For years, Christians have divided themselves over the most effective means of transforming our world: verbal proclamation of the gospel – witnessing – or social action. In truth, the two cannot be separated. Without both, there is simply no Good News. And one thing ties them both together: prayer to a God of temporal justice and eternal salvation.
via Prayer Is Social Action – Articles – God’s Word – Urbana.org.
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Tearfund is calling for a Global Poverty Prayer Week, 23 February to 1 March 2009
More information is available here.
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From this month’s Lausanne World Pulse: Zimbabwe Today a Nation in Need of Prayer.
Untold Hardship. Here is a quote from the article.
This is the reality of life in Zimbabwe today for the majority of the people who do not have access to foreign currency. Their own currency has become worthless so much so that a church that received a check in their collection for “six quadrillion dollars” (that is, six with fifteen zeroes!) did not even bother to deposit it in the bank.
An apple costs fifteen million dollars; a single loaf of bread costs two months’ salary for workers at an informal chrome mine outside of Harare. (At this mine, they work twelve hours a day, with no safety precautions, tunneling one hundred yards into the earth, lighting the way with candles. They then drill holes into the sides, push in dynamite, ignite it, and run for their lives. Astonishingly, their monthly salary of six million dollars buys half a loaf of bread!)
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