FAITH BASED OPORTUNITIES
Ways To Get Involved
1. Promote HIV AIDS awareness through education and testing.
2. Consider partnering with local HIV/AIDS organizations within your community.
3. Participate in the black church week of prayer for the Healing of AIDS.
4. Incorporate sermons on HIV AIDS in your sermons and bible study time.
5. Advocate for the rights of people with HIV and demonstrate tolerance.
6. Invite people who are positive to attend services at your church.
7. Nurture people living with HIV/AIDS by providing opportunities for assistance.
8. Pray for those in your community who are affected or infected by HIV/AIDS.
9. Support people living with HIV through spiritual support and guidance.
10. Develop care Teams-ministry designed to help those within your community who are living with HIV/AIDS.
Breaking The Barrier of Silence
What others are saying:
"If you are going to join this battle against HIV/AIDS, it has to start in the heart – you have to care. One day you are going to be judged by how you treated other people. You may not be able to change the world, but you can change the world for somebody." Pastor Rick Warren
We are all interconnected in the most undeniable way and we must, as the Bible says, "be our brother’s keeper."… when one of us suffers, we all suffer…. And when one stumbles, we all crash…. We should go back to loving one another and demanding that more be spent to stop this disease!... If we don’t fight now, if we don’t take a stand now, if we don’t come up with a plan now, there will be no one left to not only fight, but to live. Bishop T.D. Jakes
God of us all,
We pray for the unity of the Black Church, that we may find a unified way to fight this disease of HIV/AIDS. Lead the Church out of passivity and old-fashioned attitudes. Replace ignorance with education. Teach the young self-worth and strength, the strength of self-discipline. Teach the old new ways of caring and compassion.
We pray for the commitment of time and money that will provide crisis intervention, professional guidance, community seminars and outreach programs to provide alternatives to the harmful enticements of the streets.
Grant us, together, acknowledgment of what is and what is not, as well as a vision of what can be. In the name of Jesus the Christ. AMEN.
This prayer is taken from We Will Break the Silence! Liturgical Resources for the Healing of AIDS © 2007 The Balm In Gilead™
