Tumekutana

Pray for these women

Conference Planning Team

• that we are faithful witnesses to Jesus Christ
  throughout the planning process and the entire conference
• for wisdom & perseverance
• for unity of spirit

Speakers

• that they all may participate as planned
• for their messages and discussions with the participants

Logistics

• transportation for each of the participants within their country and to/from Kenya
• for the visas for the nearly 60 women
• for the materials
• for translation/translators
• for the team on the ground in Kenya arranging
  publicity, site visits, in country transport, security,
  hospitality and medical care
• for continuing coordination with the conference
  venue:

Participants

• that we are able to contact them
• that adequate funds will be raised for each one to
  participate
• that she’ll be able to communicate in either French
  or English
• that her own denomination will allow her to
  participate
• that she will be able to manage the logistics
  necessary to travel
• that the conference be a chance for her to learn,
  share, worship and be encouraged by and with other
  women facing challenges similar to those of her
  own
• that she comes away with fresh energy and ideas
  of how to face the challenges that she faces in her
  life and the life of her family and church
• that she experiences the love of God and the grace
  of our Lord Jesus Christ in new and powerful ways
• that she knows she is LOVED and cared for and
  prayed for by Presbyterian Women throughout
  Africa and in the United States

Funds

• That $35,000 be raised for scholarships for the
  women including the plenary speakers, materials,
  funding, translation, logistics, etc.

Reflect

Then your light will break forth like the dawn

Isaiah 58:1-12 (NIV)

1 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back.
Raise your voice like a trumpet.
Declare to my people their rebellion
and to the house of Jacob their sins.

2 For day after day they seek me out;
they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
and has not forsaken the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
and seem eager for God to come near them.

3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say,
‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?’
“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit all your workers.

4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard on high.

5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.

11 The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with dwellings.”