Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook


The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer.

Photo by Nancy Smith-Mather
Today in the Mission Yearbook: June 4, 2019

SOUTH SUDAN - Squeezed together with girls about her same age, Mary sat on a bamboo pew in the sanctuary. It was the first morning of a three-day children’s trauma healing workshop. The list of things written in her new notebook included: too much housework, loss of my parents and missing school.

Mary’s parents died when she was 7. She is now 17, living in Bidi Bidi refugee camp with a woman she calls “stepmother.” Mary was not alone in lamenting the increase in housework in the camps ...

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