Prayer Room
WEEK 4 – THE LOCAL RESPONSE: COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP
Audrey Singue, African Volunteer (Mozambique) shares the prayer focus for this week, the local response: community ownership
A core value of Hands at Work is our commitment to local community ownership. It is essential for local people who have hearts of compassion to serve their community through grace, love and sacrificial giving. Through this, complete transformation can take place.
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On Sundays, we pause to anticipate the coming of Easter Sunday and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
“Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” – John 16:31-33
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Day 16 – Teams and Partners
“Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.” – Isaiah 58:10
Across the world, Hands at Work has partners who have committed to supporting communities in Africa. Thank God for their commitment. Groups of people have come together to pray, raise support, to send teams, and to build a relationship with Hands at Work. Pray for these relationships to continually grow stronger and deeper.
Many of these partners send teams to serve with Hands at Work on the ground in Africa yearly. Pray for each team who will be coming to Africa in 2019. Ask God to give each person a willing heart to experience all that He has for them in Africa. Pray for transformation in their hearts and lives, and pray for strength and boldness as they return home and share their stories and experiences.
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Day 15 – International Volunteers
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" – Isaiah 6:8
Pray for our International Volunteers, who commit to serving the most vulnerable on the ground in Africa. As many of them are away from their families, ask God to give them peace and encouragement. Pray that they will grow deeper in understanding God’s heart for justice and their calling to serve the most vulnerable.
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At Hands at Work, our volunteers are called by God from all over the world to serve the most vulnerable in Africa. Each of us has a unique story of how we were transformed when we stepped out in faith and were obedient to His call. Today, we encourage you to read stories of how volunteers from across the world were called by God to serve the most vulnerable. https://www.handsatwork.org/newsroom/?tag=Our+Calling
Day 14 – International Church and International Offices
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” – Galatians 5:13-14
Hands at Work believes that the International Church has a responsibility to live out the Biblical Mandate of caring for the most vulnerable together with the local African church. Pray for the International Church to respond the crisis of poverty and injustice across Africa. In AU, CA, the UK and the US, Hands at Work has International Offices, existing to support, challenge and encourage the church in caring for the most vulnerable. Volunteers in these offices desire transformation, not only to the lives of the most vulnerable in Africa, but to their own church and community. Ask God to continually give them unity and passion as they respond to the cry of the broken.
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Day 13- Pastors
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. – 2 Timothy 4:2
Many of the pastors in the local church have a strong influence in their churches. Pray that they would recognise the responsibility that they carry as a pastor and that they would speak truth and hope to their congregations. Pray that they will be deeply rooted in the promises and love of God, so that others may be brought to Christ through them.
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