Prayer
[Source: See full report from Anglican Communion News Service]
My prayer for this country (Angola) and for the churches here is this:
May the Christians of this land hear day by day the word of God that is the word of hope.
May they hear the word of the God ‘I am what I choose to be’, I do what I have decided to do. The word of the God who has said ‘I have decided to be with you and nothing will change that’.
And because of that may the Christians of this country be courageous day by day. May they have the courage to do what is in front of them, even if it seems small, it will be great in God’s eyes. And as Christians grow in that confidence, that honesty and that courage, they will build a community and a nation that is confident and honest, a nation which will give glory to God.
May God give us all in this country and across the world, that courage and that faith so that we may work together to do away with the violence and the terror the disease and poverty that make us less than human.