HANDS-ON HELP: YOUTH: PRAYER PLANES

Group, Mar/Apr 2005 by Oliver, Jessie

Having a hard time getting your junior highers to pray aloud? We found a way to really help kids take off!

We give students each a sheet of paper and ask them to write their names and prayer requests on it. Then we have all of them fold their papers into airplanes and let them fly!

After the airplane barrage, everyone picks up an airplane, and we form a circle. As we go around the circle, the students pray aloud briefly for the requests and the people on their planes.

They take the paper planes home with them and continue to pray for those people all week-the added bonus is that our kids now pray for each other with enthusiasm.

JESSIE OLIVER Bourbonnais, Illinois