Love@Work - 100 years of ICF

Covid-19 - Praying for the World at Work

In these unprecedented circumstances, which have re-defined our experience of work, we have suspended our usual prayer updates. Instead we will seek to offer some weekly prayer reflections around the world of work, which you might include alongside your prayers for everyone affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

In every case, we encourage you to pray for all those in key occupations, those that are obvious and those that are not, as they seek to enable our communities to stay as safe and well as possible.

This week, we would particularly encourage you to pray for those involved in maintaining food production and availability - farmers to delivery drivers, volunteer distributors and everyone in between. Pray that they will be kept safe, might have the required ingenuity to adapt to emerging challenges, and that we will all learn to be grateful for what we have rather than concerned about what is not available to us. Jesus encourages us to pray 'Give us this day our daily bread' - this week we give thanks for those who make that provision available to us.

Our scheduled prayer focus this week is for those involved in the preservation, research and curating of history. While praying for all whose working lives have been disrupted in recent days, you are invited to particularly pray for those in this sector who are affected by current realities.