Prayer Partner Bookmarks

Linking Parish and Children

Start the school year with this new way to build community in your congregation. Have the kids create bookmarks using 2 by 6-inch pieces of card stock. Attach one child’s photograph and write the child’s first name on one side of the bookmark. Have kids each decorate their bookmarks and write the following poem on the side opposite their photo:

Pray for Me

In what I do, in what I say

Pray for me every day.

Laminate the bookmarks so they’ll last for years.

Ask parishioners to become lifelong prayer sponsors of a child in your ministry by choosing a bookmark. Instruct them to keep the bookmark in their Bible or prayer book and to pray for that child every day until graduation. This is a great way to keep the children in the minds and hearts of the congregation.