Boy teaches brother to pray

For ten years I worked as a teacher/occupational therapist in the Virginia Beach City Schools in America. I saw the violence: I heard those shots. I walked through those metal detectors.

I watched the moral decline in the schools, reflecting that of American society, after prayer was taken out of the schools in 1962, and the Ten Commandments in 1980. When I returned to Australia in 1999, I found the situation was not much better here.

God said to put prayer back in the schools. How?

Through the front door—the kids.

We want to see a Kidspray Club for every school across Australia and in schools around the world.

How do we reach the kids? In Australia, we can reach them through RE (Religious Education) and Scripture Union, but there are many restrictions that apply within the confines of school walls and, sadly, often the church.

So I believe the best way to equip kids to pray is through a local Kidspray Club, which can work alongside the church. Your church can sponsor a Kidspray Club, and send your children’s workers to a training seminar or even sponsor one.

We will teach you how to do it. Read more about the history of Kidspray Clubs.

Prayer Works

Ivy was two. Her grandpa had had an operation on his eyes but two months after the operation; there was still no improvement.

One day he came to Ivy’s house to see her Mum, but he was discouraged. He was leaving the house, taking his low spirits with him, when Ivy ran after him. “Grandpa! Grandpa! Wait! I have to do something!” she hollered, running down the sidewalk.

Grandpa patiently bent down and said, “What do you have to do, Ivy?”

“I have to kiss your eyes!” she replied, and with that, she removed his glasses, kissed each of his eyes and said, “Jesus!” Then she put his glasses back on and ran back into the house to play.

Within a week Grandpa’s eyes were totally healed and he was able to go back to work (Let the Children, page 163).

Mary Had A Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb

His fleece was white as snow

And everywhere that Mary went

The Lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school one day,

‘Twas even in the rules.

It made the children laugh and play

To have a Lamb at school.

And then the rules all changed one day,

Illegal it became

To bring the Lamb of God to school,

Or even speak his Name.

Every day got worse and worse

And days turned into years.

Instead of hearing children laugh,

We heard the shots and tears.

What must we do to stop the crime

That’s in our schools today?

Let’s let the Lamb come back to school,

And teach our kids to pray!

Author Unknown