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National Day of Prayer For Children’s Ministry

Posted on May 3, 2011 | Leave a comment

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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.

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Planning See You At the Pole for Children’s Ministry

Posted on September 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

Every year, youth and children from around the nation gather at the flagpole at their schools and pray for revival. Some have left children out of this great event because of the need for adult supervision. But adults are legally allowed to join students in prayer. One of the greatest things you can do for the children in your ministry as they go back to their elementary schools is to organize a See You At the Pole Event.

 

See You at the Pole is held on the last Wednesday of September at 7:00 am. This year, it is September 22, this year. You can find more information about See You At The Pole  at thier website. The theme for See You at the Pole 2010 is REVEAL and comes from this verse.

Our Father in Heaven, reveal who you are. Matthew 6:9-11

Organizing See You at the Pole for Children’s Ministry:

Pray: Bathe the students who want to participate in this in prayer.

Prepare: Have an adult leader and student leaders at each school. The students can advertise the event in the school by hanging up posters and telling their friends. The adult would notify the school principal and parents about the event and let them know that there will be adult supervision.

Publicize: Promote this event in your children’s ministry. Get the children excited about it. Give children fliers to pass out to their friends at school. Send a letter home to the parents telling them about this ministry and how their children can be involved.

Plan:  Have the adult at each school get together with the students and plan what they will do. What will they pray for? Will they sing a song or read scripture?

For more information about See You at the Pole, visit their website here.

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Prayer Sponsors For Children

Posted on August 25, 2010 | Leave a comment


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School has started or will be starting soon, and children are entering a spiritual war zone. They need prayer. That’s why having a prayer sponsor for each child in your ministry is essential. Here’s a few ideas on how to have prayer sponsors.

Advertise in the congregation. Let the members of the congregation know that they are committing not only to praying for a child every day, but to connecting with that child at least once a month. They should also send the child a birthday card and thinking of you postcards occasionally. Let the sponsors know they are committing to this for one year.

Launch the Program with a Special Day. You could have a special banquet where the prayer sponsors will sit with the children they’re praying for. Or you could have a special children’s anointing service and have each prayer sponsor pray for his or her child.

Give Information. Prayer sponsors should be given information about the child they are praying for including age, grade, school, parent’s names, address, email, and phone number.

Have a list of suggestions on what to pray for. You could put these suggestions on a bookmark they can place in their Bibles. Make the bookmarks out of card stock paper. Here’s a list you could use.

  • School
  • Family
  • Health
  • Activities
  • Relationship with God

An Opportunity to Give. You can also use this as a way to raise funds for children’s ministry. Give the sponsors enough offering envelopes for the year and suggest they give a certain amount of money to the children’s ministry once a month in the name of the child they are sponsoring. If there are any trips or special events that cost money, the money they give will go toward the child they’re sponsoring.

Invite prayer sponsors to children’s ministry events, and let them know what’s going on in children’s ministry in your church.

The prayer sponsor program can be one of the most effective programs in your children’s ministry. Prayer changes things.

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