Day 3: Prayers for Churches Serving Children
Prayer for Churches and Ministries who are Mobilizing Mentors to serve through Public Schools
Did you know that while every child has the capacity to achieve at high levels, there are a variety of social and economic circumstances that threaten a student’s potential? Effective mentors can help students overcome these barriers and excel academically and personally. At its most basic level, mentoring helps because it guarantees a young person that there is someone who cares about them. A child is not alone in dealing with day-to-day worries. Did you know that there is a growing movement in churches and ministries across the city to recruit and deploy mentors?
Let’s Pray
Father, we lift your name on high today and give thanks for your great love for us. You are the Alpha and Omega. Your love is from everlasting to everlasting.
Lord, we understand that teaching is more than an occupation. It is a gift from you (Rom 12:7). First of all, we want to thank you for the many dedicated teachers and educators who serve the children of our community. We ask you to strengthen them with your wisdom, counsel, knowledge and power (Isaiah 11:2).
We also recognize that the challenges faced by teachers are at times overwhelming and that mentors help lift the load for a teacher while also giving specific, personal attention to a child. We are asking you to help the congregations and ministries of the greater Houston area to tap even more deeply into their large pool of potential volunteers. Please help us Lord to dramatically increase the number of students who have a dependable, consistent mentor to demonstrate your love and care.
Forgive us Lord, for making sure that our own children have the very best in educational opportunity while being apathetic and uninformed about children who, through no fault of their own, do not have a consistent, caring adult presence in their lives. Forgive us Lord, for thinking that when our own children are raised that our job is done. Call out a generation of young adults and retired adults to take on the challenge of mentoring. Change our hearts toward these children so that it more closely aligns with yours.
Lord, today we give thanks for the Fifth Street Community and their work in Armstrong Elementary School in Fort Bend ISD. Thank you for the hope that children, teachers and school administrators alike experience from the support of this mentoring community.
It’s our prayer today Lord, that as your church responds to this call, that every child would have a mentor and every teacher would have an encourager. Your word declares: So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come (Psalms 71:18). Raise up a growing army of mentors who will become the incarnational presence of your might to this next generation. All of this we ask in your name, the name of Jesus, and for the sake of the children of our city.
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