The impacts of Climate Change are hitting the world's poor first and worst and threatening to push 250 million sub-Saharan Africans into poverty by 2010. December's Copenhagen Summit is a chance for world leaders to secure a fair global deal on climate change.

Please continue to pray for our leaders and ourselves in the run up to the Summit.

Father, we thank you when we see the hearts of the powerful melting before the demands of justice. We pray for those who stand up for the poor and the exploited. Give them wisdom and insight, grace and patience, courage and endurance so that justice and peace may reign throughout your world. Amen

Lord our Creator, help us reflect your nature by living creatively and generously instead of destructively and selfishly. Inspire us to be watchful and thoughtful in using the resources you have given us, remembering that one day we must give an account of our stewardship. Amen.

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