Today is the first day for the new incoming tailoring and carpentry students. Father, please surround them with Your peace as they spend time on the Next Life campus. Many of them have never experienced a school like this before—everything is new: unfamiliar faces, no caning, a kind of love they do not yet understand, and the presence of mzungu (white people), which for many is entirely new.

Calm their hearts, Lord, and help them recognize that this is a safe place—one where they will learn far more than a trade. Prepare their hearts to receive Your Holy Spirit and allow Him to work in formative and miraculous ways in their lives.

I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.