Father, hear our prayers for all your children Carve their needs upon our hearts,that with generosity and love we may bring your light and hope into their lives.Amen

Srey, 18, Cambodia.*Srey's name has been changed to protect her

identity.© 2013 Sophiak Kong / World Vision

We pray for Srey*,and for those who are vulnerable,exploited, and trapped in poverty,for those whose innocence is stolenand their dignity abused.

Carve their needs on our hearts

Response:May we bring light and hopeinto their lives

Carve their needs on our hearts

Response:May we bring light and hope into their lives

Father,we pray for those whose true worth in your eyes hasbeen cheapened by others into a commodity for sale. We give thanks for those who reach out to restore dignity, offer friendship, support and a new life.

World Vision staff member Michael with four orphaned children he helped unite with relatives in South Sudan: Abuk, 11, Mam, 9, Nyadeng, 6, and Nyuol, 3.© 2015 Jon Warren / World Vision

We pray for Abishek and all those who have lost family, home, and livelihood through the earthquake in Nepal.

Carve their needs on our hearts

Response:May we bring light and hopeinto their lives

Abishek, 6, Nepal.© 2015 Annila Harris / World Vision

We give thanks for the provision of safe shelter and emergency relief, especially to those in the most remote areas,for the work of rebuilding lives and restoring communities.

Carve their needs on our hearts

Response:May we bring light and hope into their livesWorld Vision Relief Distribution camp in Nepal.

© 2015 Annila Harris / World Vision

Harriet, 10, Zambia.© 2014 Collins Kaumba / World Vision

We pray for Harriet from Zambia, and all those like her, whose

health and life itself are at serious risk from contaminated, dirty

water.Carve their needs on our hearts

Response:May we bring light and hope into their lives

Harriet, 10, Zambia.© 2014 Collins Kaumba / World Vision

For communities around the world, and especially children like Harriet, may water be transformed from a carrier of sickness and death into a source of health and life.

Carve their needs onour hearts

Response:May we bring light and hopeinto their lives

Bishop Paul comes from Bradford and trained at Queen’s Birmingham. Ordained in 1979, Paul served as curate in Whitley Bay, before moving to London as a university chaplain. After twenty-five years in pastoral ministry, Paul moved to the Archbishop’s Council in London as the Church of England’s National Mission and Evangelism Advisor involved in emerging church, Back to Church Sunday and the Weddings Project. In 2010 Paul became Bishop of Hertford where he ministered for 4 years before becoming Bishop of Liverpool in November 2014.

Prayers written byBishop of Liverpool,Paul Bayes.