Pray for God to grant strength, patience, understanding, and wisdom to the men in our faith family to lead their families well. Pray for the fathers in our church to take seriously their responsibility to raise up their children in the knowledge of God. Pray for all of us to join these fathers in helping them make disciples of their children. Pray for the fatherless today to find comfort in God. Pray for fathers who have lost children to know the peace only God can provide. Praise God for being our good, gracious, and loving Heavenly Father.

This week we are praying for Lifeline Children’s Services (lifelinechild.org), a Christ-centered holistic orphan care ministry in Birmingham, Alabama. Lifeline serves families by supporting them in adoption, foster care, education and international orphan care. They partner with Brook Hills to train for foster care, support foster care and adoptive families, and equip us for trauma care. We are also praying for 16th Street Baptist Church and Pastor Arthur Price.

DAY 1: Pray for Lifeline’s pregnancy counseling ministry. Pray for expectant mothers to find Lifeline and feel led to reach out to them. Pray these women would see the hope in adoption and choose life. Pray for the pregnancy counselors as they walk with these families. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide their conversations and ultimately point them towards Jesus. Pray for local churches to be ready to disciple and mentor women in unexpected pregnancies.

DAY 2: Pray for Lifeline’s foster care and family restoration ministry. Ask the Lord to bring families who are mission-minded and have hearts ready to share the gospel with kids entering their homes. Pray for Lifeline’s ongoing relationship with DHR to continue to grow and deepen. Pray for the children in foster care. Pray they find healing, for there to be a quick reunification process when safe, and for families to feel supported. Pray for more foster families willing to take older children, teens, sibling groups, and medical special needs.

DAY 3: Pray for Lifeline’s (un)adopted ministry. Pray for the estimated 140 million children around the world living in orphanages and the 38,493 teens aging out of those facilities every day. Pray for the (un)adopted staff as they seek to train orphanage workers, equip local churches, and love and care for these children well.

DAY 4: Pray for Lifeline’s domestic adoption program. Pray for birthparents to see Jesus in the families they choose for their little ones. Pray for adoptive families to know how to disciple and care for their child and for their child’s birth family. Pray for families who are open to children with special needs. Also, pray for endurance for those who have been waiting a long time for a chance at adoption.

DAY 5: Pray for Lifeline’s international adoption program working in 19 countries around the world. Pray for encouragement and strength for the social workers who work diligently to make international adoptions possible. Ask the Lord to bring Lifeline families who are mission-minded and gospel-centered and to provide the financial provisions needed for those families. Pray for families called to pursue older children, sibling groups, and children with special needs.

DAY 6: Pray for Lifeline’s staff. Pray for each staff member to be encouraged in the work of the Lord through the ministry. Pray for open staff positions across the country to be filled, and for wisdom for those involved in the interviews. Pray for the leadership of Lifeline (staff and boards) to make God-honoring decisions in continuing to steer the ministry of Lifeline and its growth.

Pray for our team members who are working and living in places that are hard to reach.

DAY 1: Pray for God’s kindness and mercy to be shown through team members toward those among the unreached who face extreme physical suffering.

DAY 2: Pray for God to work in the lives of those who persecute the church, either converting them or otherwise thwarting their efforts to stop the spread of the gospel.

DAY 3: Pray for God to open the minds and hearts of the unreached to the light of the gospel as our team members share the Good News.

DAY 4: Pray for healthy churches and faithful pastors to be raised up in the areas where we have team members.

DAY 5: Pray for God to sustain the faith of our team members as well as indigenous believers through trials, persecution, and pressure.

DAY 6: Pray for more laborers to be sent into the harvest.