On their website, Compassion has compiled a list of 52 specific ways to pray for your sponsored child. Each Sunday I will feature one of these. For the complete list, please go HERE.
WEEK 4:Hope: Father, I pray that you will encourage ________ to keep hoping in you and believing for your blessings at home, in school and in project activities."Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord." Psalm 31:24
This goes so well with our current community read-through of Hope Lives by Amber Van Schooneveld. If you dig down to the very roots of poverty, what you will find is a lack of hope. Give a child hope and you are giving them the first steps out of poverty.