BCS Prayer Walk
This morning, as part of our chapel program, our teachers and students, along with some parents, had a prayer walk through the school. It was a new and exciting experience for all of us.
You may be wondering – what is a prayer walk? Simply put – it is a time of prayer – while walking to different places. We divided our student body into 12 groups – with different ages of students, along with an adult. Each group stopped at various places in the building – and prayed.
What were we trying to accomplish? I’ve noticed that our students’ prayers, especially in chapel, center around “help us have a good day… help us have a good time at recess… help us do good in school..” I wanted to help them move beyond that to looking around our world and our community and to pray for others. That happened!
Imagine a group of 9 people (a teacher, 2 Kindergarteners, 1st grader, 3rd grader, 4th grader, 5th grader, 7th grader, and an 8th grader) walking around the building – stopping to pray. They may have stopped to pray for our specials teachers, their pastors, the principal, the people that take the BAT bus, the people that live in the high rise across the street, the younger students at BCS, the people in the ESOL ministry downstairs, and our president and leaders in our government. Our older students prayed, our younger students prayed. We all prayed.
After a half hour, we met back in our lunchroom to re-gather for class. While we were waiting, I asked the students to give answers to the following question: “We can pray________.”
The answers were: “outside…with our eyes open…. for anybody… anywhere… for anything…. With our eyes closed… in any language…. With anybody… with two or three people…. For other people…. At any time…”
Our teachers commented that the older students help guide our younger ones in prayer. They set examples. Our younger ones were able to observe our older students taking on a leadership position within the student body.
PrayerWalking through BCS… and beyond…
If you would like to go on your own prayerwalk, take this list - and pray!
Walk through and around the building. Stop at each numbered area to pray. You can pray short sentence prayers. Pray silently, or with a friend, or out loud with your group. Just…. “pray and not give up.” Luke 18:1
Start with a numbered site and move your way through and around the building. Stop to pray for the people or teacher in that classroom, or for the people that work or pass by there.
1. Sanctuary (large chapel) – pray for those who worship in this room
Psalm 29:2 – “Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness. “
2. Small chapel – pray for all our specials classes – music, art, library, gym, dance, basketball
2 Samuel 22:50 – “Therefore I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to your name.”
3. Playground – pray for peace on our playground
Ephesians 4:3 – “Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”
4. Trees and bushes – pray for spiritual growth of all that come to this property
John 15:5 - "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
5. Parking lot facing BAT bus station – the people who live and work in Brockton – those that attend other schools - that all will come to know Jesus Christ
John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
6. High Rise across the street – Pray for the poor, the hurting and the elderly
Deuteronomy 15:11 – “There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.”
7. Parking lot by dismissal cones – for the parents and families who bring their children to school
Proverbs 1:8 – “Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching”.
8. Flag pole – for the leaders of our city and country
Hebrews 13:17 – “Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.”
9. Front door – for all that enter our building
Luke 11:9, 10 - “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
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