Should we take time for prayer requests in Sunday School?

Doug

The Sunday School Revolutionary offers the positives of taking prayer requests in Sunday School as well as some helpful suggestions to avoid taking too much time:

Positives

  • Class members feel like someone cares for them
  • Class leadership has the opportunity to serve through prayer
  • Praying for each other builds community

Suggestions

  • Take requests at the end of class
  • Take written, not verbal, requests
  • Send requests out by e-mail

What do you think?  Do you have any other suggestions?

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2 Responses to “Should we take time for prayer requests in Sunday School?”

  • missy Says:
    September 1st, 2008 at 3:59 am

    hi doug,
    each class could have a prayer box(shoe box for instance) beside each box have note cards and a pen. if someone has a prayer request they can write it on the card as they enter class and place it in the box. the teacher can collect these at the end of the class and then e-mail the class with the prayer requests. in order for this to work the teacher must announce to the class that all prayer requests must be in the box before class starts. hope this helps, missy

  • Jaime Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 am

    when I taught the youth class, we used a prayer journal that we passed each Sunday. Everyone wrote out their request for me to pray for during the week. Once a month we did share requests and answered-prayers out loud so the whole class could hear.

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