Week Commencing 2 January
Jeevan Sahara Kendra (JSK), HIV/AIDS outreach project, Thane, India
- Please pray for our staff as they meet families affected by HIV every day. Ask God to give sensitivity and clarity to our staff to help the families make positive choices and address long-standing needs. Pray for protection as our staff travel extensively in often chaotic traffic.
- Ask God to equip local churches to minister to people with HIV. Pray for a deep move of the Spirit to see more churches open their doors to people with HIV – and for the church families to be generous and patient in caring for families affected by HIV.
- Thank God for an encouraging HIV awareness and testing camp that JSK conducted with two local churches in September. Over 80 people received voluntary and confidential HIV testing. We were happy that most tested HIV negative and so we were able to give them counselling on making significant changes in their lives. The five who were found to be HIV positive were counselled and linked up with JSK and the local churches for further care.
- Ask God for help in the major transformation as JSK shifts to the building currently housing the Lok Hospital. Pray for God’s enabling to bring in key staff necessary to run an (initially) 10 bedded in-patient care facility, as well as a planned ART clinic and TB clinic in addition to the on-going testing and counselling and general OPD work.
- Pray for the many widows who have lost their husbands to HIV. These women are often HIV positive themselves and are usually unwelcome in their late husbands’ families. Ask God to help JSK find creative ways to link up these widow-headed families with local churches.
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