Over 1400 politicians, police and principals met last week at The Sydney Convention Centre to spend a few hours to pray. One of the things we prayed for were our schools and young people.
Here is the prayer that we were led by a Headmaster of a Sydney School:
"Heavenly Father, We bring before you this morning the young people, students of schools, colleges and universities studying in our city. We pray for these educational institutions within our CBD and its environs.
We confess that as Christians in the city we have thought too little in the past about the power of your Gospel through these entities.
We pray for a spirit to hear, for an effective apologetic outreach to dissolve blockers to faith, for continued permission for Christian groups to operate, particularly SRE (‘Scripture’) in government schools and Christian groups on university campuses.
We pray for CRU groups in independent schools to be well supported and well attended. We pray for Christian camps for and through schools to be vibrant mechanisms for the extension of the Christian faith amongst our young people.
We ask these things in Jesus name. Amen."
It is encouraging that people from all walks of life for our schools, our community and our students. Let me encourage all of us to slow down and pray for our school.
Stuart Tye
Chaplain