Praying for the World
This year as a worshiping community, we’ll be praying for every country in the world. Each week in worship, we’ll pray for four countries and, by year end we’ll have prayed for all 196 of them. The goal of praying by name of all the countries are:
- To encourage us to think globally and beyond our own concerns while stretching ourselves to pray with love and respect for all people;
- To be inspired to look for news about ways God is at work in other countries;
- To pray through world events of joy, sorrow, startlingly unexpected, or boringly ordinary; and
- To raise our own awareness of the vastness of God’s world.