Our church is located in a Big Ten college town, and we have a large children and youth program, so there is a school-driven cycle of events each year.  In the late summer our Tuesday morning prayer times focus on the campus and the children.  For this post we will concentrate on prayer for the Youth.

We used two sets of verses to begin our prayer time: 

Psalm 78.1-4, which includes “We will not hide them (what we have heard and known) from our children, but tell them to the coming generation.” 

Deuteronomy 6.4-9, the passage after the Ten Commandments which tells us to “teach them diligently to your children.”

And then we used a list of people (teachers, assistants, youth leaders, parents, staff, and the children themselves) and events (trainings, special activities, Sunday schedule) to focus our prayers, asking (like the believers did in Acts 4.29-30) that God would continue to work and that all the people involved would speak the Word with boldness .