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).Invitation to Prayer, WEDNESDAY
Hi Friends,
Thank you for joining me in prayer for the children of the world. If you can, we'd love to have you pray together with us this Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., in the gym conference room at First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas, followed by lunch together.
Also, Faces of Children is now on Facebook ! I invite you to like our page so that you can see regular stories, prayer needs, and updates from partner ministries.
All the best,
Carrie
Dear Intercessors,
We just finished VBS, and for our VBS Missions Project this year, we raised money to send to one of our partner ministries, Partners Relief and Development. The purpose of Partner's is to work for free and full lives for Myanmar's children, and the money sent will be used by Partner's to help them buy relief supplies for members of the Rohingya ethnic group who are forced to live in concentration camps in Myanmar. For the next few weeks, I thought I would share what we did in VBS. For those of you with children, each one of these has a corresponding learning activity that can be done to help further explain the situation.
The Rohingya children used to be able to go to schools. Now that they live in the camps, there are not many schools. When the camps were first formed, a few organizations came in and built schools and supplied them with basic school supplies, but that was many years ago and a lot of the supplies have run out. Even for the schools that have supplies, there often aren't any teachers! We asked the children what school would be like without teachers. You'll have to ask your kids what they think that would be like. We also asked the kids to color pictures of a rainbow, but we had a shortage of different colored crayons! They had to figure out how to color the rainbow the way they wanted it to be colored when there weren't enough supplies to easily do it.
A prayer for you and your kids to say together: Dear Jesus, We know that right now there are Rohingya children just like my friends and me who don't get to go to school. Even though it is fun to have a summer break or time off from school, it also would be really boring if we never got to go. Please be with the Rohingya children who want to learn but don't have the opportunity. Please help groups like Partner's bring in supplies and train community leaders to help provide some education for these kids. And more than anything, Jesus, please help the Rohingya children know that they are loved and that their lives were created for a purpose! Please give them direction and hope for the future. Amen.
Sincerely,
Carrie
Carrie J. McKean
Faces of Children Director
First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas
(432) 684-7821 x153
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
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