Cambodia
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Please pray God
will bring healing to the children of Cambodia who have been exposed to an
unknown disease that is proving to be deadly. Pray for families of the 60
children, the majority of whom were under 3 years old, who died within 24 hours
of being admitted to the hospital. Children were admitted with high fevers and
rapid deterioration of respiratory functions. Pray the World Health
Organization and Cambodian Ministry of Health will pinpoint the cause and
source of the disease and find an effective treatment for it. http://tinyurl.com/7gutuqk
Kenya
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Pray for children
and families who were at Sunday worship services earlier this month when
attackers hurled grenades into the Catholic Church and the African Inland
Church in Garissa, a north Kenya town near the border with Somalia, then opened
fire with assault rifles. http://tinyurl.com/82549gz
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Keep in prayer those
who were injured in the simultaneous assaults. Pray for the families of the 17
people killed in the attacks, possibly committed by al Shabaab sympathizers in
retaliation for Kenya sending troops into Somalia after al Qaeda-linked
insurgents. Pray for peace in this region.
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Please lift in
prayer Evon, who is between 4 and 6 years old and recently was orphaned in the
attack on the church in which they were worshipping in Garissa. Evon’s single
mother and older sibling were gunned down and killed in the July 1 attack. Pray
that God will bring comfort and peace to this little boy who is now staying
with an elderly grandmother who is too poor to care for him. Pray God will provide
a safe and loving environment for this little one. Pray for the staff and
leadership at Naomi’s Village who are investigating the possibility of bringing
Evon into this children’s home. http://naomisvillage.com/
North Korea
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Please continue
to lift the children of North Korea in prayer as food supplies are threatened
by one of the most severe droughts in 60 years.
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Pray for children
who are helping water crops by hand using bottles and buckets as there are few
large-scale irrigation systems in two southern provinces.
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Please pray that
God will provide for the children of this isolated and sanctions-bound country
that struggles to feed its people even in good years. http://tinyurl.com/74jp69o
United States
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Thanks be to God
for an innovative program called Health Leads that operates in urban clinics,
emergency rooms, and community health centers and uses volunteer college
students to help low income families get connected to local resources they may
not have known existed or had difficulty accessing. http://tinyurl.com/7sfevpm
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Pray for the volunteer
college students, many of whom are bound for careers in medicine and related fields,
who work closely with doctors, nurses, and social workers to help low income families
access basic services.
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Patients fill out
a questionnaire that identifies their unmet needs, then doctors and staff
members order “prescriptions” based on that information. Prescriptions might
include food, housing assistance, child care, help with utilities or job
training, etc. Patients then take the prescriptions to Health Leads where
volunteer college students help fill them by connecting patients to services.
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Pray for the
children and families receiving this kind of assistance and give God thanks for
the way the medical and social service systems are working together to address all
of the needs, both medical and physical, of the patient. Give thanks for this
early intervention and the meaningful impact it is having on the health and
well-being of low income children and families.
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Pray for children
of low income families who are caught in a “medical revolving door,” whose
medical needs aren’t resolved because their physical needs aren’t met. i.e.: doctors prescribe asthma medicines for
children living in cockroach or mold-infested housing, only to have the
children end up in the emergency room because their housing conditions weren’t
addressed.
Faces of Children
- Give thanks to God for the new intercessors who recently joined with Faces of Children. Thanks be to God for the opportunity to share the ministry of Faces of Children with so many people at the 2012 Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women in Orlando, Florida.
