7 Ways to Pray for our Churches who are Serving with YouthWorks

 

With the start of YouthWorks Summer 2017 just around the corner, we have much to look forward to. Please join us all month long in praying for all that God will do.

 

This week, pray for our churches as they prepare to serve with YouthWorks this summer. Here are 7 specific ways you can pray for our churches:

 

1. Pray for humble hearts. Pray that students and leaders would enter communities placing the needs of the community above their own needs.

 

2. Pray for steadfast hands. Pray that students and leaders would approach each opportunity to serve with a committed and diligent spirit.

 

3. Pray for open eyes. Pray that our students and leaders would see where God is at work within communities during the week as well as throughout the year.

 

4. Pray for listening ears. Pray that our students and leaders would be open to new and challenging perspectives from community leaders and service partners.

 

5. Pray for transformed minds. Pray that students’ and leaders’ minds would be transformed in the way they understand God’s love for them and the ways that they’re called to love others.

 

6. Pray for swift feet. Pray that our students and leaders are eager to enter into our communities and serve wherever they’re needed.

 

7. Pray for encouraging tongues. Pray that students and leaders would speak words of encouragement to each other as the weeks gets long and participants get tired.

 

You can see how you can pray for communities here and YouthWorks here.

 

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Bobby Walerius is a Senior Trip Consultant at YouthWorks and has been serving with us since 2014. His favorite part of working at YouthWorks is hearing stories from the Trip Leaders about the ways they see God moving in and through their students and then sharing those stories with churches new to YouthWorks.