Prayers for Peacemakers, November 14, 2012

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November 18 epixel*

“Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman,
for I
have been speaking out of my great anxiety
and vexation all this time.”      -1
Samuel 1:16

 
*epixel: a snapshot-epistle to the churches related
to and appearing with a text from the upcoming
Sunday’s Revised Common Lectionary readings.

Prayers for Peacemakers, November 14, 2012

Give thanks for the freedom, after eight months
of imprisonment, of Colombian mother and peacebuilder Claudia Maria Mayorga, for her and her family’s witness that
landed her there, and for seeing them all faithfully through a season of
apostolic endurance.

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