30 Day Prayer Challenge

We were dreaming of ways that we could encourage quick, specific prayer during a NNYM Training team meeting. In that discussion the 30-Day Prayer Prompt Challenge was born! Thanks to the quick work of Nick Damonte, we had a list of thirty specific requests. When the rest of the staff heard about the idea the initiative was launched. If you would like to borrow it for your ministry... here is the list!

30-Day Prayer Challenge Prompts 

1. Pray for the students you know as they prepare for the next school year.

2. Pray for the Christian teachers you know who will be serving students this year.

3. Pray for the Christian administration as they prepare to serve families this school year. 

4. Pray for teens in Juvenile Detention Facilities in your area to be mentored.

5. Pray for student athletes to use their platform for God's purpose.

6. Pray for campus ministry clubs and their impact this school year.

7. Pray for wisdom on school boards as they make decisions for the community.

8. Pray for Christian coaches to recognise the opportunity to share the gospel.

9. Pray for your local youth pastor as they plan and prepare for the year.

10. Pray for your local youth volunteers as they begin new relationships with students.

11. Pray for parents as they enter a new season of school, pray for wisdom and rest.

12. Pray for youth ministry networks as they come together to serve your community.

13. Pray for a youth leader you may know from another church.

14. Pray for the students that live in your neighborhood.

15. Pray for the students at your community's high school.

16. Pray for the students at your rival high school.

17. Pray for unity among the churches in your area.

18. Pray for governmental authorities to make wise decisions.

19. Pray for students who are depressed and lonely to find hope through Christ.

20. Pray for homeschooled students and families.

21. Pray for communities where there are no local youth ministries.

22. Pray for students who struggle with mental health.

23. Pray for students who struggle with addictions.

24. Pray for students who are raised in a home hostile to Christianity.

25. Pray for youth leaders who feel burned out and under-resourced.

26. Pray for churches to connect and partner with parachurch organizations.

27. Pray for local senior pastors as they plan the vision of the next year at their church.

28. Pray for students who feel alone today.

29. Pray for business leaders to support and encourage youth ministries

30. Pray about how you can get involved with youth ministry in your area today.

Our purpose for this initiative is not to start the next social media movement, it's to encourage people to take a moment and intentionally petition the God of the universe in prayer for the students they know.

The WIN is people praying for young people and those who serve them. So if that means YOU create YOUR OWN 30-Day Prayer Prompt Challenge... GO FOR IT! If that means sharing our posts to your favorite social media platforms, please do. Let's mobilize our churches to be in prayer for student ministry!

James 4:1-3 in the NIV says, "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."

We hope that the warning from James is NOT true of us. Maybe simple prayers can unite the church and pour out God's blessings on students this school year. We won't know until we ask!

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