Prayer - We can talk to God anywhere!

 Hello and welcome to our final week on Christchurch Kids.

 We are going to be taking a break over the summer holidays and we are really hoping that in September we will be more able to meet back in church for fun on Sunday mornings.

We hope that our blog has helped you learn more about God and have fun too. We hope that is has started some conversations with your family about what it means to make God part of your every day life.

A big part of making God part of your day is keeping in touch with prayer. 

We've looked at all sorts of things about prayer over the past few weeks...

We can...

...tell God how amazing He is.

...ask for God's help.

... say the Lord's prayer.

... say sorry.

...say thank you.

...listen to God.

... talk to God about our worries.

Have you got a Bible in your house? Have a look at the stories in there and see if you can notice where people pray.

In a den of lions! (Daniel) Inside a giant fish! (Jonah) In a garden or on top of a mountain (Jesus)

In a house (the disciples), in a palace (Nehemiah), on a ship and by the seashore (Paul).

We can pray ANYWHERE

and we can talk to God 

about ANYTHING!

The Bible says

Never stop praying.

1 Thessalonians 5 : 17

Activity

We can make a prayer poster today. You can use a big bit of paper or card as your background and cut out pictures, draw pictures or write words on it about anything you want to talk to God about. 

You could make your own prayer poster and put it up in your room. You could add to it over the summer as you talk to God about all sorts of things. 

or

You could make a family prayer poster  and put it up where everyone can see it and you can add things to it together and then pray about those things together too.

Prayer

Did you receive your "101 ways to start a conversation with God" in the post? 

If you didn't, you can download it here

Why not try a new idea on the poster every day in the summer holidays?

Which one will you try today?

We've got a fun song today about prayer. What do you think the actions would look like?

We hope you have joining in with this song.

Thanks for joining in today and we hope you get closer to God over the summer as you explore prayer. Keep chatting to God, He wants to hear from you.

We hope you have a fantastic summer with lots of fun and time to rest too. 

We hope to see you at Christchurch in September.