Every day heartbreaking reports from Gaza and Palestine inundate us. We feel grief, we feel anger, but often have limited means of responding. As UCC clergy, we have found ourselves longing for ways to help us pray into the news of these days. To address this longing, the Liturgical Resource Team of UCC PIN has developed a brief, weekly prayer - “Pause for Palestine” - that connects the realities of this time, like Micah Bucey's prayer here, prompted by the the recent bombing of the Al-Tabin school as people there were beginning to pray. 

UCC PIN recently launched this initiative and will be releasing these weekly prayers, written by different members of our Liturgical Resource Team, every Thursday on the UCC Palestine Israel Network Facebook and Instagram pages. Our hope is that others will find these prayers helpful and incorporate them into worship and use them for personal meditation. 

This is a section of the UCCPIN August 2024 E-Newsletter. To read the entire newsletter, follow this link.