Overall Mission: To establish a Kidspray Club (KPC) for every school in Australia and to start clubs overseas as opportunities arise
To restore children to their rightful place in the body of Christ, ministering in the power of the Spirit beside their parents and other adults. There is no junior Holy Spirit.

What is a Kidspray Club?

A Kidspray Club is similar to a Bible Club, but the emphasis is on teaching kids to pray and on equipping them to do the works of Jesus. A personal experience of Jesus Christ as Saviour is a prerequisite to the above, so we emphasize evangelism.

A weekly Kidspray Club is usually held after school in the vicinity of the local primary school, and unchurched kids are encouraged to come. It meets for a minimum of one hour.

The Kidspray Club is not intended to replace Sunday School or Children’s Church. Nor is the Club for every Christian child. It is designed for those committed children who are hungry for God and want to grow spiritually. It is a discipling program.

To become a Kidspray club co-ordinator, interested persons are required to complete a 20-hour equipping seminar (which can also be completed online) and meet other requirements. Mature Christian teenagers are also encouraged to apply.

Ministry Activities

1. Kidspray Clubs for Primary School Children: Establish a KPC in the neighborhood of every school in Australia. Start with indigenous kids. Work with government primary schools.

Find partners—two mature Christian adults or teens living in the school neighborhood, who have caught the vision  for KPCs, and are certified to head up a club. This includes the completion of a KPC equipping seminar.

2. KPC Equipping Seminars: Hosted by local churches, ministries, or civic groups
For club leaders, pastors, church leaders, teachers, children’s workers, Bible college students, interested adults and teens

We teach the critical need to re-establish school prayer, which was part of the Christian heritage of our nation. We stress the need  to make the discipling of children a priority, rather than entertaining them. We share how God wants to use children, has used children throughout history, and is using children around the world today.

A 20-hour week-end seminar or a correspondence course via the internet. A certificate and KPC Handbook is awarded after completion of the seminar and assignments. This certificate entitles the graduate to start an official KPC. [More Info]

3. Mentoring: of club leaders via seminars, emails, phone calls, and on-site visits

4. Resources: For purchase as listed on the website

5. A KPC International Annual Conference: for leaders, children, and parents

6. Overseas Seminars: The harvest is white, and as opportunities present, KPC seminar graduates may be invited to be part of a team to start KPC clubs in other nations.

7. The Lord’s Prayer Project: Our mission is to put a small laminated card of the Lord’s Prayer in the pocket of every school child in Australia.

8. Encouragement of the church to make opportunities for children to pray for adults, and for children to minister alongside adults

Kidspray Clubs for Primary School Children

While living in the United States, I worked as an occupational therapist in the Virginia Beach City Schools, Virginia, for ten years (1987 to 1997). During that time I observed serious moral decline in those schools, which was reflective of what was happening across American society after public prayer and the Ten Commandments were taken out of the public schools in 1962 and 1980 respectively.

When I returned to Australia in August 1999, I observed that this moral decline was also taking place in Australian schools. I developed a burden to see “prayer put back into the schools.” In one sense prayer has never been taken out of the schools. As one teacher said, “As long as there are tests, students will pray.”

But public prayer as an integral part of public education has been banned in deference to “multiculturalism,” even though Australia has a Christian constitution. In some states in Australia we have the privilege of teaching Religious Education classes. The Scripture Union, Miracle Education, chaplains, and many other organizations also work with students, so public prayer has not been completely expelled from the schools.

As an intercessor, I have attended hundreds of adult prayer meetings, but my association with the Children’s Prayer Network (from 2001) inspired me to raise up children to pray.

While researching for my book, Let the Children (2007), which features the story of the Children’s Prayer Network, I observed how God has always used children. I remember reading how Esther Ilnisky, founder of the Children’s Global Prayer Movement, asked God, “Where are the intercessors for this sore world?”

“Turn to the children,” God replied. “They will pray; they will intercede; they will cry out for the lost; they will not give up till the answer comes” (page 135). Ilnisky believes God has placed in every child a desire to pray. It is up to parents and their teachers to release and mentor that desire.

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Kidspray Clubs’ Curriculum

• God’s purpose in the creation of man
• The nature of sin
• The Gospel message: the Cross, resurrection, ascension, and second coming of Christ
• Repentance
• Conversion
• Baptism in water
• Daily Bible reading
• Daily prayer
• Fellowship with other believers
• Daily love walk and forgiveness, the fruit of the spirit
• Obedience to parents, teachers and others in authority
• The baptism of the Holy Spirit
• The authority of the believer
• Spiritual warfare
• The gifts of the spirit
• Faith
• Worship
• Prayer and intercession
• Sharing/preaching the Gospel
• Praying for the sick
• Casting out demons
• Raising the dead
• Prophecy
• Discipline and radical obedience as soldiers in God’s army
• The Great Commission