Every Monday, Living Lutheran offers a week’s worth of prayers from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions – one for each day this week – are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.
Monday, Jan. 11: Work is being done with local partners in the new nation of South Sudan to establish the Evangelical Lutheran Church Africa Mission. We pray that support will grow for this new ethnically and culturally diverse church, its leaders and ministry programs.
Tuesday, Jan. 12: Our 132 outdoor ministry sites engage 3,500 staff in service every summer. We ask God’s blessings on directors as they begin recruiting young adults to be in ministry with people of all ages and abilities.
Wednesday, Jan. 13: The wounds and divisions between people in our country seem to be deepening. We plead to God that we will learn how to build new, more resilient bridges of understanding and compassion and be reminded that we were created from the beginning to care for one another.
Thursday, Jan. 14: We pray that the world may know God’s love is steadfast and true, a dependable refuge for all people in every circumstance.
Friday, Jan. 15: We remember in our prayers care providers and companions who attend to the needs of people with cognitive or physical disabilities, older adults and the ill and ask God that they find the strength, rest and encouragement needed to continue in their work.
Saturday, Jan. 16: We hold in prayer leaders of nations working together for resolution of conflicts and war, the wellbeing of refugees and immigrants, care for the environment, economic justice and the development of new working partnerships.
Sunday, Jan. 17: We give thanks for the miraculous changes that transpire in us as a result of God’s loving and merciful attentiveness.