Prayer for the Week: Today, and throughout this coming week, we offer prayers for our children and youth. So many marvelous experiences – from church camps to Vacation Bible School, from Mission Trips to playful time at the poolside – there have been so many wonderful moments to meet you, be inspired by you and to serve you. O God of All Life and Goodness, we are thankful for the many opportunities our young people have been given. May the Good News revealed to them in love continue to speak and engage their hearts. Whether it was a song they learned, a scripture that stuck with them, a silly game played or a living act of service, we are awed by your capacity to get inside of us – even the youngest among us. May their joyful and insightful experiences enrich the life of this community of faith moving forward. Give us ears to hear their stories, and how they have come to know you in unique ways. We pray for a few more weeks of play and rest before the new school year begins. Allow for all their summer experiences to be woven into the larger ministry of spiritual formation. This we pray as a congregation, doing so in the name of Jesus our mentor and model. Amen.
