Prayers for Racial Justice (Digital Version)
Students and faculty are confronted daily with the realities of racial injustice. Prayer is an active response that aligns us with God’s heart and stirs the Holy Spirit’s intervention. This resource provides guides for personal and group prayer meetings on themes related to racial justice.
How do we pray against an injustice that is so deeply woven into the fabric of our country? On campus, students and faculty are confronted daily with the realities of racial injustice. Prayer is an active response that aligns us with God’s heart and stirs the Holy Spirit’s intervention. Prayer shifts us from helplessness to hope-filled action. It sustains us on the lifelong journey of pursuing justice.
This resource provides practical guides for personal and group prayer meetings.
What’s in the Prayer Guide?
- Introduction – framing for praying on this topic and about the guide
- Daily Prayer
- Confession & Repentance
- Forgiveness & Reconciliation
- Lament
- Revival & Justice
- Prayers of the Church
Ways to Use the Guide:
- Order a physical copy to keep in your chapter prayer room
- Use during daily or weekly campus prayer meetings
- Conferences and events
- Spiritual development for your leadership team for a quarter or semester
- Individually to grow in prayer
- Buy it for ministry partners as a gift
- Share with church leaders who want practical resources to disciple their congregations around this topic
The full color, print version of this guide is available online at Amazon.
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About the authors
Caroline Lancaster serves as InterVarsity’s Associate Director for Multiethnic Initiatives and is on South Asian InterVarsity's national leadership team. She is a second-generation Indian American that has lived in California, Singapore, Boston, and the Chicago 'burbs. She is a creative at heart and loves equipping students, faculty, and staff to pursue justice in their contexts. Caroline is a certified Cultural Intelligence Trainer, participated in Rev. Dr. Brenda-Salter McNeil’s Reconciliation Leaders Cohort, and is currently pursuing an MDiv at Fuller Theological Seminary. Find Caroline on instagram @carolinesusie!