Prayer Requests

We are in the middle of Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child and there are many areas where prayer is needed:

1. Pray for the hurting children and their families whose lives are impacted through OCC, especially that many hearts will be opened to God's love and the Good News of Jesus Christ.
2. Most of the children receiving shoe boxes live in desperate circumstances, suffering from poverty, sickness, war, or natural disaster. Pray that God will meet their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
3. Pray for the OCC ministry partners in countries around the world, especially that the shoe boxes will be effective evangelism tools. Pray also for their follow-up with the discipleship programs.
4. Pray for individuals, families, churches, and groups who will be filling shoe boxes, especially for the children. Pray that they will see that it truly is more blessed to give than to receive.
5. Pray for everyone involved in collecting, processing, transporting, and delivering shoe box gifts, including tens of thousands of volunteers. Pray especially for the timely delivery of the gifts.
6. Pray for Samaritan's Purse staff and volunteers in the US, Canada,, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Australia, as they deal with the logistical challenges of OCC.

"Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving" Col. 4:2