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Prayer

" Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" Luke 11:9

Prayer is a wonderful gift from God, as we are able to talk to God about anything, at all times - and stilling our hearts to listen to what God has to say to us.

And it is a joy to share it with our youngest of disciples. Prayer can be personal, corporate, creative, silent, loud, contemplative, joyful, written, illustrated, sung, messy, and so much more. ​We have put together a few of our favourite resources and prayer ideas for you to try out - let us know what works (and what doesn't!) and share any ideas of your own. 

Thy Kingdom Come

Thy Kingdom Come
A global prayer initiative to pray from Ascension to Pentecost. There are lots of great ideas for praying as a church and community.
They Kingdom Come Resources
  • Bright Prayer Ideas for Families at home
    A pdf with family prayer ideas
  • Family Prayer Stations at church
    This set of nine prayer stations can be set up in a church, cathedral or similar to encourage families to pray together
  • Prayer Spaces
    8 prayer spaces based around the Lord's Prayer
  • Messy Church
    ​'Everywhere Prayer!' outline for a Messy Church session
  • Kingdom Kit
    An 11 day printable resource with 10 days of prayer ideas for families and churches
  • Prayer Stations including the sorry bin, the wailing wall, and the family tree.
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Order and find out more about Journey to Pentecost

Thy Kingdom Come Prayer Ideas

Paper Prayeroplane Party!
Prayer Spaces
Bright ideas for Families at Home
Family Prayer Box
Family Prayer Stations at Church
Pray for 5
My little prayer book
Floating star prayers
Flame Finger Labyrinth

Creative Prayer

Multi-Sensory Prayer
Multisensory worship is usually corporate worship that is designed to engage the senses. Scripture Union have published a bunch of books and resources. Sample Pages for Multi-Sensory Prayer
Flame: Creative Prayer
Flame website has an amazing selection of creative prayers to choose from. A great website to spend hours trawling through! ​
Prayer ideas
  • Prayer Origami - download our prayer foldable resource to get kids playing and praying
  • Prayer Stations - Flame Creative
  • Prayer Stations - Interactive stations for different topics and celebrations throughout the year.
  • Paper Chain Prayers (Flame Creative)
  • Road Sign prayers (instructions and signs)
  • Make a Calm Jar
  • How to run a leavers service for school children
  • Foil Prayers
  • Alarm Clock Prayers (Psalm 5:3)
  • The best 5 Finger Prayers
  • My Little Prayer book - printable resource from Strandz
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Pray for Paris
A resource put together to help families explore praying for Paris, following the terrorist attacks in 2015, using colours and flags. Pray for Paris (pdf)
Includes a prayer adapted from A New Zealand Prayer Book / He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa, used here with permission.  
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Praying in Colour
'Praying in Color' = prayer + doodling. A beautiful, creative way to intercede when:
​1) You want to pray but words escape you. 
2) Sitting still and staying focused in prayer are a challenge. 
3) Your body wants to be part of your prayer. 
4) You want to just hang out with God but don’t know how.
 
5) Listening to God feels like an impossible task. 
6) Your mind wanders and your body complains. 
7) You want a visual, concrete way to pray. 
8) You need a new way to pray.

prayingincolor.com

Conversations
Silvia Purdie, from Milson Combined Church, has a website containing resources for prayer and worship. Much of it is oriented to All-Age Worship, using forms of speaking that 'ring true' for 21st century people. Check it out here.

Prayer Spaces and Prayer Stations

Prayer Spaces in Schools
Prayer Spaces in Schools enable children and young people, of all faiths and none, to explore these life questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way.

Here are a few prayer stations that have been used in an Anglican School in Wellington
  • A letter to God
  • Candle prayers
  • Labyrinth (use a finger labyrinth like this one)
  • Rock prayer
  • ​Prayers for the Refugee Crisis 
  • Saying Sorry Prayers

Resources
  • Flame Creative Prayer Stations - This blog has a great range of prayer stations that could be used for children and intergenerational settings. 
  • Outdoor Worship Stations - great for the warm summer days. Set them up around your church grounds, or in a park - followed by a family picnic and games.
  • Prayer Stations from Thy Kingdom Come
  • Creative Theology website - A few interesting ideas of prayer stations for young people

The Lord's Prayer

How to pray the Lords prayer in NZ sign language. ​(Turn on the captions!)
The Lord's Prayer in te reo Māori, sung by the New Zealand Youth Choir at the ANZAC service in Wellington, 2017
The Lord's Prayer Unplugged
The Lord's Prayer Unplugged provides a unique opportunity to explore the biblical breadth and depth encapsulated in Jesus' famous prayer. The material can be used as a complete teaching programme over the course of ten weeks.
Prayer Spaces
8 prayer spaces based around the Lord's Prayer, from Thy Kingdom Come

Prayer Stations
Prayer stations to be laid out in a labyrinth, from Thy Kingdom Come

Labyrinths

Labyrinths
  • Labyrinth activities for kids
  • Working with the Labyrinth 
    This book offers ideas and examples of labyrinths in use in various situations: arts, community and social settings; schools, colleges and universities; a hospice, and a secure hospital; counselling, psychotherapy and well-being; churches, retreats and interfaith contexts. (Di Williams is one of the leading UK Labyrinth trainers)
  • Finger Labyrinths 
  • All Age Labyrinths - a reflection from Krish Kandiah 
  • Lord's Prayer Stations to be laid out in a labyrinth, from Thy Kingdom Come
  • Pentecost Labyrinth ideas

​Labyrinth ideas include:
  • beach labyrinth marked in the sand
  • prayer stations dotted around the labyrinth
  • labyrinth craft on round paper plates
  • mowing one onto a grass field
  • rope of lights marking out a labyrinth in the dark
  • mark one out of chalk in the playground or park
  • masking tape on your hall floor (don't use gaffa/duck tape, it stains floors!)
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The labyrinth at children's church at Johnsonville Anglican, Wellington. ​

Fidget Spinner Prayer

Fidget Spinner Prayer
A fun prayer wheel to get kids praying, using the latest toy craze to sweep the world!  Download the Fidget Spinner prayer and a new kids worksheet worksheet to go alongside it, to draw or write your prayers
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Prayer Placemats

Prayer Placemats
Put together by St Stephen's Tamahere, these prayer placemats to colour in have a simple karakia in different languages - english, te reo, afrikaans and german. They can then be used as a table prayer at home.
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Media

Just Prayers
Prayer of St Francis
by Mark Pierson

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