Pray for Africa...

Will you take a minute to pray for those suffering...

Pray for Africa

We pray for healing.
We pray that you will lay your hands on brothers and sisters of Africa: the mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons.
We pray that you will touch their lives with your presence, your love, and your grace. We pray that you will heal their hearts and minds with the gift of life.

We pray that you will heal the church. We pray that you will touch the hearts, minds, and souls of religious communities with your compelling hand of truth. We pray that you will heal our fears, our anxiety, and our prejudice that we might live lives of faith, hope, and love to touch those suffering from HIV/AIDS.

We pray for salvation.

We pray that you will lift up our brothers and sisters of Africa from the mire of pain, horror and disease. We pray that you will offer the gift of salvation to those who are dying. We pray that you will bless them with hope in the light of love.

We pray for doctors, nurses, caregivers, and researchers. We pray that you will offer wisdom, compassion, and faith. We pray that you will bless them with an intellect to boldly imagine a world without AIDS, a vision for a new generation of medical care and an unconditional love for those who are dying without hope for treatment.

We pray for support.
We pray that you will provide for our brothers and sisters of Africa. We pray that you will comfort them in time of need. We pray that you will provide food for the hungry, clothes for the naked, a home for the homeless, and medical treatment for those who cannot afford such a luxury. We pray that you will provide your orphans with good families that will raise them in love.

We pray for our pharmaceutical companies, our corporations, and our religious communities. We pray that each institution will find it in their hearts and minds to offer monetary support by way of funding, medical treatment, and community-oriented aid.

We pray that institutions will advance in bringing “the kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven” by dropping the debt, providing aid, and promoting trade in Africa.

We pray for compassion.

We pray that you will instill in the hearts of complacent Americans a vicarious understanding of suffering-mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally-of those dying with AIDS in Africa. We pray compassion on the cold hearts of those who cling to ignorance and in difference. We pray for compassion on those who are compelled to combat the virus, the suffering, and the death. We pray compassion for the world as we attempt to wage a war against a deadly disease that is killing our brothers and sisters. We pray for compassion for life itself.

O God, hear our prayer.