Need Hope Today? Guide Your Prayers with These 3 Scriptures
When was the last time you felt good about the future? Many of us spend our days watching negative news stories flash across our screens. We try our best to avoid heated debates on politics and religion with friends and family members. We see division growing in our churches, schools, and communities. It’s no surprise that we often find hope…
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Pray for Healing for Persecuted Christians in Niger
In 2015, Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group, set out to destroy Christian communities in Niamey and Zinder, Niger. These mobs looted homes, ransacked businesses, destroyed missionary schools, and burned down churches. Many Christians were robbed of their possessions and even beaten for their faith. These gruesome events left thousands of Christians trauma-stricken and overwhelmed with grief. But God’s Word…
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Pray for Mexican Leaders Engaging Vulnerable Youth with Scripture
It isn’t uncommon for a 7-year-old in Mexico to transport drugs across the border for a drug cartel, to get into fights at school, or even to take part in gang activity. That’s the reality for millions of children and youth in Mexico. Many live in exceptionally tough environments. In order to reach these children with the hope found in…
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Prayer Request: Reaching Youth in Serbia with the Bible
In a recent trip to Serbia, Marco Herrera, Managing Director of American Bible Society’s Mission Global team wrote: “I visited an Orthodox church where 70 young people from the community meet every week for a time of Bible reading. Christian leaders from the Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical churches facilitate these Bible study groups. These youngsters come from different family, social,…
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Pray for Emotional and Spiritual Healing for Exiled Women in Ghana
In remote communities in Ghana, a 150-year-old tradition allows women falsely accused of witchcraft to be exiled from their homes and sent to “women’s camps” in the northern part of the country. Already suffering the trauma of being torn from their families, these women are then forced to live in overcrowded mud houses and are often beaten. But many women…
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How to Find Sabbath Rest in a Globalizing World
Several weeks ago I attended the Q Conference. This year’s gathering in Nashville brought together Christian leaders and innovators to present their ideas, movements, and research in a series of nine-minute TED-style talks. I listened to each segment with a quickening heart. I wanted to take action. Dream bigger. Put all this new information into practice and impact the world.…
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Pray for a New Bible for Young Quiché Speakers
Young Quiché speakers in Guatemala cannot read their Bibles. Why? Mayan Languages Academy in Guatemala recently created a new alphabet for the Quiché language, which means Quiché children and youth are being taught a different alphabet than the outdated one printed in their Bibles. Manuela Cotiy Suy, a young Quiché speaker said, “Now I cannot read the Bible because there…
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