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Tick-Tock Prayer Clock

Even if you have a heart for prayer, you may sometimes run out of ideas that help you talk with Jesus. Use this prayer clock to help train your brain to pray! The clock covers time slots for: Petition Adoration Intercession Confession [download id="50" format="5"]

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21Sep2011
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Sweet and Sour Grab Bags

Prepare one grab bag with several different kinds of candy—sweet, sour, hot, and dark chocolate—for every four kids. Form groups of four and give each group a grab bag. Have children take turns reaching into the bag for one candy. When each child has a treat, explain that the candies represent different kinds of prayer.  Use the following examples to lead kids in prayer.  Sweet candy—than

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23Aug2011
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Pin-the-Prayer

In one of our previous post we mentioned the idea of using an inflatable globe as a creative prayer tool for kids. Sometimes kids can get more focused on throwing the globe around than praying so if this is your situation, try this alternative method. Get a large map that has continents and country names on it. Blindfold the child, then play Pin-the-Prayer-on-the-Prayer-Map (similar to Pin-the-Tai

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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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