Central African Republic
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Please keep close
in prayer the children of Central African Republic (CAR) who are severely
malnourished and desperately in need of humanitarian aid. The child
malnutrition and mortality rates in CAR are the highest they’ve been and are
three times the level the World Health Organization deems acute. http://tinyurl.com/m7wathr
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Pray for the
200,000 children and people who have been displaced by violence in CAR
following a coup in March and increased attacks by rebels and criminal gangs.
Pray God will provide for those who have fled into the bush and have no food,
shelter, or medical care. What limited services there were available before the
coup were stopped by the rebels. Pray for children in the bush who are dying from
malaria and diarrhea.
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Pray for
stability and peace in CAR. Pray humanitarian groups may reach children and
families in desperate need of aid. Rebels and criminals have looted aid
warehouses and clinics, causing aid workers to flee the country.
China (New
Day Foster Home – http://www.newdaycreations.com/foster/)
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Please continue
in prayer for 8-month-old Mark who has biliary atresia and is hospitalized in
serious condition awaiting a liver transplant. Doctors are concerned Mark will
go into liver failure before a liver becomes available.
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Pray God will
bring healing and comfort to Mark. This little one was abandoned when he was 4
months old and taken to a local orphanage. Because of the severity of the
gastrointestinal defects with which Mark was born, he was transferred to New
Day Foster Home last month. http://tinyurl.com/kw5gwmh http://tinyurl.com/kjw6udo http://tinyurl.com/kc3zfeu
Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Syria,
and South Sudan
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Pray for children
who are displaced within their own countries. An estimated 28.8 million people
were displaced from their homes in 2012 and that number continues to grow. Pray
for internally displaced people (IDPs) who face the same challenges as refugees
in addition to even more obstacles. IDPs aren’t always as visible as refugees,
they often depend on a government that is intent on displacing them, and aid
groups often have a difficult time getting to them because of governmental
hurdles. http://tinyurl.com/ocxeeam
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Please keep in
prayer the children of Colombia who have been forced from their homes by gangs
and armed paramilitary groups. Columbia has the largest number of IDPs and many
have been displaced for decades.
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Pray for
displaced children and people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Syria,
and South Sudan.
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Please pray God
will provide for all children and people who are displaced in their own
countries. Pray for the resources needed to help IDPs, that humanitarian
organizations will have greater access to those in need, and for increased
security for those groups working with IDPs.
Guatemala
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Pray for God’s protection
and healing to be upon 4-year-old Danny who had his fingers deliberately cut
off by family members as a form of punishment. Pray for this precious child… that
he might know he is a beloved child of God and that he will grow strong in this
knowledge.
Thailand
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Pray for
12-year-old Penny* who is now on her own after her mother’s recent arrest for
illegal drug use. Penny’s father works on an island in southern Thailand and
her grandmother lives in a tribal village in the mountains. Give God thanks
Penny has been involved in the Garden of Hope’s children’s outreach program for
the last four years and has been able to stay there temporarily until a more
suitable arrangement can be made.
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Pray for the
safest and best possible placement for Penny during the month and a half her
mother is in rehab. Pray she will still be able to go to school and participate
in the afterschool program at the Garden of Hope where she receives much
support. Pray God will bring healing and wholeness to Penny’s mother…that God
will remove this addiction from her. http://www.thegardenofhope.org/ * Name changed for confidentiality and/or protection.
Faces of Children
- Give God thanks for the opportunity to share the ministry of Faces of Children with Presbyterian Women at the 2013 Synod of the Sun Gathering in Houston, Texas last weekend. Give God thanks for the new prayer partners who joined with Faces of Children at this gathering.
