This week in Oceania:
As you read and pray, consider those most impoverished who are affected by these natural and man-made disasters.
Do you know where your morning coffee is grown?
There’s a speciality coffee roastery we love in the city that always gives a little index card with your brew so you can learn more about the beans, who’s growing them, the elevation they’re growing at, etc. While that’s a fun concept for coffee enthusiasts like us, there’s so much more you can take from this.
Nick has started using those little cards over espresso to learn more about the region his beans come from. Often, these farming areas are impoverished, suffering increasingly volatile climate swings, and as is the case throughout South / Central America, often dangerous due to cartel presence. He takes that knowledge from that specific area and pauses to pray for those making his coffee, a reminder of how interconnected our world truly is.
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Let me start by saying that this is why we wanted to start doing these prayer times. We’ve felt a tremendous desire to do more as we look at tragedies, wars beginning overnight – and like so many around the globe feel helpless as the sight of so much suffering.
Continue reading “Lent Prayer Week 3: Iran & Western Asia Turmoil”Throughout Lent, we are gathering from around the globe to pray for the nations. If you’d like to join us, we’ll be sharing these prayer resources weekly here (and you can sign up to get a weekly email with the resources HERE.) We hope you’ll join us to pray, lament, and find hope as we look for where God is at work.
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
Amos 5:24 (NRSV)
Throughout Lent, we are gathering from around the globe to pray for the nations. If you’d like to join us, we’ll be sharing these prayer resources weekly here (and you can sign up to get a weekly email with the resources HERE.) We hope you’ll join us to pray, lament, and find hope as we look for where God is at work.
“My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours. We belong in a bundle of life.” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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