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El Salvador - Prayer Ventures
For ministry
Merciful God, we thank you for the Salvadoran Lutheran Synod and the mission
established there in the name of your Son where Christianity continues to grow.
Bless the Lutherans in El Salvador and in our country as we work together to
spread the Good News about your love and compassion.
For current needs
Gracious God, we pray for everyone in El Salvador as they continue to recover
economically from earthquakes in 2001. Strengthen them in their efforts and help them find
ways to organize their economic system in a way that will promote long-term
stability. Help them maintain peace and work together to promote
non-violent resolution of conflicts in a world that remains without everlasting
global unity.
For those serving
Great and Loving God, we ask for your continuing support of the work done by
missionaries in El Salvador as the synod strives to spread the Good News of your
everlasting love and forgiveness. Guide them as they communicate in with others
and help them embrace the blessings offered by Christians around the world so
that we might understand and pass on the diverse ways in which your love comes
to us.
For companion relationships
God of compassion, we give thanks for the Companion Synod Program of the ELCA
which allows ELCA synods and congregations to develop more personal
relationships with our global Christian neighbors. We pray especially for the
Greater Milwaukee Area Synod, Metropolitan Washington Synod, and the Sierra
Pacific Synod of the ELCA as they relate to the synod in El
Salvador through prayer and communication, that they might find new meaning in
these global connections.
For church leadership
God of Wisdom, your insight and guidance fill our lives. Show us new ways to
understand your power and presence within us. Thank you for the Synod of El
Salvador and for those who continue to share your message. Help those preaching
and ministering to the members of the synod, that they might understand and
share the Holy Gospel in order to strengthen your ministry in El Salvador.
For open hearts
God our Creator, you make all people part of your family. You make all that is
good in our lives and fill us with your everlasting love. Bless us as we learn
more about our sisters and brothers in El Salvador. Help us to embrace our
common blessing in serving you. Open our eyes to the gifts you give us in each
other. Guide us to build bridges between our cultures and our churches. We ask
these things in the name we name together, your precious Son, Jesus Christ.
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