Homeless

 

At least six million people have been dispalced by the raging civil war that has overcome Syria in the past few years. They have no real home, no real income, and no end in sight. Many of them live in makeshift camps, that are not very good environments. Many have also tragically lost their lifes because of fighting, and more recently, a chemical bombing which broke the Geneva convention for the first time since its creation.

 

Helpless



 

 

These people have to stand by as other countries, like our own, make major decisions about how to help them. They have no real voice to speak up with, and if they did, would we listen?

These syrians refugees probably did not want to leave everything behind, but what choice did they have? Stay and be brutally attacked? They had no real option. Now we as a Nation, and as a World, face the decision of wether to plan a missile strike against these people, or to accept Russia's offer. Russia's offer is that Syria will give up its chemical weapons and that they would be under national control.

 

Never Hopeless

 

We have a pressing call as Christians, not to idly stand by, but to pray for these people.

 

Here are some things to be thinking and praying about this week.

 

 

-Pray that this war would end, and these people would be set free.

 

-Pray that those with power would use it responsibly.

 

-Pray that Assad would realize what he is doing to his people.

 

-Pray that people would rise up to help this county.

 

-Pray, most importantly, that the light of the gospel would shine beautifully in the face of this tragedy.

 

 

 

Sources-

 

 Rodgers, Lucy, Gerry Fletcher, Helene Sears, Christopher Ashton, Tian Yuan, and Steven Atherton. "Zaatari Refugee Camp: Rebuilding Lives in the Desert." BBC News. BBC, 09 Mar. 2013. Web. 11 Sept. 2013.