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Written by:
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4/1/2009 7:00 AM
When you work in the area of Christian Education, you begin to see ministry ideas everywhere. Things that you do and read and hear make you think of ideas for Sunday School or youth group or a children’s message. I remember my father, a retired minister, saying, “That’ll preach!” This month’s prayer idea came to me the other day while I was on Facebook. (Unfortunately providing positive reinforcement for the time I spend on this site…)
For those of you who have not yet discovered Facebook, one of its features is that you can update your “status” which then serves to inform all of your friends what you are doing at any given moment. The other day, one of my friend’s status update said that she had just used status updates as a location for a prayer field trip. She explained that she had prayed for each friend who had recently updated his or her status.
When I read this, ideas started popping into my head:
This would be an interesting activity to try with youth, many of whom have Facebook pages. Here is a way to encourage them to incorporate prayer into their daily activities.
What about having kids pray the contact list in their cell phone, spending a few moments praying for each person (or business)? This could be done in a group, with each person praying silently.
No need to limit these activities to youth. Many adults have Facebook pages and cell phones, too.
I haven’t yet had an opportunity to try out these ideas. If you try one, or if they spark an idea in your mind, I’d love to hear about it! Post a comment or send me an email.
~Sally Hoelscher