Worldwide Weekend of Prayer for Children at Risk

This weekend is the Worldwide Weekend of Prayer for Children at Risk. I hope that you'll take at least 60 seconds out of your busy schedule to be in prayer for children around the world, including our own country. That includes street children, homeless, hungry, poor, orphans, HIV/AIDS victims, child soldiers, child laborers, etc. If you read some of my previous posts, you will see how you can pray for these families. What a great way for your children to respond by praying.
Lay a world map on the floor, toss a bean bag (or something similar) onto a country and pray for those children.
Maybe your child could pray for a child his or her own age.
Don't let them go unnoticed. For those of you that work with and regularly pray for children at risk, thanks for all the work that you do. May God truly bless you for your faithfulness.

The Child In The Midst Who Suffers Through Hunger or Poverty

27,000 children die every day because of hunger or preventable illnesses and
100 million children live or work on the streets (UNICEF).
• More than 140 million children are malnourished and 5.6 million die every year through starvation
• The International Labour Organization (ILO), estimate that 12 million children are victims of trafficking each year, being moved from one country to another to fulfill selfish sexual needs. In India, children are exploited and end up working as slaves to pay off debts incurred by their families

Matthew 25: 44-45
They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a
stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He
will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least
of these, you did not do for me.’

Pray for -
• A greater kindness and love to be shown to those who live in poverty
• Governmental practice to improve for better distribution of relief, food and resources so that real needs are met
• Fewer deaths and less suffering through untreated diseases because people commit to giving proper attention to the needs of the poor and hungry
• New and creative ways to be found to help poor communities
• Governments to create laws in favor of children, so that better choices to break away from poverty and lack of opportunity are available
• An increase of faith in Christian communities to experience God’s supernatural intervention where necessary