Write His Answer

When I think of “writing His answer,” I immediately think of the needs of children. You may have heard me say, “No child should go to bed hungry . . . or be abused or forced to witness things a child should never have to see.”

I regularly receive email from Kimberly Smith of Make Way Partners (www.makewaypartners.org), “a Christian mission agency committed to prevent and combat human trafficking and all forms of modern-day slavery.” A staggering quote from her website says: “Sex slavery – in our world today, there are more women and children forced into sex slavery than the entire female population of Atlanta, Houston, LA, and NYC combined.” I highly recommend Kimberly’s book, Passport Through Darkness, and want to encourage you to subscribe to her newsletter. And I urge you to pray for the children in their Hope for Children Orphanage in the Sudan who are in grave danger. This morning the director called to say that “at this very moment a large team of raiders were running through our orphanage property unleashing heavy machinegun fire. At least two locals are dead, maybe more. Our guards were quick thinking and were able to round up all of our children and close them into their dormitory, where all are safe for the moment. It seems tension has continued to rise over these months and one group wrestled a herd of cattle from another. The raiders are killing each other, and  anyone who gets in their way. Child trafficking often gets included in these raids so our children are very vulnerable tonight.”

Please pray for these children and for the estimated one million orphans in Sudan. “These precious children,” Make Way Partners says, “are primarily left unprotected to survive by themselves in the African bush. Many find trees to sleep in at night to avoid hyena attack.” And yes, you do hear me saying, “Children should not have to sleep in trees!”

And then I think of children and teens here in America. Did you now that suicide is the third leading cause of death among America’s teenagers? The granddaughter of Fran Pasch, one of GPCWC’s conferees, has written a powerful song, “Take My Hand,” about teen suicide. Fran writes: “I have a special favor to ask you. Our granddaughter April needs people to subscribe to her YouTube account. She will be going to LA within the next month for a big meeting about her music and some good opportunities to write. If you have a YouTube account go on the internet and type in www.YouTube.com/AprilLockhartmusic and press the yellow button to subscribe. She needs to get 1000 people to dothis. If you don’t have a YouTube account you can sign up. There is no charge. You will hear her singing a song when you go on but she did not write this one. After you subscribe, you can click on Take My Hand, the song she wrote about teen suicide. Please ask others to do this too.”

Father, please stir our hearts to pray for children and teens here at home and around the world. Show us how You can use us to make a dfference.