World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015

He cried out, “I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”  Mark1:24b (NRSV) Surrounded by the presence of the Holy One of God, let us pray together. Holy One, we gather in worship this morning seeking your presence, your grace and your wisdom. Humbly we gather to hear your words of hope and […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”  Mark 1:14-15   We know, Lord, that you call us to a far wider agenda than proclaiming good news and […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, Jan.15, 2015

Throughout the world, this Sunday marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and so together we pray for the church of Christ, that we may all be one. Litany of Thanksgiving Because I love you, O my people, I was born in Bethlehem. They called me Emmanuel, for I am God […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, January 8, 2015

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord. Proverbs 21:30 The rich and the poor have this in common, the Lord is the Maker of them all. Proverbs 22:2 Lord, when will You tear the heavens apart to make Your will known and show Your might?   Yes, I […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Christmas 2014

On this Christmas day, may we all recommit ourselves to love, to life, to saying “yes” to God’s unexpected invitations.  To seeking and meeting the Holy in unexpected places, in the powerless and the hungry, the vulnerable and the longing. May this be a year of hope, and joy. Of giving birth, from the deepest […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 11, 2014

World in Prayer, Dec. 11th   Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come. With your abundant grace and might, free us from the sin that would obstruct your mercy, that willingly we might bear your redeeming love to all the world.   We long for this stirring, O God, as we look around our […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014

Oh. Dear. God. No.  Not again. I thought I knew what I was going to write for tonight’s prayers. And then I turned on the computer, and read that in the United States, yet another unarmed Black man had been shot, dead, by a police officer. Jesus. I am speechless, beyond shock. Everything I could […]

World News This Week in Prayer – November 27th 2014

“Praise and thanksgiving, Father we offer, for all things living you have made good” Hymn by Albert F.Bayly Father at the start of a new Christian year we offer our thanksgiving for all the mercies we have received over the past years. Despite the snow and difficult traveling conditions for many in Canada and the […]