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The Foot & Mouth crisis

As you are aware, the Foot & Mouth crisis is impacting our events; if you have any questions about a particular event then please contact the leader of that event.

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But for most of us this crisis only impacts our walking - no doubt you have had the farming and tourism situations in your mind and prayers.

A call to prayer

2 Chronicles 7 : 14
"If my people, who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and will heal their land."

In the last year we have seen the lowest farm prices for decades, rising suicide rates in the farming community, floods causing terrible damage in town & country, the outbreak of foot & mouth, and the rail crash in Selby.

Through the Farm Crisis Network and the Bishop of Exeter's Rural advisor, the Rev David Ursall (also a working farmer) the following is being achieved in Devon:

• prayers are being said at 12 noon individually or collectively if allowed by the movement restrictions
• every church bell is being rung at 12 noon each day as a reminder to pray
• There was a whole day of prayer in Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 24th March

Please support our farmers by joining in this time of prayer each day and make this small cry from Devon's grass roots into a National pleading for the healing of our Land.

Please PRAY:

• for the immediate farming crisis & those involved at the heart of it - the affected farmers and their families, and those who are involved in the slaughter, that the fear for the future may be lifted from them
• for MAFF, the NFU and our Government, that they are given God's wisdom in knowing the correct course of action
• For the long term structure of food production and distribution in the UK and worldwide
• For those impacted indirectly - for example, those who rely for their livelihood on tourists to rural areas
• that the people of this country will turn back to God

We are being urged to:

• Take up this call ourselves and pray each day at 12 noon
• ask your local church to become involved
• pass this URL to as many friends as you can
• read Joel Chapter 2

For more information please contact Charles & Sue Hunter or Colin & Binnie Rank

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The Institute of Public Rights of Way Officers

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

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