Category: World YMCA Week Of Prayer

Keeping Hope Alive – Day 4: World YMCA Week of Prayer

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Day 4 Rays of Hope Week of Prayer World YMCA/YWCA – Keeping Hope Alive

World YMCA/YWCA Week of Prayer, started Sunday Nov 8, this prayer led by Tim Hallman, Director of Christian Emphasis, YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne, Indiana USA

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DAY 4: KEEPING HOPE ALIVE; FINDING PEACE AND SHARING KINDNESS
Devotion By: Winelle Kirton-Roberts, Moravian Church Pastor in French-speaking Switzerland

BIBLICAL INSPIRATION: Genesis 16:7,8, 13a, b.
“The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness along the road to Shur. The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?”… Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer to the LORD who had spoken to her. She said, “you are the God who sees me!”

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
• What are the ways to connect with international students to facilitate conversations on fear, disappointment, and neglect?
• How might the thought of Psalm 91: 11-12 be shared with international students?
• Is there an opportunity to be strengthened in faith during this season?”

Day 3: Call to Action Against Social Injustice – World YMCA Week of Prayer

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World YMCA/YWCA Week of Prayer, started Sunday Nov 8, this prayer led by Tim Hallman, Director of Christian Emphasis, YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne, Indiana USA

Day 3 Rays of Hope World YMCA/YWCA Week of Prayer – Call to Action against Social Injustices

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DAY 3: ADDRESSING SOCIAL INJUSTICES IN OURCOMMUNITIES: A CALL TO ACTION Devotion By Rosângela S. Oliveira, Executive Director of World Day of Prayer International Committee


BIBLICAL INSPIRATION: John 5:1-9a
“After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.” Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.”

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
• What do you want “to be made well” in your community?
• What are the initiatives that can make your community “stand up, take the mat and walk”?
• What are your words of hope?”

Breathing Together: Day 1 Rays of Hope World YMCA Week of Prayer

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Day 1: Rays of Hope – A prayer of global solidarity that God would give us strength to be resilient and courageous.

World YMCA/YWCA Week of Prayer, starts Sunday Nov 8, this prayer led by Tim Hallman, Director of Christian Emphasis, YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne, Indiana USA

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DAY 1 – BREATHING TOGETHER IN SOLIDARITY
Devotion By: Elaine Neuenfeldt, Act Alliance Gender Programme Manager
“At times of catastrophes and calamities it is difficult to breathe. Catastrophes are not affecting everyone equally – they tend to intensify inequalities and exacerbate injustices.”


BIBLICAL INSPIRATION: “In the Old Testament story, there is this story of the widows of the famine, the widow of drought, in the book of Kings Chapter 17“

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
• What makes us feel the warm and tender touch of life back to our body?
• Where the compassionate touch of love that nurtures our faith and hope can be experienced in today’s world, where individualism, loneliness, and indifference for human suffering are a daily reality. How can we, as individuals and as community / congregation of faith work as a space where the touches of compassion, that bring back life can be felt?
• How can we do all this “touching” when physical distance is required as part of sanitary measures in times of the pandemic?”