Prayer Walk: I am looking for ideas for organizing a prayer walk at my local high School.?

Answer 1

I am not sure how you would do it, but I wanted to tell you that I think it is a wonderful idea. Congratulations on not being afraid to share your faith...........

Answer 2

Prayer Walk Ideas

Answer 3

Don't just read the bible, recreate it!

Organize a "Parting of the Red Sea" prayer walk. Find a local retention pond behind a Super Wal-Mart and lead your people to the Promised Land.

Hallelujah!

Answer 4

Practicalities of Prayer-Walking

1. Begin with worship

Dedicate yourself and the next few hours to God and concentrate on Him. Read a passage from the Bible, to focus your attention on what you are about to do and remind yourself why you are doing it. Be quiet before God for a while and listen to Him just before you go out in order to tune yourself in to His voice.

2. Relationships within the team of prayer-walkers

Make sure everyone in your team gets to know each other properly before you begin, so that you are all familiar and comfortable with each other. Most importantly, make sure effective prayer is not being compromised by disagreements and annoyances between members of the team.

3. Organising the walk

Divide into groups of 2 or 3, so there are enough in a group to support each other (remember that prayer is fortified by agreement), but not too many so that some people are unable to hear or participate properly. Make sure that confident or experienced prayer-walkers are split up between the groups. Decide on a route that will cover all the areas that you feel need prayer, for whatever reason. Different groups can walk in different directions and may take longer over certain parts than others. Give enough structure that groups do not get lost, but not so much that excessive time is taken over figuring out directions. Decide how much spontaneity you want to allow groups to have, dependant on how well they know the area.

* How long are you going to spend? Make sure that all the groups know when they should return, but be flexible in the timing. One or two hours is usually what is recommended initially.

* What specifically are you praying about? Most prayer walks combine a balance of three elements, whatever the specific issue. These are worship; spiritual warfare and creating a welcome for Christ. Many walks concentrate on an issue e.g. praying for world debt around the Japanese embassy (as Jubilee 2000 has done); or praying for God's presence in a particular area, such as a university campus. Some people take out a small Bible and read out passages as they feel relevant to a particular situation.

Most importantly, make sure that you take time to define the purpose of the prayer walk beforehand. What is it you want God to achieve in that place?

Potential Problems

* Be careful that the prayer-walking itself does not distract you from Jesus. The essence of doing this is to walk, wanting Christ to come into the area you are walking in.

* Spiritual warfare. Most prayer-walkers recognise that the evil that exists in their environment will resist our prayer as we take them out. However natural communication with God should be, it may become harder, requiring persistence and patience.

* Although many people soon find this is something that comes naturally, at first, the idea of walking along, talking to God in small groups may be very strange and difficult. But the most amazing thing about prayer is that we learn to pray actually by praying, and so it will become easier with persistence.

And above all don't listen to the "you better not go to a public school" people, which I will stop there because that is a debate for another topic.

Answer 5

What's a prayer walk?

Is your local high school a public high school?

Answer 6

Try making flyers or announcements about it, an maybe let there be prizes or gift cards ect to get more people to come out, have people from the local churches and the students family come out to it too, just be sure to get the world out to everyone to they know about it. Maybe even set up a meeting for anyone interested in helping out. Hope that helps a lil bit

Answer 7

I think religion should not be involved in school. Unless it's one of those goody goody religious private schools, then you can go insane with your prayer. But I wouldn't want a kooky prayer walk involved in my public school.

Answer 8

Better be a private high school. If not, I'll have the ACLU on you in 3 seconds tops.

Answer 9

I think the help you are looking for you can find on this link.

http://www.yahweh.com/booklets/Prayers/prayers.htm

Answer 10

If your high school is public, they won't allow it. If it's not, then find a park somewhere, find who runs it, and ask it if you can use it for a day or two.