With great concern for those in our affiliates along the Gulf Coast, their loved ones, their friends and neighbors, and especially those who have no one to care for them - all of them brothers and sisters of ours in the Body of Christ -, we pray:

Lord, you who calmed the storm at sea,
quiet the fears,
ease the pain,
tend the grief,
and light the darkness
of your children in
Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

In stunned silence, be their voice
In rages against the night, be their balm, In bewilderment, be their
hope.

Lead rescuers to the lost,
shelter the waiting.

Sustain those who work to
make life's necessities spring
forth in this desert of gloom,
Blanket the weary with your tender touch.

Shake us from our comforts to
share our siblings sorrow and
pray them into new life.

We ask this in the name of Jesus who suffered.
Amen.

- Kris Ward
National Vice President