Prayer Stations provide the opportunity for students to encounter God in a new and different way. Through different experiences and prompts they are encouraged to think, to pray and to respond.
Prayer Stations are for your group, but they do not only have to be done at your onsite location. With a little planning and clever packing you can take prayer stations with you for a week of camp or on a mission trip.
Here are some prayer stations created for a recent College U.M. ARMY mission trip. The theme of the week was OBEY. We did these stations as one of our evening activities.
The first station is posted below. I’ll share additional stations in the coming weeks.
For more prayer station ideas be sure to check out:
11 Good Friday Prayer Stations
Station 1 – Cards of Joy
Items Needed –
Mailbox
Small Cards and Envelopes
Stamps / Stickers
Pens / Markers
Text:
Cards of Joy –
No matter what, you can never share enough joy and encouragement. Look around – there are envelopes with each person’s name involved here this week. Choose a name, grab their envelope and a blank card. Then write or draw a note to share the enjoy of the Lord with them. Feel free to use the stamps and markers for inspiration. When you are done place the card in the envelope then drop in the mailbox. Your joy will be delivered ASAP.
Thoughts –
You could easily do this without putting a name on each envelope. Doing so ensures that everyone will get a card and there will not be some who get more than others.
Possible Verses –
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:11
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. – Hebrews 10:24-25
