The National Day of Prayer
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Theme: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Verse: I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust. Psalm 91:2
It’s important to teach children how to pray for their nation.
One way to do that is to have a series of messages leading up to the day teaching children to pray. A great resource for teaching children to pray is PRAY KIDS MAGAZINE. I highly recommend it. Here’s a link to an online sample of the magazine teaching children to pray for those in authority over them.
You could also have a special service that night for children to take the time to prayer. Have a list of the things you can have the children pray for. Go through the list with the children. Some things that should be on that list are these:
- President Obama
- Supreme Court
- Congress (List you senator and US representative)
- Governor
- State Officials
- Mayor
- City Officials
- Police
- Firefighters
- Teachers
- Hospital and emergency workers
- Pastors and church leaders
- Parents
- Peace of Israel (We are blessed when we pray for the peace of Israel.)
- Great Awakening in America
There are many ways children’s ministries can participate in the National Day of Prayer and resources available on the web.
Children’s Ministry Blog has a post on ideas to involve your children in the National Day of Prayer.
Free Lord’s Prayer and National Day of Prayer coloring pictures are available here.
If you’re interested in a prayer program you can use with your kid’s clubs at church, click here.
Annie’s National Day of Prayer Page for children has some great ideas on how to teach children to pray and how to incorporate the National Day of Prayer into your children’s ministry.
Here’s a great article called Children Can Pray with ideas to teach children how to pray.
National Children’s Prayer Conference is an organization encouraging children to pray for our nation.
National Day Of Prayer Official Site.
Children are great prayer warriors in the Kingdom of God. They only need to be taught and released to pray. Watch this video clip of children praying.


