“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need.” Romans 12:12

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your Name

Your kingdom come, Your will be done

We pray for God’s kingdom to break in for the 11.5 million people who have fled their homes across Iraq and Syria

Around half of those are children Over 30,000 civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria in 2014

Islamic State is targeting Christians and minorities. In Mosul alone, 45 churches have been destroyed or converted

On earth as in heaven

Give us today our daily bread

“We Muslims have got Allah in heaven, and you Christians on Earth”

19,000 families in Iraq and Syria are being supported each month

And forgive us our sins

“We need every Christian in the world to pray… Pray that Syria will find Jesus.” Syrian Christian, Damascus

As we forgive those who sin against us

Pray for persecutors Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the self proclaimed leader of IS

Bashar al-Assad President of Syria Haider al-Abadi Prime Minister of Iraq Tammam Salam Prime Minister of Lebanon Western Leaders Can these men become agents of peace and reconciliation?

Lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen

A prayer of Pastor Douglas, minister working with Christian refugees in Iraq: “Without Your grace we cannot survive, Lord God. Even if there is enough food and there are good medicines. Come with Your grace into our lives.

Thanks to Your grace, we can see that You are really here, that Your strength is still present here, and that the Holy Spirit is working in our lives. We are weak, but belong to You, to You alone. We will follow You for all time. Amen.”

Pray for hope and a future for fleeing families in Iraq Dear Lord, save Iraq’s persecuted children and give them hope to build a better future for themselves.

For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

“The church is like a tent that cares for those beneath her... a family for those who feel strangers in their own country.” Pastor Boutros, Tartus, Syria

“Every person has the right to worship the God of their heart” Brother Andrew

“If one part suffers, every part suffers with it” 1 Corinthians 12:26