Prayer Pointers

• Thanks for improving relations in South Africa. But concern that this is not always reflected in UCCSA’s synod where churches are still either black or coloured.
• Botswana is now one of the strongest countries in Africa but as NGO’s pull out to work in other countries it must continue to progress. Pray that new law on domestic violence will be passed this month.
• Pray that women in the church will find the courage to support those women who stand for office and not vote for men because of their cultural tradition.
  
• Give thanks for the home for blind and partially sighted children run by UCCSA and for primary school where they attend and for their inclusion in main stream education.
  
• Zimbabwe. Give thanks for the faith and hope of the people we met who did not complain but told us frankly of their need for water, food and power.
  
• Give thanks for the welcome and generosity.
  
• Give thanks for the preschool for orphans run by the church in Bulawayo. Older girls leave their siblings there while they go to school.
  
• Remember the high school at Inyati the first school in Africa. Now with 500 pupils and such a sad library. At the start of term the parents had to donate food and fuel so the school could open.
  
• One minister we met said that when a home never has visitors the neighbours think there is something odd there … but we had visited Zimbabwe.
• Pray for on-going work for peace in Mozambique and the work of the Mozambique Christian Council Council of Churches turning weapons into tools
• Pray for the women's conference and for Felicity as she preaches at their Sunday service.