Almighty God,
We give you our schools and homeschools. We give you all the teachers and staff who work in them. Fill them with your understanding, patience, and wisdom. Help them to see the individual potential of each and every student. Give them strength to persevere through ever-changing requirements and help them remember their sense of call to this most important work. And we pray:
Make good your purpose for them, O Lord; your steadfast love endures forever.
Nurturing God,
We give you all the children who study in our schools and homeschools. Fill them with curiosity and courage. Help them to resist temptations and sharpen their self-control. Give them grace to forgive their failures and build upon their successes. And we pray:
Make good your purpose for them, O Lord; your steadfast love endures forever.
Gracious God,
Help us all: parents, church family and community members, to respect the work of teachers and students. Help us to appreciate their ideals and sympathize with their frustrations, that, together, all of us may look for a better world than any of us has ever known. And we pray:
Make good your purpose for us, O Lord; your steadfast love endures forever.
Sovereign God,
We pray our schools would be places of great discovery, adventure and creativity. May they be places where we love to learn and where we learn to love, places where everyone is respected and all are deeply valued.
We ask all this through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.