Foster Care Prayer Vigil

I just came across an event that is taking place this week nationwide. It is the First Annual Foster Care Prayer Vigil and I think it is absolutely amazing. "Many kids in foster care don't think they have a chance...let's change that."

If you have a prayer group that you are part of please consider devoting some time this week towards this prayer vigil. Please go to the link and see if there are any prayer meetings near you that you can be a part of. This is the First Annual event, maybe next year you maybe able to host one in your area.

Here is what Shohannah's Hope has to say about his event.

Shaohannah’s Hope is helping to promote the First Annual National Foster Care Prayer Vigil, along with FamilyLife’s Hope for Orphans and Focus on the Family. To be held the week of May 19-25th, 2008, the Prayer Vigil has been created to help believers gather together with others in their community and go before God on behalf of the half million children living in our nation’s foster care system. Children enter foster care due to circumstances beyond their control, including abuse, abandonment, neglect, and substance abuse on the part of their primary caretakers and are often shuffled from home to home. While some are eventually returned home and others blessed through adoption, unfortunately many fall through the cracks and languish for years in group homes, long-term foster homes, and shelters. During the vigil week, Christians will gather in churches and elsewhere across the nation in prayer for foster children, as well as their foster and adoptive families, their birth families, and their workers.

Please dedicate some time this week to join your fellow believers in prayer for the innocent children that are in our nation's foster system.

Our prayers can and will make a difference!!!