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
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?”
