Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day 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, June 19 Juneteenth This day of celebration, dating back to June 19, 1865, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We give thanks and praise to God for creating humankind in all its diversity, and ask God’s forgiveness for yielding to fear, suspicion and intolerance of others. We ask God to guide and strengthen our work of including all people in the church and society.