July 2008 Prayer Calendar

New month...new prayer calendar. Here it is for all you pray-ers out there...

WEEK 1
Tuesday 1
We praise God for the successful HIV/AIDS awareness program held for the parents of children in the Khirpai Child Development Center in eastern India.

Wednesday 2
Pray for 11-year-old Ruth Carmen Rojas Morales and her family in Peru. Their home was destroyed by a fire.

Thursday 3
Please pray for Geeta, who works as a cook at the Anurag Child Development Center in India. She has bone cancer and needs healing.

Friday 4
Pray for the government in Haiti to enact effective and swift measures to address the famine and economic crisis gripping the nation.

Saturday 5
Pray for protection for the children and staff of Compassion partner CDI Vida-Centro de Desenvolvimento Integral Vida in Recife, Brazil. Armed drug suppliers are fighting for territory, sometimes directly in front of the child development center.

WEEK 2
Sunday 6
We thank God for the new staff at the Philippines Country Office: IT Specialist Rafel Mangulabnan and Partnership Facilitators Jesse Calvano, Felipe De Leon Jr. and Ryan Caspe.

Monday 7
Pray for a speedy recovery for 3-month-old Sivabala, at the Rhema Child Survival Program in Vellanguli, India, who had kidney surgery.

Tuesday 8
Pray for God's strength and comfort for the family of Meita Londah, a tutor at the Tunas Kasih Student Center in Indonesia who died of uterine cancer.

Wednesday 9
Please pray God's blessing on the fund Compassion is launching to aid child development center families who are hardest hit by famine and the global food crisis.

Thursday 10
Praise God that LDP students Richmond Wandera from Uganda, Michelle Tolentino from the Philippines, and Antonio Morales of the Dominican Republic were accepted to attend Moody Bible Institute!

Friday 11
Pray for one of the children in a child development center near Sao Paulo, Brazil, who was injured in an assault. Pray for physical and emotional healing.

Saturday 12
Please pray for the spiritual life of all the Asia Regional staff, that they will all have a close relationship with God and stand firm in Him.

WEEK 3
Sunday 13
Pray for the families and friends of Ugandan boy Sam Odudu, 7, who died from malaria.

Monday 14
We praise God for Center Manager Manik Mondol, in Bangladesh, who is feeling much better after a heart ailment.

Tuesday 15
Pray for the mother of Sharon Brillyd Paucar Bolo, 10, whose mother was shot in the leg during a shootout between warring Peruvian gangs.

Wednesday 16
Pray for the Center Manager at the Verchi Child Sponsorship Program in Bangladesh, Nil Armstrong, who was in a motorcycle accident.

Thursday 17
Pray for world leaders to take action against guerrilla groups who use children to fight.

Friday 18
Continue to pray for children in Tanzania who have lost their parents to AIDS.

Saturday 19
Pray for healing and comfort for a sponsored 11-year-old Peruvian boy recently diagnosed with HIV. Pray for strength for his family to help them cope.

WEEK 4
Sunday 20
Please pray for strength and peace for 9-year-old Nicaraguan Luz Maria Valle, who has terminal brain cancer.

Monday 21
Pray for God's strength and protection for Irene Heidy, a field-based facilitator in Indonesia, while she is on her three-month pregnancy leave.

Tuesday 22
Pray for Pastor Ha in Korea to recover quickly from cancer surgery so doctors can proceed with a much-needed kidney transplant.

Wednesday 23
We praise God for two new staff members who joined the Tanzania Country Office: David Mwakipesile and Shiphrah Mwagisa.

Thursday 24
Please pray for Auntara Pal, 5, and her family in Bangladesh. Her father committed suicide over extreme debt.

Friday 25
Pray for a rapid, smooth and problem-free completion of the new office being built for the Compassion staff in Burkina Faso.

Saturday 26
Pray for the family and friends of 6-year-old Sachin Das, who drowned while bathing in a pond in eastern India.

WEEK 5
Sunday 27

Pray for preparations being made for opening eight Child Survival Program centers in Indonesia during the next fiscal year.

Monday 28

Pray for God's provision for the children and families of Bonuan First Baptist Student Center, Malued Student Center, Sta. Barbara Student Center and the GFBC Student Center in the Philippines whose homes were damaged during Typhoon Halong.

Tuesday 29

Pray for Alima Gonza, 14, of Uganda, who is in a hospital intensive care unit after several epileptic seizures and contracting pneumonia.

Wednesday 30

Please pray for healing for Teddy Nakafero, 11, in Uganda, who lost her right leg to bone cancer and is recovering from surgery.

Thursday 31

We praise God that the training camp for program mentors in Bandung, Indonesia, went so well and that lives were affected for Christ!