Have you seen the cool new thing to teach prayer to Sunday School classes? Prayer stations are all the rage, or at least they are on my Pinterest feed, and I have to admit I rather like adding a tangible element to prayer to help kids focus.
My one problem with most prayer station ideas?
Most prayer stations focused on you and your feelings, instead of on the person you’re supposed to be talking to. Now, my Sunday School class is part of the way through a unit on Moses, and all throughout we see Moses talking to God.
I mean, you can’t go 5 verses without reading “and Moses went to talk with God,” or some variation on that. So, we’ve been talking a lot about prayer. A LOT.
And to sum it up I wanted them to pray for things that are important to God. But, if I have a hard time focusing and I’m in my 30s, 8-10 year olds are certainly not going to focus better than me (Actually, some probably can, I have the attention and focus of a squirrel).
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Our prayer stations
I tried to get pictures of each station, but the kids came in and had it before I got them all, so some of these pictures are of the station in action, and the forgiveness station it didn’t feel right to get a picture of the kids there.
I’m adding in some Bible lessons that you might tie each prayer station to as I think of lessons to tie the particular station to.
Families- pray for your family and for other families. I had a small plastic heart for them to take home to remind them to pray for their families.
Applicable Bible lessons:
Forgiveness- God has called us to forgive those who hurt us. So, they were to write down the name of someone they needed to forgive and pray for that person. When they were done praying, they erased that person’s name, just like God has erased all of their sins.
Applicable Bible lessons:
- Joseph forgives his brothers
- it’s a stretch, but David and King Saul
Government- This was the most boring station because I had nothing for them to do or take. They prayed for the different levels of the government.
I have the best readers and here are some of your great suggestions:
- Pictures of the different government leaders for them to take home and pray for
- LEGO bricks to build into a wall, much like Nehemiah did
Some Bible stories that tie in:
Missions- I asked a missionary we support for pictures of people they’ve met with specific prayer requests. Each kid took one of the pictures and prayed for that request, and took the picture home to keep praying. For safety reasons, I’ve covered and pixelated the pictures the missionaries shared.
Bible stories that tie in:
Names of Jesus- Take one of the slips of paper with a name of Jesus (we just googled and printed some out), and trace the name of Jesus in the salt as you praise God.
Bible stories that tie-in:
- Isaiah
- Revelation
- I’ll have to think for some other good ones, most that I was thinking of are for the names of God
Pray for our church- I found a small puzzle from Hobby Lobby that they could color as they prayed for our pastors, the elder board, for the Sunday School teachers.
Bible stories that tie-in:
Persecuted Church- There are many countries it is illegal to be a Christian or to be a missionary (including the one where my friends are), I printed off a list from Open Doors of the 50 most dangerous countries, and as they prayed for the country they covered that country with play dough on a map. If I’d had enough play dough I would have asked them to leave the play dough for each country, but we did not, sadness.
Bible stories that tie-in:
Praise God- This was just a giant roll of butcher paper with lots of markers, and they got to write what they were thankful for, or what they wanted to praise God for. I told them to be as artistic or as plain as they wanted to be, and their personalities really shone through.
Bible stories that tie-in:
Prayer Rock- Well, it was supposed to be rocks, but I couldn’t find my stash of rocks, so it became popsicle sticks. We came up with a list of attributes of God, and each kid would choose one of those attributes and praise God for that attribute as they wrote it on their stick.
Bible stories that tie-in:
- Isaiah
- Psalms 23
- Job, where God displays HIS glory (yes, these were all linked to earlier)
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