A Month of Prayer for Cuba: Why We're Lifting Our Voices in June
The government is watching church leaders. Young Christians have been detained for speaking out. Pastors are exhausted — running on empty in the middle of fuel shortages and summer blackouts that stretch for hours. Hospitals are without medicine. Families are going without food.
And in the middle of all of it, the church in Cuba is still meeting. Still worshiping. Still believing.
Day 22 of the calendar reads: Pray for boldness in the Methodist Church in Cuba.
That's not a leadership development goal for our Cuban brothers and sisters. That's survival. They need courage just to be the church.
A Calendar to Pray Through Together
Pastor Vicki didn't want us to just pray in general. General prayer is fine — God hears it. But specific prayer keeps us from forgetting that real people are on the other end of our words.
One request per day for the entire month of June. Some of those prayers will feel heavy. Praying for families separated, children without medicine, people arrested for speaking their faith out loud — that's not comfortable. Let it be uncomfortable. Prayer changes the person praying, not just the situation being prayed over.
This prayer list has been created in for our Spanish-language brothers and sisters as well. Same prayers. Same month. Same family. One church praying the same prayers in two languages.
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Pick up a copy at the welcome desk, or download it below.
All you have to do is pray one prayer each day. You don't have to understand the politics. You don't have to know all the history. You just have to show up for our brothers and sisters the way you'd want someone to show up for you.
Day 30 says it plainly: Pray that we at New Hope can support our Cuban churches the way God has called us to do so.
Let's do exactly that. Starting June 1.
Download the June Prayer Calendar →(click here)
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