Prayer Request # 1

• For my journey back to Lebanon, as I seek to follow my calling – that, God willing, I might find meaningful work, a means to live – to build lasting friendships there and to deepen connections with congregations back home

• For the stones that entomb us – God willing, may we find liberation from ill health, and be guided into just livelihoods, wholesome families, and right spirits within

• For Palestine/Israel – that extremism on all sides be vanquished by justice; that neither be cut off from the world’s care; that our governments reconsider whether abandoning the Palestinian people’s health and education needs is the path to peace and security; that Hamas moderate its rejection of Israel’s existence – God willing, may deep peace flourish

• For the peacemakers – in Lebanon, the World Student Christian Federation, the Middle East Council of Churches, the Ajeal Palestinian youth centre; in Israel, for B’tselem, Peace Now, and Rabbis for Human Rights; in Palestine, for the International Solidarity Movement, the World Council of Churches accompaniment program, and Sabeel Centre for Liberation Theology. For Christian Peacemaker Teams continuing witness in Iraq and Palestine/Israel

• For those dispossessed of their land and liberty, everywhere in the world – for Indigenous peoples in Canada and worldwide; for political prisoners, for those in U.S. global ‘shadow’ prisons, for those under humiliating occupations – God willing, may they find the wholeness and dignity taken from them