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Back-to-School Prayer

Since school is starting for a majority of children and young people this month, we'd like to leave you with some prayer points that you can use in your church, home and kids prayer ministry group. Praying for schools... Help our teachers be men and women of integrity and character. Make our schools platforms for learning virtue and practicing it. Give our kids a heart for God that is unapo

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What are you doing?

What are you doing? The question is simple. The question is fair. The question is required. For many of us reading this post the question will give rise to various answers on how we are reaching our children and training them to pray. We train our own children. We train our grandchildren. We may even be training other children in our church or neighborhood. But this isn't the answer to the questi

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26Jul2011
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Africa: Slavery & Famine

The crisis situation in South Africa has escalated to epic proportions. Slavery in North Sudan still exists, even after South Sudan has now become its own nation. Famine in Somalia has forced thousands to flee their land as refugees to Kenya and Ethiopia, while thousands more have already died from lack of food, water, shelter and medical care. The situation is dire, and therefore, it must become

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19Jul2011
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Alicia’s Prayer

As I passed the adult Bible fellowship on the way to my classroom of precocious 4- and 5-year-olds, I could see all my friends laughing and eating doughnuts. With an envious twinge, I silently wondered why I'd ever volunteered to teach these little ones. Their teacher had led the class for several years without a break, until one morning I noticed her looking especially tired. I wanted to help, s

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Kids Can Effect Change

Several years ago my friend and fellow Kids prayer teacher came across a need that no one had heard anything about. Halfway across the world was a group of children that just happened to be the same age as the kids in our group. The difference was, these kids were walking miles in the dark to sleep underground to avoid being abducted and forced to fight in a war that was decades old. They were cal

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