Serving YOUth, 

Grayson Wade, AR YA Missionary

Ben Andrews, AR DYD 

Prayer Points

The Pastor can lead, or in advance invite students, teachers, coaches, and/or administrators from within the congregation to pray.

•   Pray for Students.

• Adapting to this new school year and different learning experiences that may exist – online learning, in-person learning, or a hybrid.

• Isolated from friends and support. Difficult to still gather together.

• Pray for Teachers and Staff.

• Leading and teaching in various changing learning environments. Online, In-person or hybrid of both.

• Adapting to the ever-changing duties they face.

• Pray for Coaches.

• Challenge of meeting with their teams

• For the teams to be able to have a safe season. If you are in part of the country that has a sports season cancel, pray for the loss and disappointment of losing a sport season.

• Pray for Administrators.

• Leading through rapid change.

• Wisdom in making decisions, leading effectively, and communicating with others.

  Student Stories

• Lucas led 200 of his high school friends to the Lord within three years. Every day he would pray and ask the Holy Spirit to show him who to sit with at lunch. Lucas would ask these classmates if they could have a conversation about faith. When they said yes, he would share the good news of Jesus with them. Before leaving the table, he would ask if anyone would like to have a relationship with Jesus. He would pray with the students who said yes and then give them a Bible. What opportunities are waiting for you at your school? Be courageous and share your faith with your friends.

• As a campus missionary, Emma started praying for her friends at school and looking for opportunities to share Jesus with them. A part of her testimony is that at one time she felt like life was not worth living. One night she planned to end her life, but she prayed, “God if you are real show me.” God moved in her life that night, she recommitted her life to Jesus, and she began to share her story with her friends at school. Throughout her high school years, she led 5 of her friends to Jesus by sharing her story and encouraging them that life is worth living and there is hope in Jesus. Pray and ask God for opportunities to share Jesus with your friends.

• As a campus missionary, James made it his personal mission to witness to the Drama Club in his high school. Several of his teammates claimed to be Atheists or Agnostics. He felt like the Lord wanted him to begin having conversations with them about Jesus. He planned an evening where he would share his testimony and talk about God’s love with some of his team. After he got through sharing his story and God’s story one of his classmates accepted Jesus into his heart. Remember that God places you in strategic places in your school to be his light to the people around you. What is your personal mission?

  
  

  Additional Resources

• Prayer Zone Partner – a Prayer Zone partner is a person who prays for the school, community, and church as they pass through a school zone. For more information and additional resources for Prayer Zone Partners, click HERE.

• See You at the Pole – this global day of student prayer began in 1990 as a grass roots movement with ten students praying at their school. Thirty years later millions of students pray around the flagpole at their school on the fourth Wednesday in September every year. For more information and additional resources for SYATP, click HERE.

• Pray, Care, Share - As schools re-open or move back online, students, staff, teachers, and administration are trying to make the best of it. Youth Alive has put together a list of practical ways we can come around this community during these tough times. For more information on how your church can engage the campus, click HERE.

• Youth Alive is a strategy to present the gospel to every student before they graduate from high school. For more information about the many resources Youth Alive has to mobilize students and equip the local church, click HERE.