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Current Prayer Update
Focus Our Prayer
About 80% of the street children in Brazil are social orphans. This percentage is the same for the children at Hope. They may have some family, but due to extreme situations, abuse or neglect, they cannot remain with their family. One Saturday a month from 1 to 4 p.m., family members can come visit...a mom who is a prostitute...a father who is on drugs... an uncle or aunt too poor to take in an extra child...a grown sibling or grandparent... This Saturday is a family visitation day. The kids anticipate and hope for a visit. Usually only a few relatives show up. Not a few relatives per child, but a few relatives total. It can be a wonderful opportunity to maintain or help heal a relationship, but in most cases it is a missed opportunity. It can be very hard emotionally on a child who waits and prays for a visit, hoping to see family, and then the disappointment of no one coming. Do I matter, they must ask themselves, Why am I not lovable?
Praise
for those family members who do come to visit their children
for the connections formed and healing that is starting
for Hopes outreach ministries to family members
for a God who loves each child and family member. He is a God of reconciliation.
Prayer Requests
that family members will take the opportunity to go visit a child
for God to prepare the child and the family members for their time together
for the children who are not visited - that they will forgive their family, reach to God and find their value in Him
