This Week in NewLife Kids

Good News - Elementary

I Will Pray

This Week’s Bible Verse: “I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy.” Psalm 116:1 (NLT)

This Week’s Main Point: I Will Pray!

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE: Jesus Prays in the Garden of Gathsemane Mark 14:32-42

Family Activity:
Gather your family together and remind them that God wants us to pray to Him. One way we can do that is to pray for each other. Have family members share one request with the group. Write each request on a card. Give each family member a card from another family member and encourage everyone to pray for that person’s request through the week. Plan at least one family prayer time when you all gather and each person uses the card to pray for his or her assigned person’s request. Check on family members throughout the week and make sure that they are spending a little time each day praying. Meet up again at the end of the week and talk about how it felt to have someone praying for you and how it felt to pray for someone else. See if any of the prayers were answered and repeat each week.

Good News Jr. Pre-K & Toddlers

Main Point: I Will Pray!

Bible Story: Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane - Mark 14:32-42 (NLT)

Bible Verse: “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16 (NLT)

Family Activity - Prayer Cube
Use the attached paper and make a cube. Gather your family together as ask each person to tell you something about prayer. They might tell you that prayer is talking to God or that you can pray about anything. Once every person has told what prayer is, pull out the cube. Each person can take a turn and roll the cube. Use the following key to guide your discussion.
Cube Key:
• Anywhere: Where can you pray? (At home. In the car. At the park. At school. At the restaurant.)
• Anytime: When can you pray? (Bedtime. At meals. When I’m sad. When I’m happy. When I need a friend. When I feel scared. When I have a bad dream.)
• Anything: What can you pray about? (My friends. My family.
Thankfulness. When I feel sad, happy, or scared.)

After everyone has rolled the cube, you can pray and ask God to help you remember to pray to Him anywhere, anytime, and about anything.