Pray with Lebanon, March 1, 2026

Lectionary Selection: John 3: 1-17

Prayers for Lebanon

Strong and loving God, we look to you with crying eyes and heavy hearts. We continue to seek peace and justice for all of your creation. We strive to bring all your people together, to find harmony, and to love one another. Yet we are continuously met with violence and death.

We pray for all the people who have been killed at the start of this year, in Lebanon and throughout the world. We pray for those left behind to mourn their family and friends, left confused and terrified, wondering why their loved ones were taken from them in the name of empire and safety.

In a world that values money over people, we beg you to remind our hearts of your commandment to love our neighbors. Rebirth us into this way of living, as Jesus speaks of being born anew with Nicodemus in the Gospel of John. Help us seek to please you alone and to abandon our loyalties to earthly masters.

Mission Moment from Lebanon

Lebanon today is experiencing ongoing violence against its people in the name of safety and empire, carried out by Israeli forces. The south of the country has endured violence on 20 of the first 27 days of this year alone, as of January 27, 2026. This relentless reality is devastating not only to people’s physical safety but also to their mental and emotional well-being, and it severely disrupts daily life. Entire local economies have been fractured as a result of the continued violence.

Part of our work at the Forum for Development, Culture, and Dialogue (FDCD) is providing humanitarian assistance to families in need. Recently, our staff visited the southern town of Qlayaa, where we spent time with members of the local community and listened to their testimonies about life over the past 18 months. This is home for them. Home is meant to represent safety, joy, belonging, and family. Instead, home has become a battlefield that is vulnerable, isolated, and forgotten.

The gravity of the situation is easy to compartmentalize, normalize, and forget, even when living in Beirut just 90 kilometers away. Yet it is critical that we continue to provide humanitarian aid and advocate for an end to the violence against Lebanon. People deserve to live in peace. We are all God’s people, endowed with dignity and the right to live safely in the place we call home.

Margaret Kofron, Global Mission Intern

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