Faces of Children: Prayer Concerns for This Week

Faces of Children is an ecumenical prayer ministry under the auspices of First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Our mission is to initiate ministries of prayer for children in churches, communities, and neighborhoods. In doing so, we seek to provide an opportunity for people of God to join together, learn about children and their needs throughout the world, and celebrate Christ's love (especially as it relates to children).

Prayer Concerns for the Week of 02/25/15

Australia and Australian territory in the Indian Ocean

I AM a bird in a cage,” says one 14-year-old girl. “We are getting crazy in here,” says another asylum-seeker child, locked in an Australian detention center in the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru. The drawing of a third shouts: “Help!” Other young detainees have harmed themselves, and even attempted suicide.
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• Pray for “The Forgotten Children” who arrive on boats crammed with people seeking asylum and are locked up for periods of indefinite detention on Australia’s mainland and surrounding islands.
• Pray for these children from Iran, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and many who are stateless.
• Pray for the child victims of 233 assaults and 33 reported sexual assaults while in detention.
• Pray for children in detention centers with mental problems who need psychiatric support.
• Pray the conflicting political parties will work together for the best interests and well-being of these children.
• Pray for God’s mercy, justice, and grace to cover “The Forgotten Children.”

Philippines

Children are caged to keep the streets clean for the Pope. Police round up orphans and chain them in filth during the pontiff's visit to Philippines.
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• Pray for street children in Manila who were rounded up before the Pope's arrival and put in adult jails or cages.
• Pray for children forced to sleep on floors in detention centers. Pray for children kept with adults who beat them.
• Pray for children who were starved and chained to pillars in these centers. Pray for one child who was rounded up 59 times; yet, he is still living on the streets.
• Pray for protection for the street children of the Philippines. Pray they might know the love of Jesus Christ through the compassion of his servants.

Faces of Children

• Please keep the members of the Faces of Children visioning team in prayer as they seek God’s guidance for this ministry. Pray God will bless them with a clear vision for the ministry and its future.
 • Please continue to pray that more churches and individuals will join with the ministry of Faces of Children in spreading awareness about children in crisis and inviting more people to pray for children at risk.

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If you have prayer requests about children, those who care for them, those who have authority over them, or those who harm them (the really hard prayers to say sometimes), please send them to info@facesofchildren.net