As I mentioned briefly in the previous post, prayer has been a huge part of what we do in Children's Ministry at our church. One of my favorite stories is of Silas, who at the time was 5 years old. We had passed out hearts to adults in the church on the first Sunday in February and asked them to write a prayer request on them. Then each time we came to church during the month, the children would divide them up and pray for the requests.
Silas needed help reading the adult writing on the prayer hearts, so I had Kaylyn, a teenager sit with him and tell him what to pray. She read the request to him and he'd close his eyes, pray, and then when he was finished he'd let her know. He didn't rush through the prayers, and was very intent on praying over each reqeust. It was so powerful. When he got thorugh his stack of 6 or so prayers, he came to me and got more hearts, went back and sat in Kaylyn's lap once again and together they prayed through the stack of prayer hearts.
Kaylyn had tears in her eyes, and I a huge lump in my throat as we experienced this precious time of prayer with Silas.
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