Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily 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, Jan. 18 We ask God to renew and strengthen our resolve to end hunger and poverty and to address their root causes in our communities and the world. We promise to listen carefully to our neighbors in need so that we can work together to find appropriate, effective and sustainable solutions.

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