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What?
Prayer and fasting every Friday at lunchtime. This specific
time is to help us be intentional about our prayers, corporate
in our attack, unified in our approach. Through fasting we want
to both identify with the victims of human trafficking in the
world and align ourselves with God's heart in prayer for the
abolishing of it.
How?
This is easy. Join our movement by making a verbal/or email
commitment to join us. You can do this alone or get together
with some friends! Send us your commitment to "prayer @ globalgirlnetwork.com"
and we'll send you a bi-weekly email to help give you direction
as you pray. A suggested prayer guide is given below.
Where?
Weekly, this could be anywhere and everywhere—church, park,
home, coffee shop—anywhere you'd like to meet with those who
are already praying or where you like to pray yourself.
Also, every six weeks we'd like to offer a specific location
around Vancouver and the Lower Mainland where we can have a
corporate gathering of prayer focused on human-trafficking. If
your church would like to host one, please email
Danielle at sixonefour@lightspeed.ca for details.
When?
Every Friday, though you could pick a different day of the
week.
Prayer Guide for September 5, 2008:
Scripture:
“Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev. Those
who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.
He who goes out weeping, carrying seeds to sow, will return
with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.”
–Psalm 126:4-6
Reflection:
“Not only is prayer a powerful form of action, it also leads to
action. In the past seven years the world has awakened to the
atrocities of abuse, globally and locally. Governments,
business people, the Christian community, even celebrities have
begin to take action. We have seen how small prayers and small
actions led to large changes. Who knows when the scales tipped
and what prayer or what action changed the climate and brought
awareness to the suffering women of the world? The world seems
very different now and still the dream continues: Freedom for
women everywhere.”
—Gwen McVicker in
Discovering God’s Heart for Suffering, foreword to the revised
edition
Update and Prayer:
đ Please join us in praying for 40 days on behalf of the
voiceless, starting this Sunday, August 31. People around the
world are praying through the book “Discovering God’s Heart for
Suffering Women: A 40-day Prayer Pilgrimage” prior to the PASCH
(Peace and Safety in the Christian Home) conference to be held
in Washington, DC from Oct. 10-12. If you are planning to join
this next prayer pilgrimage (wherever you are in the world) or
if you would like to get a copy of the revised journal, email
us at
prayer@linwoodhouseministries.org
đ Please pray for the campaign against the widespread
practice of child brides in Yemen. Although there no
reliable national figures, according to estimates based on
surveys by university researchers and development agencies,
half of all brides in Yemen are age 18 or younger. A recent
article in The Christian Science Monitor (August 22, 2008)
reports: “Child brides are prevalent in Yemen because the
minimum marriage age of 15 was revoked a decade ago to allow
parents to decide when their daughters should marry. The ruling
abides by an interpretation of the Koran that claims there is
no prescribed age for marriage.”
Criminals find more
money in prostitution than drugs, trial told
Excerpted from: Montreal Gazette, Published on Tuesday,
November 07, 2006
“Luring young women into
prostitution has become so lucrative in Montreal, many
organized criminals choose that over dealing drugs, a Montreal
police detective specializing in sexual exploitation testified
Tuesday. As a backdrop to sentencing arguments for Alain
Jean-Pierre, 31, a metro police officer convicted of living off
the avails of prostitution, Det.-Sgt. Dominic Monchamp painted
a picture of a burgeoning business in escort agencies, massage
parlours, strip clubs and pornographic movies. He said
his specialized squad, set up in 2002 with 15 full-time
investigators, has since been reduced to eight members for the
entire province despite the rise of exploitation of
increasingly younger girls.”
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