The Practice of Prayer with Children
The Bible encourages believers to “pray without ceasing.” This sounds like a tall order! Yet, prayer, like other spiritual disciplines—and disciplines of any kind—are often a matter of determined effort, habit, and sustained interest. Throughout the Children’s Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study we try to orient the prayers on each weekly spread to lift up one focus or another that is emphasized in the week’s mission stories. Throughout the year many different forms of prayer are introduced. When we recall that all prayer is sharing in community with God we may become more comfortable in praying with heart, hands, voices or in silence, touching objects or envisioning persons or places. The “Practice of Prayer” portions of the Children’s Mission Yearbook are just that—an opportunity each week for children to practice praying.
In no time you and your child may find yourselves “praying without ceasing.”
The Children’s Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study has become a wildly popular resource! It is adapted from the 114-year-old publication, the Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study. Like its “parent,” the Children’s Mission Yearbook is a personal devotional resource but geared toward third- through sixth-graders. Readers learn more about being Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s mission in the United States and internationally, and they are invited to engage in prayer for that mission. Material is adapted and collected using child-friendly language and child-appropriate stories of mission from across the church. Elements common to the Mission Yearbook include Scripture verses, prayers, special days and seasons, people in mission, photos, and maps. Unique elements in the Children’s Mission Yearbook include Word of the Week, Did You Know? interactive |
