Childrens Prayer Jar
This week the elementary kids and I talked about prayer. First they impressed me as they recited the Lord’s Prayer without any help from me – way to go kids! Then we talked a little more about what the Lord’s Prayer means and how God has given us this pattern prayer so we can learn how to pray. The kids shared some of the ways that they pray at home. Some of them pray in the mornings, some in the evenings, some before meals and some all day long (one young pastor’s son even claimed that he will pray until the day he dies!) One of the boys shared how he prays the ACTS prayer every morning. For those of us adults who might not know this, he explained that it stands for Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication.I explained to the kids that the adults in the church would be meeting this week (don't forget Wednesday at 7:00) to pray for the church, and that they could also be praying for our church. We started a Prayer Jar where we will be keeping track of our prayers throughout the next several months. We wrote lots of prayers and placed them in our jar, and each time we meet (every other week) we’ll review those prayers. The prayers that God has answered we will write the answers down on the slips of paper to remind us that God answers prayer. And the prayers that God hasn’t answered yet we will continue to pray for. Some of the prayer requests that are in our jar (these came from the kids, not me) include:
Safe travels for Mr. Brown
A playground for our church
For our church community to grow
Our own building for our church
That we will spread the gospel
To be able to give a bible to a friend at school who just became a Christian
We also have some prayer requests for family members with cancer, mean kids at school, sports teams, and I must warn you that we are praying for one child who really wants a dog and a pet frog. I know you’re all hoping that is your son :) We’ll keep you posted on our prayer jar, but I wanted to remind you all that the kids of our church are praying, so we need to join in too!
posted by Kelly @ 9:13 PM
6 Comments:
Do you mean "young pastor's" son or a pastor's young son. I think the first?
Good point. But you've caught me in a bind now. I was referring to the pastors son as being young, but I must also refer to the pastor as being young since he is same age as I am....which is most certainly young!
dang it. i knew i was the frog/dog person.
uhhh...i hope you are teaching them that sometimes God takes years to answer prayers...like... hmmm let's see...6 + x = 18...yeah, like 12 years, right?
Yep! We'll be talking about how sometimes God doesn't answer prayers the way we want him to, and also how God knows what we need and sometimes what we think we want is not what God knows we need. I guarantee that will come up....unless suddenly our church gets an Xbox, we have parties every week for the kids, and we get lots of money. If this happens it means God has decided to answer every prayer in our jar, which would be very cool, but might cause me to rethink this lesson.
would you be referring to the same pastor's son who thinks the British don't pray? your work is cut out for you Kelly - you will set this kid straight right? his parents are counting on you.
mother of a pastor's son
You expect me to set the pastors son straight? That's a big job! I think this might be one of those cases where it takes a church to raise a child :) (and really....I wouldn't want to set him too straight becuase I love to hear the things that he says!)
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