One of my favorite things to do with young children is to introduce PRAYER PROPS. You can use prayer props when praying on a shower curtain map, prayer poster, or even while looking in a mirror and praying for yourselves. You can even use them for 1-year-olds and up to early school-age children. Here are some of my favorite PRAYER PROPS and the prayers we use with them. A FLASHLIGHT You can use a FLASHLIGHT
Prayer caves weren’t my original idea (We have the Children’s Equipping Center to thank for that one!), but I have used them in my own and in children’s ministry for over a decade. Prayer caves is a simple tool to help young children shut out the distractions around them and focus on hearing the voice of God. We do It without fanfare and without excess explanation. We simply believe that God wants to speak to
Along the Way: Pray with Your Children in the Day to Day. Deuteronomy 6:7- 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Training our children in the ways of God wasn’t supposed to be relegated to a devotional time a few times a week or (God forbid) Sunday
Five things to do with those Little Bibles Do you have a few of those little Bibles lying around? You know, the Gideon Bibles that have the New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs in them and are about the size of your hand? If not, you can find them at your local dollar store for, you guessed it, a dollar. With the miniature print and the King James Version text often found therein, you might be
As November draws to a close, the first corporate Hedge Evening Watch (HEW) comes to an end. The Hedge Evening Watch began as a flash of divine inspiration – a spark that ignited a small flame in September as Kevin and I tried this thing out, navigating logistics and seeking the Holy Spirit for prayer direction. Then the flame grew as sixteen other people joined us for the month of November in a corporate pilot
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