Think about this with me - nothing of eternal value happens without prayer.
It is crucial that you and your team spend significant time praying for your children's ministry.
When you pray, here are 10 things you should ask God for.
More volunteers.
In Luke 10:2, Jesus tells us to pray for this.
There is an enemy that wants to kill, steal, and destroy your ministry. We see examples of this when there is a church shooting. We see examples of this when there is abuse.
We must do everything in our power to protect the ministry with background checks, safety and security rules, and pro-active guidelines.
But we must also spend time praying for God to protect the ministry.
Spiritual growth.
We want to see the kids in our ministry grow in their faith. We want to see the families in our ministry grow in their faith. We want to see our volunteers grow in their faith.
Pray that God would create a hunger and thirst in their lives for the things of God.
Pray that God would use your lessons to grow kids' faith.
Pray that God would use the lessons to grow the faith of your volunteers. I often hear volunteers say that they learned as much as the kids did as they prepared and shared their lesson.
Unity.
Jesus says this in John 17.
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
Jesus prayed for unity. We should pray for unity.
It takes unity to grow a ministry. It takes unity to have the power of God. It takes unity to show the world that our faith is real.
We often have to make changes and adjustments in the ministry. Sometimes people have a hard time dealing with change. Disunity can try to sneak in and disrupt your ministry. Pray for unity.
Vision.
Pray that God would give you vision. Pray that people would catch the vision God gives you for the ministry.
We know that without vision people perish. Without vision volunteers grow complacent. Without vision the ministry will grow stagnant.
People will engage with and follow a God-sized vision.
Wisdom.
It takes wisdom to lead a ministry. It takes wisdom to make critical decisions. It takes wisdom to navigate choppy waters.
The good news...God says in James that if we ask for wisdom, He will give it to us.
Pray for it every day.
Strength.
Are you tired? Do you feel like you are running a ministry marathon and you are out of breath? Are you dangerously depleted?
We all get there at times.
The answer: spend time with Jesus in prayer.
Isaiah 40:31 tells us that "Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
Relying on God brings revitalized power, endurance, and spiritual uplift. It enables believers to overcome challenges with supernatural resilience, like soaring eagles or tireless runners. This "waiting" isn't passive but an active posture of dependence.
Salvation.
