A DAY OF PRAYER AND ACTION

World Vision announces that October 1 is A Day of Prayer and Action.
On this day, Let's all join everyone to pray for an end to global poverty, disease, and injustice, and speak out against it as what World Vision aims.

World Vision Day of Prayer and Action Prayer Points
Pray together for your community…
: For awareness of needs within your community.
: For courage to be intentional in getting to know your neighbors.
: For opportunities to partner together in advocating for justice.
: For willingness to love your neighbors as yourself.

Praise God for…
: The opportunities that will be presented to you throughout the year that will bring change to your community.
Pray together for our leaders…
: For wisdom for our leaders as they begin to make decisions about where and how to spend money.
: That bold action will be taken to provide the necessary resources to fund interventions that alleviate suffering.
: That policies and laws would be put into place that would promote the cause of the oppressed, both locally and globally.
: For leaders to seek God’s will above their own.

Praise God for…
: The truth that His love and power reign supreme above all the leaders in this world.
Pray together for the hungry…
: For the children who die from hunger every day.
: For wisdom for government leaders who are seeking effective means to address the food crisis.
: For greater efforts to urge Congress to expand hunger, child nutrition, and agriculture development programs to eradicate child hunger worldwide.
: For God’s guidance in showing us how we can help to break the cycle of hunger.

Praise God for…
: The large amount of food aid, agricultural training, nutrition education, and food protection resources provided by World Vision and made possible by donors from around the world.
Pray together for those suffering from HIV and AIDS…
: For the more than 15 million children orphaned and made vulnerable as a result of HIV and AIDS and that those in need would be provided adequate care and support.
: For the millions of people living with HIV and AIDS who have been designated eligible to receive anti-retroviral drugs, but have not yet due to insufficient funds and delays. Pray that they might receive treatment.
: That pregnant mothers who are HIV positive will be able to access the drugs and other measures necessary to help them prevent transmission of the virus to their unborn child or infant.
: For the more than 77,000 caregivers that World Vision has trained and equipped to care for those suffering from HIV and AIDS.

Praise God for…
: The AIDS prevention and care programs that World Vision operates in more than 60 countries.
Pray together for children in slavery and bondage…
: For those children who are taken advantage of and suffer greatly ─ that they would be comforted.
: For those that would exploit or enslave others. Pray for a spiritual breakthrough so that might release their captives and work to prevent the captivity of others.
: For the advocates around the world who are standing against slavery. Pray for their protection from harm by corrupt officials and those who enslave children.
: For World Vision’s programs, that they would continue to help prevent children from falling into slavery and protect and restore those who have survive the ordeal.

Praise God for…
: The many policies put into place over the years to protect children from exploitation and bondage: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, The PROTECT Act, The Child Soldier Prevention Act.
Pray together for those suffering from malaria…
: That recent efforts focused on ending preventable deaths from malaria by 2015 will be achieved.
: That families threatened by malaria will receive insecticide-treated bed nets and other interventions that they need to protect their families from this killer disease.
: That the difficult economic period will not prevent individuals and governments from responding with the financial resources needed to protect children and help end malaria (more than $6 billion a year).
: That we might see malaria eradicated in our lifetime.

Praise God for…
: The extensive distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to malaria-infected regions around the world, through World Vision.

Let's all join and heartily participate:)

Tayo at si Ondoy

here's an email I received from World Vision. Read on...

Dear Friend, World Vision is rushing emergency supplies to children and families devastated by the catastrophic typhoon that swept through Manila and surrounding provinces in the Philippines before hitting Central Vietnam. Thousands of homes in these areas are damaged or destroyed. Your help is needed now. "The impact of this typhoon on Manila has been shocking," said Elnora Avarientos, World Vision's national director in the Philippines. "Many have lost everything, including bedding, food, education materials, and clothing. The poorest living in slums and settlements are especially badly hit." A child is evacuated from a submerged house during flooding in the outskirts of Bocaue. REUTERS/Erik de Castro World Vision is working with the Philippine Coast Guard and the government disaster response team in Vietnam to distribute aid as quickly as possible. They are dispatching relief by helicopter to some of the hard-to-reach areas. Our emergency response teams hope to reach nearly 150,000 people with food and other relief items in some of the hardest-hit areas in both countries. World Vision is distributing emergency survival kits — including food, blankets, temporary shelter, and clothing — to provide immediate aid to affected children and families. Help provide emergency supplies to victims of Typhoon Ketsana as well as those affected by the earthquake that hit Indonesia and the earthquake/tsunami that hit Samoa. Your support is crucial right now. Thank you, and God bless you for your faithful support in times of need. Rich Stearns President, World Vision U.S. P.S. Please also join me in praying for those in the Philippines as they are bracing for another storm that is scheduled to hit Thursday night or Friday morning.

Let's all find time to help people in dire needs. Lahat ng tao may magagawa. Walang maliit, walang malaki. Lahat ng tulong mahalaga. A simple prayer will do. And it's what matters most. This is not the time for us to take advantage of the situation to display our selfish interests. Wag tayo mamuhunan sa nakapanglulumong sitwasyon ng kapwa natin Pilipino. let's all hold hands to help them stand. Filipinos keep the piesces together. And as heroism unfolds, I am proud to be a Filipino.