter as a pawn between them. Please pray they will realize the damage they
are inflicting on this little girl who seems to cry all the time. Pray for
healing and civility in Madelyn’s parents’ relationship. Pray God will give her
grandparents discernment in how to handle this situation.
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Continue to keep
Pamela, the sister of a Faces of Children intercessor, in prayer as she is
hospitalized for complications from pancreatic cancer. Pray that God’s healing
hand will be upon Pamela and bring her peace.
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Please pray for
Claire, the 13-year-old granddaughter of a Faces of Children prayer partner.
Pray her physicians will be able to accurately diagnose and treat this teenage
girl.
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Give thanks to
God for 26-year-old Brittany’s latest test results that show no growth or
recurrence of the cancer in her skull. Please pray for her complete healing and
the peace that surpasses all understanding.
