2025 in Prayer - Calendar
Find below the focus and prayer requests for the month. Each month, you can learn more about GROW and have a focused way of praying for the ministry. Subscribe and donate to help rescue more children.
Septemner 2025
Focus: Mercy
Biblical mercy is compassion and forgiveness shown to those who deserve punishment.
The cycle of “hurt people hurt people” can be broken when we press into God’s mercy. As humans we tend to attach mercy and forgiveness with emotions. But forgiveness and mercy are not emotions, they are choices of our will. When Jesus was unjustly persecuted on the cross, He modeled for us mercy and forgiveness. He cried out to the Father to forgive those who were crucifying Him and causing Him so much pain (Luke 23:34). As Christians, God calls us to love mercy. Micah 6:8 “…What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” He wants us to be set free from a past of pain, embrace mercy and to walk in His presence with fullness of joy. (Psalm 16:11)
God’s first step of mercy for GROW…
In a quiet corner of Southeast Asia, where mountains stretch into misty skies and villages are tucked into the hillsides, a movement of mercy is changing lives. It’s here that Grace Refuge Outreach Worldwide—known simply as GROW—is planting seeds of hope among children who have known far too much pain, fear, and abandonment. At the heart of GROW is Faa, a courageous woman whose life story reflects the mercy of God in powerful, personal ways. Born into the Akha hill tribe, Faa experienced the deep wounds of trauma and poverty firsthand.
But…
Faa was introduced to the “God who is rich in mercy because of the great love with which He loved us” (Ephesians 2:4) When Faa realized God’s love and mercy was poured out for her on the cross, allowing for the forgiveness of her sins, she was freed from her past. (I Peter 1:3) Her past no longer defined her. God’s redemptive love and forgiveness changed everything. She has a new vision, a vision that she carries out through her work at GROW. Here, Faa introduces exploited and hurting children to the God of all mercy, a God who deeply loves them. A God who offers freedom from a painful past. A God who desires each child to walk in His presence with the fullness of joy (Psalm 16:11)
Prayer: That the children and staff at GROW will all come to know God’s mercy. And that they will teach others about God’s love and mercy.
