Pray with us
How you can pray with us
Prayer is central to all that we do. We would love you to be involved in the prayer life of The Leprosy Mission. Each year we produce the ASK Prayer Diary, which provides a global overview of The Leprosy Mission’s work. You can view the ASK Prayer Diary week by week below, download a PDF of the full year, or request a printed booklet.
You can also follow our prayer life through the PrayerMate app, where we provide daily prayer requests for the work to defeat leprosy delivered direct to your phone. Get involved with PrayerMate here.
Monday
Give thanks and praise for the successful completion of the first phase of the PEPCOM project at the end of 2023. The NLR Indonesia team has worked effectively with local health teams and communities to implement a programme of preventative antibiotics which will reduce leprosy transmission.
Tuesday
Pray for ongoing success and progress as the PEPCOM project is extended for a further five years (thanks to funding from New Zealand) to further build on intensive contact tracing and community engagement. The aim is that there will be no children with leprosy by 2035.
Wednesday
Pray for the Yayasan NLR Indonesia staff team, Asken, Valen, Dr Teki, Dr Asti, Dr Udeng, Yasmin, Lia, Pajri, Robi, Paulan and Toman as they establish relationships with the district governments. Pray that the governments will be motivated to collaborate with the team to establish sustainable leprosy control programmes.
Thursday
Pray that village leaders and key influential people will be open to working with our project staff to change the stigma and discriminatory beliefs against people affected by leprosy in their villages.
Friday
Pray that public and private medical staff will be willing to learn and implement what they have learnt from our teams to increase the quality of leprosy diagnosis and treatment in the urban areas of Indonesia.
Saturday/Sunday
Give thanks for our partnership with our ILEP partner, NLR. Their work is instrumental to defeating leprosy in Indonesia. We pray a blessing on their teams in Indonesia and across the world.
About Indonesia
Indonesia ranks third in the world for the number of leprosy cases. The Leprosy Mission does not have staff in Indonesia, but works through our partner, Yayasan NLR Indonesia, on three projects on the island of Java. This happens thanks to funds from TLM offices in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
The PEPCOM (Post Exposure Prophylaxis in Community) project (funded by New Zealand) supports the work of the local health facilities in Indramayu, by intensifying case finding, improving leprosy control, providing rifampicin (a preventive antibiotic) to household and social contacts of someone newly diagnosed with leprosy, and strengthening community involvement and empowerment.