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Give thanks to
God for the new ESTHERS Children project, the Quiet Strength Community Center,
in a small village on the outskirts of Recife. Pray for the 50 girls who come
to the center each day and thank God they have the opportunity to receive
tutoring in math, reading, and writing; take classes in music, dance, painting,
cooking and swimming; and receive instruction about nutrition and personal
hygiene. Pray for the safety of these
girls, many of whom come from families where there is drug, alcohol, physical,
or sexual abuse, or prostitution
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Pray for
10-year-old Anna* who left the Quiet Strength project and is out on the
streets, spending time in bars, and being sexually exploited. Pray God will set
Anna free from the destructive things of her past and return her to the
project. Pray for her safety and healing.
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Please pray for
14-year-old Heather* who is making very poor choices. Heather isn’t going to
school or church any longer and has dropped out of the Quiet Strength project.
Pray God will protect Heather as the home in which she lives is a place of
darkness where drugs, alcohol, sex, abuse, violence, and hunger thrive. Pray
for her safety now that she is working in a bar where many young girls are
prostituted.
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Please pray for
the young girls ESTHERS Children serves who are trapped in lives of
prostitution and/or drug trafficking. Pray God will provide safe places they
can go to escape and begin the work of healing.
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Pray for
12-year-old Nina* who is being abused and beaten by the 23-year-old drug
trafficker with whom she lives. Pray Nina will be able to escape this
situation—she isn’t allowed to see her family, go to school, leave the house,
or have anyone come into their home. Pray for her safety as this man has
threatened to kill her and her whole family if Nina’s mother tries to
prosecute.
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Pray for five
sisters, aged 10 to 18 years old, who want to leave prostitution, but don’t
have a rescue home to which they can escape. Pray God will provide a safe place
for these sisters to get away from those who are prostituting them.
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Keep in prayer
6-year-old Mary* and her 10-year-old sister Martha* whose father is introducing
them to alcohol, other men, vulgar music, and dancing with them in a vulgar
way. Pray God protects them from this predator who is grooming them for
prostitution.
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Continue to pray
for the staff and leaders of ESTHERS Children as they serve vulnerable girls
and their families. Pray God will provide the resources they need to continue
their work with at-risk girls and those who have been prostituted and abused.
United States
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Keep newborn
twins Jayke and Lilly held close in prayer during this critical time. The twins
were born one month premature and are in the neonatal intensive care unit
(NICU) of a local hospital. Pray Lilly and Jayke will gain weight and strength
during the next days and weeks. Pray for their young mother Amanda who is
recovering from a Cesarean section and pray for their young father Donald. Pray
God will provide for this family as they negotiate the challenges of caring for
premature twins.
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Please keep in
prayer student athletes injured playing football and other contact sports in
which participants seem to be hitting harder, resulting in serious injuries. Pray
for the increasingly large number of football players injured in recent games
in a community along the Texas Gulf Coast. Pray for the young man who is now in
a wheelchair with several broken vertebrae. Pray for the player who had his
collarbone broken in a game last week and for another whose ACL was torn. http://tinyurl.com/2or5s5
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Pray God will
bring healing to 18-year-old Jasmine who had surgery last week. Jasmine cannot
walk or speak due to seizures she suffered as a baby. Pray for her family and
all those who provide around the clock care for this young woman. Pray God will
encourage them as they take care of Jasmine’s every need.
Faces of Children
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Give God thanks
for the opportunity to share the ministry of Faces of Children with the
congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Harlingen, Texas last week. Thanks
be to God for all those who came to the Church Family Together dinner and
program to learn more about at-risk children and commit to praying for them.
Give thanks to God for the new prayer partners who joined with Faces of
Children following this event.
*Name changed for confidentiality and/or protection.
