Prayers for Peacemakers, January 2, 2013

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  Epixel* for January 6, 2013
 

And
having been warned in a dream not to return to 
Herod, they left for their own
country by another road.
                                                      -Matthew 2:12

Related article: Twelve Peacemakers of Christmas,
Part 1
 (fuller profiles on CPT’s Facebook page)

*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, January 2, 2013

Pray for eight peacemakers-in-training this month in Chicago. Give thanks for God’s faithful walk with them. Beg the Spirit of Jesus to encourage and prepare them — heart, mind, body and soul — for team ministry ushering out the dominion of oppression and war.

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