Thanks for the idea, Ken! Our church's ministry coordinator encouraged me to follow up and share the name and some info about our youth prayer partner ministry (in case anybody needs ideas for names or guidelines for establishing a prayer partner ministry). We decided to go with Prayerforce since it was a name the youth created and really liked. Here is a link to the logo that was created specifically for this ministry: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_yPhBc6anA1o/TTeFYyTz6LI/AAAAAAAACi4/e5gupb0qysk/s800/prayerforce.png
To get adults to join we made a request from the pulpit on a Sunday a.m., used bulletin announcements and e-mail reminders and finally personally asked individuals (when we realized we were only halfway there). Each adult receives a card that includes information about their youth partner (grade, school, hobbies, cell #, and address) to make it easier to be in contact with them and to pray for them, a reminder list of what being a Prayerforce partner entails, and a picture of their youth. We also included a reminder about the safe church policy so adults are not meeting with youth individually. (All of the information fit on a small enough piece of paper so it could be pasted onto the back of each youth's pix.)
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Thanks for the idea, Ken! Our church's ministry coordinator encouraged me to follow up and share the name and some info about our youth prayer partner ministry (in case anybody needs ideas for names or guidelines for establishing a prayer partner ministry). We decided to go with Prayerforce since it was a name the youth created and really liked. Here is a link to the logo that was created specifically for this ministry: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_yPhBc6anA1o/TTeFYyTz6LI/AAAAAAAACi4/e5gupb0qysk/s800/prayerforce.png
To get adults to join we made a request from the pulpit on a Sunday a.m., used bulletin announcements and e-mail reminders and finally personally asked individuals (when we realized we were only halfway there). Each adult receives a card that includes information about their youth partner (grade, school, hobbies, cell #, and address) to make it easier to be in contact with them and to pray for them, a reminder list of what being a Prayerforce partner entails, and a picture of their youth. We also included a reminder about the safe church policy so adults are not meeting with youth individually. (All of the information fit on a small enough piece of paper so it could be pasted onto the back of each youth's pix.)