Miranda Pederson/Daily NewsBarbara Kemp (clockwise from right), Seba Hope, Dottie Barfield, Jan Reynolds, Naomi Sinclair and Jennie Edwards pray Oct. 28 during Moms in Touch at Living Hope Baptist Church.

On Nov. 14, every child in the world will be prayed for.

In celebration of 25 years, Moms In Touch International will host “Arise! Cry Out!,” a praying event where women from around the world will pray for children, said Barbara Kemp, a Moms In Touch International member from Bowling Green.

“It will be a day for extraordinary prayer,” she said. “We thought this was a great way to honor children worldwide. The main thing is praying for this generation of children. We feel God has called us to do this.”

Kemp said women will be gathering to pray in about 1,600 sites worldwide – including sites in every state and in more than 90 countries, including Cuba, Israel, Pakistan and Sudan.

“We are asking women to unite and pray for children,” she said. “So if you take in all the time zones, it will be 24 hours of nonstop prayer.”

Here in Bowling Green, the prayer site will be Eastwood Baptist Church, which will host moms from Warren, Butler, Barren, Allen and Simpson counties, Kemp said.

The event, which will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., is open to the public, Kemp said. She said they will start with praise and worship, and the next three hours will focus on praying.

“We’re not randomly praying, but praying a specific text out of the Bible,” she said. “That makes our prayer so much more powerful, because we’re praying God’s word back to him. We’re asking him to fulfill his promise.”

Founded in 1984, Moms In Touch International is two or more moms who meet regularly to pray for their children, their schools, their teachers and administrators; mothers, grandmothers or anyone who is willing to pray for a specific child and school; and moms who believe that prayer makes a difference, according to the group’s Web site.

In January 1988, the first Moms In Touch retreat drew 35 women. By May, the organization had done its first radio program, which prompted more than 20,000 responses.

And now with 25 years under its belt, the organization is seeking to do something big.

“We think this is a wonderful way to honor what we do,” Kemp said.

Kemp said MOPs – Moms of Preschoolers – is partnering with them, and are encouraging their members to be a part of the day of prayer.

“What’s so exciting is we’re looking forward to what we think God will do in response to our humility and obedience to pray,” she said.

Kemp said mothers often pray.

“But it’s something about when you’re united,” she said. “In God’s word, it says, ‘when two or more gather in my name, he not only hears our prayers but answers them.’ God uses prayer as that dynamite.”

— For more information or to register for the event or make a donation, contact Barbara Kemp at 202-2636 or visit www.momsintouch.org.