Today marks the third day of the week-long Global Ecumenical Call to Prayer for COVID and we remember the world’s leaders, especially those leading advanced-economic countries whose political and financial decisions impact conditions in low-income countries.The Covid-19 pandemic has created the sharpest global economic decline since the Great Depression and will inevitably have a devastating effect on low-income countries if we’re not careful and look out for the least of these that live just beyond our borders.
Today’s Scripture Reading comes from Luke 7:1-10 (New Revised Standard Version) “After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. When they came to Jesus, they appealed to him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy of having you do this for him, for he loves our people, and it is he who built our synagogue for us.”
And Jesus went with them, but when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him,
“Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; therefore I did not presume to come to you. But only speak the word, and let my servant be healed.
For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and the slave does it.”
When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.” When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.“
A prayer of Intercession and a reflection are available here along with some key messaging and facts from World Vision about how the covid-19 pandemic has affected our world to date.
The week-long Global Ecumenical Call to Prayer for COVID has been organised by a group made up of the World Council of Churches, World Vision International, The World Evangelical Alliance and the Mennonite World Conference – MWC CMM, and the purpose of the venture is to raise awareness of the implications of the pandemic for communities everywhere and to encourage and resource prayers from Christians of all faith traditions.
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