Looking for a tool to help make praying more fun and fit naturally into your children’s daily routines?
Sarah Holmstrom and Stephanie Thurling are two friends who met during their undergrad years and launched a ministry together called Raising Prayerful Kids. Though they live in different parts of the country, they both are passionate about helping parents teach their kids how to pray. Authors of Raising Prayerful Kids, they love to share easy, life-giving, and fun ways to help children experience God through prayer.
During this episode, Sarah Holmstrom joins Lee Ann to discuss fun and engaging games and activities from her book that can guide you in helping your children build lifelong habits of praying.
Key Takeaways:
- The paper prayer chain is a weekly or daily activity where children can either draw or write on pieces of paper something to pray for.
- Creating blessing bags with your children – putting together bags for the homeless and praying over each bag; this can help your family change their perspective in understanding that everyone is made in the image of God.
- The repent prayer game is a teaching tool that helps children understand that repenting is not only apologizing for doing something wrong but also, it’s the action of turning away from that sin completely.
- There are many ways you can make confession normal and fun instead of scary and uncomfortable – 180 jump turns or confession stations.
- Divine reading is a way to pray through the Bible and help your children understand what God is trying to teach them about him and about them.
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