All shall be well: alitany for the ELCA Malaria Campaign
Gracious God, you created your world with love and sustain it with grace and care. Through your son, Jesus Christ, you revealed your love for the entire world and invited us to see your promise of healing and wholeness, even in the midst of brokenness. You called us to respond to the medical injustice of malaria, and through the ELCA Malaria Campaign, we are answering that call. You empower us to confront sickness and death with faith and hope, trusting in your promise that all shall be made well. Your salvation extends to every corner of your world…
To the leper in Galilee,
All shall be well.
To the feverish in Capernum,
All shall be well.
To the blind in Bethsaida,
All shall be well.
To the dying in Cana,
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
To the clinics in Zambia,
All shall be well.
To the children in Angola,
All shall be well.
To the fatigued in Uganda,
All shall be well.
To the mothers in Nigeria,
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
To the people seeking treatment,
All shall be well.
To the health workers providing care,
All shall be well.
To the pastors educating their congregations,
All shall be well.
To the families beneath their nets,
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
To all corners of your world,
Your promise extends.
For wholeness and life,
For abundance and joy,
For us, and for all of creation, O everlasting God,
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
O gracious God, you created and sustained your people with loving kindness, bringing them out of slavery to freedom, out of despair to hope, out of sin to salvation. Through the work of our Lutheran partners in Africa you are bringing your people out of sickness and into health. We praise you for your mercy, and we give thanks for your grace. We praise you for the progress that has been made against malaria. We give thanks for lives that have been saved, bodies that have been healed, and communities that have been empowered. In all your ways, you have shown concern for our well-being and have reconciled humanity and all of creation as one household of God. Grant us your strength, O mighty Lord, and your peace, O merciful God, that we may be sustained even in the face of sickness by your promise that all shall one day be made well.
Amen