China (New
Day Foster Home – www.newdaycreations.com/foster/)
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Give God thanks
for the work of the staff, volunteers, and supporters of New Day Foster Home in
providing a loving home for orphaned children with special needs. Pray God will
give the staff and volunteers the strength and energy to care for babies and
children with acute medical conditions.
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Thanks be to God 9-month-old
Anna Rose is doing better in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a local hospital
and that she is off the ventilator now. Pray she will be released from the ICU
soon and will continue to get stronger. http://tinyurl.com/d8ezwua
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Please continue
to pray for 6-month-old Annabel who is still in the ICU and battling a serious
lung infection. Pray God will bring complete healing to this little one. http://tinyurl.com/dxhfagm
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Pray for all of
the children at New Day Foster Home as many are sick with the flu. Pray for the
seven children currently in the hospital and the additional three children that
need daily intravenous fluid treatment. Pray the health and immune systems of
each child will grow stronger. http://tinyurl.com/b7b6lmf
Democratic Republic of Congo
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Please keep the
children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held close in prayer
during a time of great violence and conflict. M23 rebels, an armed group
thought to be backed by Rwanda, began fighting the Congolese army last April over
conflict about terms of a previous peace agreement with the government.
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Pray peace
negotiations between rebels and the DRC government will be successful in
halting the violence. Please pray for peace in this war-torn region. http://tinyurl.com/d8frjpz
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Pray for the
estimated 200,000 children who are at risk of recruitment by armed groups, and
who are also at risk of rape, hunger, and disease. Pray for children who become
separated from their parents or families when fleeing the violence. Please pray
for unaccompanied children who are at even greater risk of being forcibly
recruited to fight rebels or government forces. http://tinyurl.com/bnl8hmn
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Pray for people
displaced around Goma following a recent attack on that city by M23 rebels.
Please keep the estimated 2.2 million internally displaced people (IDPs) of
Congo in prayer as they struggle to survive in displacement camps. Pray for IDP
children and families who are displaced over and over again because of
increased violence in the region.
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Please pray for
the girls in this part of the DRC—sexual violence is rampant in eastern Congo,
an area that hasn’t seen true peace since the end of the 1998-2003 war. Pray for
girl children, most between the ages of eight and 17, who have been raped in
this epidemic of sexual violence. Pray for their healing and safety.
United States
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Pray God will
keep Veronica*, a teenage girl living on a Native American reservation in
northern Minnesota, safe from harm. Pray reservation authorities will protect
Veronica and enforce the restraining order against her father who beats her and
has threatened to kill her. Give God thanks for the teacher who noticed this
abuse and intervened. Pray for Veronica’s father…that God will bring healing to
this man and stop his violent behavior.
*Name changed for confidentiality and/or protection.
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Please keep the
four children of slain police officer Tom Decker close in prayer as they grieve
their father’s death. Hold close in prayer 8-year-old Kelly, 7-year-old Jade,
6-year-old Justin, and 5-year-old Devon during this very difficult time in
their young lives. The children’s father was killed last month in an ambush. Pray
for God’s comforting presence for these hurting children as they enter the
Christmas season without their father. Pray for their mother as she helps her
children through the grieving process and as she mourns her ex-husband. http://tinyurl.com/b8vhbjs
Faces of Children
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Continue to keep
23-year-old Meaghan, the daughter of a Faces of Children intercessor, in prayer
as she recovers from surgery for thyroid cancer. Pray her surgeons removed all
trace of cancer and that she will heal completely. Please pray God will comfort
Meaghan, her parents, and her brother throughout this frightening season.
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Thanks and praise
to God for the safe delivery of a healthy baby girl, Hayley Reese Starr, on
November 28 for parents Elyse and Ryan Starr. Give God thanks for God’s
comforting and calming presence throughout the delivery process. Please
continue to pray for this little one, her parents, and grandparents—Chris and
Jeff Laufer, and Lynn and Jim Starr—who are Faces of Children prayer partners.
