How to pray for Israel/Gaza
There is no escape from the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In the face of such tragedy and catastrophe, we ask you to join us and BMS World Mission partners in prayer. Download the BMS Gaza prayer guide and hear from multiple voices and contexts affected by a devastating conflict from our webinar 'Listening and learning: Gaza'.
Video Downloads
Listening and learning: Shireen Hilal
In this clip, Shireen Hilal, a Director from Bethlehem Bible College, candidly shares the intense pain she feels as a Palestinian Christian living through the war, as someone who has lost loved ones in the conflict, and as someone who has witnessed the complete rupture to reconciliation programmes that used to encourage conversation between Israel and Palestine. Listen to Shireen's moving words alongside two other clips from the webinar, bringing perspectives from Israel and Lebanon.
Listening and learning: Rani Saba
In this clip, Rani Saba, General Director of the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel talks about his multi-faceted identity as an Arab, Israeli, Palestinian, Nazarene — and above all, Christian, and what from his perspective this means for his role standing for peace in the region. Listen to this alongside two other clips from the webinar, bringing perspectives from Palestine and Lebanon.
Listening and learning: Wissam Nasrallah
In this clip, Wissam Nasrallah, BMS World Mission-supported worker and Chief Operations Officer at Thimar in Lebanon shares an "outside" perspective on the conflict — one nevertheless that has impacted him greatly growing up as a Lebanese Christian. Wissam shares how Christians must reject resentments or preconceptions they may have grown up with in favour of cross-shaped, Christ-centred compassion. Listen to Wissam's call to follow 'the narrow way', alongside two other clips from the webinar, bringing perspectives from Israel and Palestine.
Please do not distribute this video on social media, at Wissam's kind request.
Included in this bundle
Gaza prayer guide
We’ve collected prayers and reflections from our partners and friends in the West Bank, Lebanon and Israel and hope they will guide your own prayers for this tragic conflict.
