Prayers for Peacemakers, October 9, 2014

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Prayers for Peacemakers, October 9, 2014

Pray for the children of Hebron’s Old City who are subject to arbitrary arrest and detention without due process and since the start of the school year, have had more than 100 tear gas grenades fired at them.

Epixel* for Sunday, October 12, 2014

For You have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the
rainstorm and a shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm… 
                                                                                                                                                             Isaiah 25:4
*epixel: a snapshot-epistle to the churches related to and appearing with a text from the upcoming Sunday’s Revised Common Lectionary readings.
 

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