Fantastic Photos from Child Friendly Prayer Room, FinlandCarla Harding - 5 Feb 2010

“We had such a good time decorating that Prayer Room, it was held in a room dedicated to prayer in premises of small local children's day care centre.”  Writes Ella, a Prayer Room co-ordinator in Finland.  “It's a Christian place but most families are not believers, and yet want their children to have Christian education. We decorated the place on Thursday, had an opportunity for kids to come visit on Friday and then held 24-1 from Friday to Saturday… We had only a small group of people but for many of them the Prayer Room was dream come true as it was their first of a kind. Many who where in the Prayer Room had booked only one hour's slot to begin with and then found that it wasn't enough. Now they have already set a date for next month.”

I love how Ella and her team have designed the Prayer Room with Children in mind...

Virpi, a worker at the kindergarten shares more:

"After having had the first 24-1 at the kindergarten, we started using the Prayer Room with the children. We came in to the Prayer Room in small groups of three children at the time. We discussed with them about what prayer is and then we got to know what interesting things there were in the Prayer Room. Next the kids drew their own prayers which they could post on the wall. We also tried different ways to pray creatively: we danced, jumped, did somersaults (or rolly pollys :) which ever ways kids came up with! It was so much fun! This was good way to start praying with children and to learn more about prayer."  

Many people around the world are looking to include all ages in prayer; 4 – 14 year olds are especially seeking God in Finland, India and the UK. 24-7 is looking to encourage children in prayer in 2010 – join Ella and be a key part of empowering a generation in prayer.

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