Ethiopia

Please pray again for communities struggling with food poverty, and for our Harvest Appeal. Please pray for: - families hungry due to climate-related challenges impacting harvests, especially unpredictable rains causing floods, drought, landslides and cyclones, and those coping with extreme temperatures - families hungry because they can’t cope with cost of living increases - families hungry due to conflict and displacement - more work from international, national and local authorities to improve food security.

From 25th to 31st August we pray for our Harvest Appeal, helping to prevent hunger for children we support worldwide. Please pray for: - a positive response to the appeal - wisdom for our partners in countries affected by drivers of food poverty, especially drought in our African projects, conflict and economic instability - families struggling to provide even one meal a day - wisdom in developing work to protect against food insecurity, as well as resources to feed children where necessary.

Wollo Amhara in Ethiopia: Wallo is a province in north-eastern Ethiopia with a desire for independence. There are around 6.3 million Wollo people who are mostly traditional subsistence farmers. Most Amhara people are Christians but Wollo people practise Islam and traditional religion. Pray for improved farming methods, and for Amharic-speaking Christians to reach out to the Wollo people.

Chris and Suzy Wilson are working in reconciliation and peacebuilding with Christian leaders in Ethiopia. Pray for God to bless their efforts to improve their Amharic and help them not just to get to grips with the language’s many consonant sounds and add to their vocabulary, but also for God to bring the right words and turns of phrase to mind when they speak to people.

Pray for a lasting peace agreement and for food and medicine to reach those who urgently need it,” write Chris and Suzy Wilson, CMS mission partners working for forgiveness, reconciliation and peacebuilding in Ethiopia, where the situation continues to be tense. Pray for Christians in the country to be agents of peace and reconciliation as the different parties negotiate and find a way to live together in harmony.