Persecuted Church, Prayer, and Worship Night
1 July 2009
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Last week for our youth ministry we did a persecuted church, prayer, and worship night. It was awesome!
Here’s what we did so that I can share the idea with you:
- We estimated the size of the group that was showing up and picked a small room to squeeze everyone in close together.
- We had candles for the students to hold and a sheet of paper with songs on it for them to follow.
- We opened in prayer, watched a voice of the martyrs film about Christians being hurt for their faith and how they have to have secret meetings in order to worship Jesus.
- Music was led with an acoustic guitar (unplugged).
Things to work on:
- Schedule out every minute – make sure that you have an order that you are following and think through the transitions that you want to take place for example: from praying to singing, to watching a video clip, testimony or whatever you line up.
- Have the music sheets ready and printed up for students to follow along. I thought it was much more effective not using a projector for the words of the songs for this particular event.
- Run through the activity before hand with the person leading the worship and all those involved in the leadership to see if everything is transitioning smoothly.
- Pray that God would work on hearts. Pray that the Lord would use the event to spur students to a deeper commitment to Him, getting involved in missions, or simply praying more for the Christians that don’t have the freedom that we do in the united states.
Go here for a sample of a concert of prayer outline.
Has anyone done something like this? How has it worked for your youth ministry? What are some other variations?
I’ve worked with youth for a few years now, but never had the chance to really do something like this. The closest I’ve come is playing the game Persecution at a camp; it provided something akin to the experience, at least metaphorically, but I’m sure there was a lot that was “lost in translation,” so to speak.
What kind of a response did you get from the kids? It’s hard to tell sometimes, but it is the greatest thing when you can move them into thinking from the perspective of the original saints or persecuted church today.
wow! this is really an awesome idea and it just gave me another idea. thanks. see our church is an assemblies of god church so missions is BIG. for our youth Speed the light is huge also.so thanks we will do this to show youth what are monies are going to. God Bless
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