A chance to pray for our schools

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Dear Pastors,

Schools are begining to reopen. Join us for the Prayer Walk on the August 22-23 (Saturday or Sunday or both) at your Local Elementary, Middle and High School.

The idea is not a formal meeting, we want to keep it simple. This is a gathering of the Body of Christ to pray for our Students, Teacher, Administration and School through out your community. Please encourage your church to go when they want on either day (or both) and pray on the Campuses. If the Campus is locked down then they can pray outside or around the parameter. They can gather with friends or fellow parents from their own school or area. You know the needs - drugs, pregnancy, depression, school failure rates, displaced students, racial problems, alcohol, violence, secularism, sex, parent divorce, broken families, over-crowed classrooms, budget cuts, loss of teachers, physical, mental and spiritual problems. As most of you know I now teach High School, so I can tell you first hand the problems and attacks are very real.

I am asking you as one of the Shepherds of your community to muster your church this next Sunday (August 16th) to go and pray for our schools and children on August 22-23 - maybe you could connect with other Pastors and churches in your area. Ask them all to get their Christian family, students, friends and fellow parents of students from their own school, to go and pray. If they cannot physically go to a school, they can pray at home or gather in your church. But please pray.

Some of the greatest enemies of mankind in the last 10 years - Stalin Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Hussien - understood Education was the key to impacting a nation. Have we forgotten the lessons of History so soon?

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6).

The greatest weapon and gift God has given us is Prayer - communication, fellowship, communion with God, the Creator of the Universe. Let us use prayer to glorify God, as we change our Schools and community. Please join us as we pray on August 22-23 for our Children.

John Neill
Prayer Shield Ministries
619-248-6302
john@prayershield.com
www.prayershield.com

"Prayer Shield is a Christ centered, non denominational, ministry dedicated to providing Biblical prayer for Pastors and Ministry Leaders and establishing prayer for Pastors in the local church."