World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

Prayers for Europe

Record heat, and then the wildfires: much of what is prayed for Europe here follows a warming continent, along with floods and rivers like the Rhine falling too low for cargo to move. These prayers also hold the millions of Ukrainians who found refuge here and the long effort to bring Russia and Ukraine to direct talks.

The World Is a Needy Place: Prayers for Cook Stoves, Girls, and Central Africa (November 7, 2013)

Creative and guiding spirit, We bring this prayer with particular remembrance that, just as we shall always have the poor among us, so it is also our work to notice and to help. We pray earnestly for the strength of vision and of mind to respond thoughtfully to needs throughout the world, such as: –The […]

May Your Footsteps Show: A Prayer for Migrants Lost in the Niger Desert (October 31, 2013)

Creator God, by your word and in your power, you have created us and our world. As we learn more of you, so we come to realize how powerful is your word.  In your company I’ll go where your love and footsteps show. Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.  (John L. Bell […]

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