World Prayers for Nov. 29 – Dec. 5: Liberia and Sierra Leone

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A boy reads his Bible at an Assemblies of God service in Saclepea, Liberia. Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World.

Bread for the World believes prayer is central to the work of ending hunger by 2030. Hunger happens in every corner of the world. In this blog series, we will provide a prayer for a different group of countries each week and their efforts to end hunger.

This prayer series will follow the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, a list compiled by the World Council of Churches that enables Christians around the world to journey in prayer through every region of the world, affirming our solidarity with Christians all over the world, brothers and sisters living in diverse situations, experiencing their challenges and sharing their gifts.

We will especially be lifting up in prayer the challenges related to hunger and poverty that the people of each week’s countries face. In prayer, God’s story and our own story connect—and we and the world are transformed. In a prayer common to all of us—the Lord’s Prayer/the Our Father—we pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” This line from this prayer can also be a prayer for the end of hunger.

We invite you to join Bread in our prayers for the world’s countries to end hunger. And we encourage you to share with us your prayers for the featured countries of the week or for the end of hunger in general.

For the week of Nov. 29 – Dec. 5: Liberia and Sierra Leone

A Child’s Prayer

God, what kind of world is this
that the adult people are going to leave for us children?
There is fighting everywhere
and they tell us we live in a time of peace.
You are the only one who can help us.
Lord, give us a new world in which we can be happy,
in which we can have friends
and work together for a good future.
A world in which there will not be any cruel people
who seek to destroy us and our world in so many ways.
(Liberia. Another Day, comp. John Carden, SPCK, Triangle © SPCK, London. UK)

Percentage of the population of these countries living below the national poverty line (2014 figures):

Liberia: Not available
Sierra Leone: 52.9

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators as found in the 2015 Hunger Report.

Prayer is a central part of Bread for the World’s work. Learn more about how you can get involved with prayer at Bread.

A boy reads his Bible at an Assemblies of God service in Saclepea, Liberia. Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World.

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