Why Pray?

Hi everyone and welcome to Christchurch Kids. This Sunday we are joining in with the whole of our church and asking a BIG QUESTION...

Why pray?

Here's a short clip to start to explain why we pray.

We're getting an idea about prayer now. It's about being in a relationship with God. 

We can't talk to God like we talk to our friends (can we?) so here is another short clip with some ideas about how we can pray.

We have an idea about why we pray and how we can pray but what do we pray about?

This video talks a bit more about prayer and gives us some great examples of when people have prayed in the Bible. 

Using the letters P R A Y can help us remember the things we might pray about. Our colouring sheet this week looks at those letters from the video and you can download it here.

A game

 We can talk to God about anything! Have you ever played the alphabet game where you have to think of something that starts with every letter of the alphabet, such as animals. See if you can think of something beginning with every letter of the alphabet that we can talk to God about.

Prayer

We are going to have a go at making our own prayer station. A prayer station is an activity or a collection of objects that help us to think about our prayers. 

We can make a Lego prayer station. This a great idea from the Flame:Creative blog. If you don't have little Lego, you could use Duplo or Playmobil or you could draw a prayer station.

Start by making a cross shape on the base to help us remember we are bringing our prayers to Jesus.

Now you can use your Lego to pray. You could use different colour bricks to represent different things you would like to pray for. You could build bricks together to represent a family or a group.  You can use figures and accessories too, such as trees and flowers for prayers for the environment.

When you have assembled your prayer station, take some time to be still and talk to God about the things you have on the board.

We've got a song about prayer. When we pray we are trusting God instead of trying to do things on our own. Can you make up your actions for this song?

Thanks for joining us. We would love to see pictures of your prayer stations. If you would like to send them to us to put on the blog, please follow the instructions in the right hand column. We hope you all have a great week and we will be back on Wiggle Wednesday for a song and a dance.