Prayer Night

So the other day we had a prayer evening with the youth at camp victory. My co-leader and set up six different prayer stations including a poster to write the name of family members, instructions to think of specific ways to pray for your community, encouragement notes, private prayer time with God and praying for friends.

For the last station she had a bag of skittles for each group, the way it worked was that for every three skittles the kids ate they had to name one friend that they wanted to pray for and share why they wanted to pray for them.  I was leading a group of three boys who are very special to me. They have been a part of camp since I started back in June and I have gotten pretty tight with them. The one boy is particularly special since he hated me for the majority of the summer and then near the end I had a huge break through with him.

So anyways back to my story. I was doing the last station with these boys the one with the skittles and praying for their friends. To be honest they were way more interested in the skittles then in praying for their friends but as we got more into they also got more serious and honest. They started sharing names of their friends and reasons like, this kid is getting bullied, or this kid’s family doesn't care about him enough, they didn't even come to his graduation, other kids wants to be a cop when he grows up but the way he is living currently will mess up his chances of being able to become a cop, or this kid doesn't have very many friends at school, for the family that had just four days earlier lost their 15 year old son to gun crime. It was heart breaking to hear the sad situations of their friends but it was encouraging and amazing to hear them desiring to lift them up in prayer.

Continue to pray for the work that is happening here in TO and pray that we would continue to experience things like this in our kids!