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October 12, 2011
Leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths, focus your prayers today on the 50 million children being served by our nation’s public education system.
More than eight of every ten Black and Latino fourth graders and almost six out of ten White fourth graders cannot read at grade level.
The United States has the sixth lowest high school graduation rate among the thirty countries that are OECD members
Teacher God,
Today we remember children who long to learn and to have a teacher. Provide for their needs through a parent, a caregiver, a mentor, or a friend. Open our hearts to a sense of call to be such a person for children in our midst.
Help us remember children who get the wrong kind of education: education that takes away their innocence and wounds their spirit, education from circumstances that harm them. Protect children with street smarts, guardians around them, and any means at hand. Help us rise up to ensure the education that gives life and helps children thrive in adulthood.
We pray for governments and systems that bring education to the masses or that withhold education for some. Remind us that sometimes these powers are the same. Help us to discern how to best educate children, providing tools and resources to equalize education for boys and girls, for children in inner cities and suburbs, for all God’s children. Help us to honor unique gifts and the many ways children learn and grow in knowledge and wisdom.
Teach us, O Lord. Teach us through Christ our Lord. Amen.
- From “And How Are the Children?: The View at the End of the Decade”. Insert in the 2010 Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study.
- Posted at 2:50 p.m.
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