Praying for Schools

CARE (Christian Action, Research and Education) has a helpful resource on their website that gives you ten ways that you can pray for schools. Click on the image or title to read it.

From the Church of England:

Jesus,
keep reminding me of the bigger picture over the next few weeks,
keep me in your hands when all other hands disappear,
for I am convinced that neither entry requirements nor exam results,
neither anticipation nor doubts, neither success nor failure, nor any expectations,
neither last minute fears nor anxieties, nor anything else in life,

will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Please, don't let me forget it!
Amen

Loving God, let me be strong today
as I meet new people in new places.
Make me brave when I am worried,
show me how to learn from everyone around me,
and help me to do my very best. Amen.

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O God, the strength of my life,
make known your will for me in this place:
help me to discover friends among strangers,
to meet opportunities and challenges eagerly,
and to do my daily tasks in your name.
Give me strength to overcome my worries,
and preserve me in your safe keeping,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Church of England has a page on its website giving ways we can be praying for and supporting our local schools. 

The Wall is a project to build a landmark of 1 million bricks, each brick representing an answered prayer. The Wall will be built alongside a motorway giving it maximum exposure. This could be useful to look at if you are doing a lesson on prayer. You could look at Jews praying at the Western Wall alongside this.

The vision of Pray for Schools is to mobilise Christians to support their school communities through prayer. Their website offers great resources and ideas, including this prayer workshop on the armour of God, which are good for school prayer groups.

Make a real commitment to support your local schools through regular prayer. Pray for Schools have produced a short video to highlight the need and to encourage Christians to support schools through prayer.  You can watch it here.

Prayer spaces enable children and young people, of all faiths and none, to explore life’s questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way. They have a nine step guide to setting up a prayer space. Click on the image to view it.

If you are working in or supporting a school and you are facing a challenge A.C.T. (Association of Christian Teachers) would love to support you in prayer. Use their free TEXT prayer service by texting 07483 321 643.

This downloadable poster of the Lord's Prayer is a lovely resource to put up on a wall, or frame for a gift. In a classroom, you could cut it up into 6 pieces and ask children to put it back into the right order. Click here or on the picture to download the poster.

Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement which the Archbishop of Canterbury is inviting people around the world to join.

Fiona recently wrote an article for the World Prayer Centre magazine, emphasising the need for God's kingdom to come in schools, and encouraging us to commit to praying for that. You can read the article here.