Together with Children
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Together With Children is the blog of the Office of Child Advocacy.
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Pray for the Children of Our Hearts
October 14, 2011
Across the country today, faith communities of all kinds begin to observe the twentieth anniversary of the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths. Focus your prayers today on the children of your heart.
God our Father and Mother,
We pray for the children of our hearts—
Those whose images we carry in our wallets and whose very being is as close to us as breathing.
Their faces are etched on our souls.
We know their going out and their coming in; their feelings and their foibles;
What makes them laugh and what engenders tears.
There is nothing we would not do to make them safe and happy.
Make room in our hearts, we pray, for all those children of the world whose images are etched on the very heart of God.
You know, O god, what they need. There is nothing you would not do to make them safe and happy.
Grant us your heart for all these children, all these whom you love.
Stir us to action so that there is nothing we would not do in your name to make them safe and happy. 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. With thanks to Dr. Eileen W. Lindner for the image of the children of our wallets.
October 13, 2011
Pray for Children Who Are Malnourished
Leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths, focus your prayers today on malnourished children.- Posted at 6:00 a.m.
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October 12, 2011
Pray for Children and Public Education
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.- Posted at 2:50 p.m.
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October 10, 2011
Pray foChildren Who Are Abused and Neglected
October 10, 2011 Leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths, focus your prayers today on the 900,000 children each year who are abused and neglected in the United States.- Posted at 3:22 p.m.
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October 7, 2011
Pray for Children Living With Mental Illness
Leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths, focus your prayers today on the children and youth living with mental illness.- Posted at 7:23 a.m.
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