Prayers for Peacemakers, September 3,
2014
Pray for the people of Gaza, tens of
thousands of whom remain homeless.
Aid organizations estimate that if Israel and Egypt continue to restrict
the importation of construction materials into Gaza, the rebuilding of homes
and infrastructure destroyed in the war this summer could take twenty years.
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