Various church congregations gathered last Tuesday at Orlando Children’s Home to pray for the home and reflect.
The prayer meeting happens annually and it is a chance for the church congregations to pray for the home and the state of the nation.
Director of the home, Miriam Mazibuko, said that prayer is needed in our society with all the recent happenings.
“As a God-fearing nation, are we following God’s guidance and the laws set up by him? Or are we savaged by the winds of greed, corruption and other evil and want to be populists and not a God fearing nation,” said Mazibuko.
She said consider a little girl who herself still needs to go through the painful teenage years, still needs to get a profession of her choice, and to study hard to realise her dreams. Suddenly, she is a mother. A baby is crying and needs her attention.
“Did we stop to say ‘My baby, you are not yet ready to bear a child’,” said Mazibuko.
She said it is time that the nation reflects and thinks about all that is happening in our society.
“When we grew up we were not shy to go to assembly at the beginning of the school day to pray and invite God to be in our midst and help shape the moral fibre of our children before we sat for the lessons of the day,” she said.
She explained that through her work she has accounted problems such as families falling apart through deaths, divorce and parenthood; single parenthood and the decline of extended families which used to be a strong support in the African society.
President of Dorcus Women in Action, Nokwanda Qomoyi, said that reading about children killing other children is very much alarming.
“We have to come together and pray for our nation we can’t just sit and watch while our nation falls to the ground,” she said.
