Cameroon crisis

On Saturday 24 October 2020, unidentified gunmen killed eight school children in their classrooms with guns and machetes while twelve others were injured at the Mother Francisca International Academy, Fiango Quarters, Kumba, Southwest Cameroon. This happened in the midst of ongoing crisis in Anglophone Cameroon. We join our brothers and sisters and The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon to mourn the death of these innocent souls and condemn the cowardly act of the perpetrators who attacked unarmed children at school. May we speak out for the voiceless and stand up for the rights of the innocent.

Jeremiah 31:15

A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping

Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children,

because they are no more. 

Prayer - Psalm 31: 9 -16

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress: my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach especially to my neighbours, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. I have been forgotten like the one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel’. For I hear the whispering of many – terror on every side – as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

But I trust in you O Lord, I say, “You are my God”. My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! (ESV)