Individually and collectively, we can change the way we live so that instead of destroying the earth, we help it to thrive, today and for future generations to come. Sixty of the Chibok girls who were released in a prisoner swap in early May were among those who have been held in prayer by Church of the Brethren congregations since Each of those congregations has received a letter from the Church of the Brethren.
Continued prayer is requested for the approximately Chibok girls who remain in captivity, and for the hundreds of other children and adults who have been abducted by Boko Haram over recent years. The 82 girls released last month were among the more than abducted from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, on April 14, A few girls escaped almost immediately, and within the first two weeks 57 had escaped.
In , another escaped, one was killed by her captors, one was rescued by the Nigerian military, and the Nigerian government negotiated the release of 21 with help from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss government.
Here is a listing of the girls released in May who had been assigned to congregations for prayer listing provided by the Global Mission and Service staff :. Pleasant, Capon Chapel. Zion Linville. Clinton, Harpers Chapel. Lebanon, Meadow Mills. Valley, Round Hill. The number of names in the list shared for prayer with the Church of the Brethren did not include the 57 who escaped in the first two weeks after the abduction.
Nigeria Crisis Response coordinator Roxane Hill has shared updates on the relief work ongoing in northeast Nigeria. Learn more at www. Some of these projects have been joint efforts with Mission 21, a Switzerland-based longterm mission partner of EYN and the Church of the Brethren. The following dollar amounts report funding from the Nigeria Crisis Fund. Some new families who were rescued from the Gwoza area are coming to relocation villages, Hill reports, including a young year-old girl with a two-month old baby whose father was a Boko Haram member.
