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daughters of Africa and daughters of God! We pray to the God
of heaven for justice!
People:
We speak your names!
Rev. Perryman:
We mourn and cry loud because of the vicious attacks that
claim lives and human dignity. Mourn, people! You are OUR
daughters! You are ALL our daughters! We say, SHAME on any
who have harmed you and harm you still. We pray for justice!
We demand it! Of the militant slavers who kidnapped you and
who harm your spirits! We demand it of governments who can
help!
People:
We speak your names! We call you sacred! We say you’re
blessed. We will NOT stop looking for you! We will continue
to pray for you! We will be a part of your healing as you
return, daughters! For you are OUR daughters and sisters!
You are ALL our daughters and sisters!
Rev. Perryman:
We speak your names! We call you sacred! We call you blessed
and holy! We pray to the God of love to wrap you in tender
mercies and to protect your soul in your captivity,
daughters! We pray for your safe return! We will NOT stop
praying!
People:
We will NOT stop looking for you! For you are our daughters
and sisters! You are ALL our daughters and sisters!
Rev. Perryman:
Weep, oh people! And work for justice! Cry loud and do not
cease to worry heaven and earth until our daughters are
saved! Work, oh people! And do not stop until our daughter’s
lives are redeemed from the slavers, from the kidnappers!
People:
We pray for the kidnappers that their hearts will not harden
and that they will be convicted to do what is just and
moral. We pray for justice! We pray they will be merciful!
We pray they will repent! We pray they will be stopped!
Daughters, we will not stop praying and working!
Rev. Perryman:
We speak your names! You are sacred, our daughters and
sisters! Daughters of Nigeria and the entire world! We will
pray for justice! We will live for justice! We will work for
it! For you are OUR daughters! You are ALL our daughters!
ALL:
We speak your names! We call you sacred! We call you
precious! You are OUR daughters! You are ALL our daughters!
Amen! Ase! And it is so!
Recited at Center of Hope Community Baptist Church, May 11,
2014 for the safe return of our 300 Nigerian daughters
violently abducted and removed from their families and
community.
©Valerie Bridgeman Adapted by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Conference
Contact Rev. Donald Perryman, D.Min, at
drdlperryman@centerofhopebaptist.org
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