Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions 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.

Thursday, Nov. 3: During National Adoption Awareness Month, we remember in our prayers infants, children and youth in need of safe and loving homes, and we give thanks for parents who open their hearts, lives and homes to them through adoption and foster care.

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