Education Sunday: Learning and Serving
Many churches use Education Sunday - this year on Sunday 5 February - as a day to focus on schools and to pray for them. The theme for 2012 is Learning and Serving. You can download the leaflet here and there are many other resources available on the Education Sunday website. Why not use some of them as a prayer focus for your Pray for Schools group, or encourage your church to be involved?
That’s the vision of Pray for Schools: to mobilise Christians to support their school communities through prayer.
You can do this through:
- Starting a group to pray regularly for your local school
- Having schools prayer as a focus for your church
- Praying as an individual for a school near you
Find out more
Please note:
We are experiencing technical problems with the Pray for Schools website. They will be fixed as soon as possible, in the meantime, if you have any questions about how to pray for schools, please contact us
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Pray for Schools Regions
Pray for Schools has volunteer coordinators who oversee a region, liaise with prayer groups and produce newsletters. To find out more about a region and contact the coordinator, click on the links below:
England Coordinator: Joanne Appleton
Wales Coordinator: Claire Wall
Scotland Coordinator: Elizabeth McDowell (Prayer Coordinator for SU Scotland)
N.Ireland Currently vacant
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Who can pray?
Anyone can pray!
Individuals and groups of parents, teachers, governors or local church members get together and pray weekly, monthly or termly for one or more schools. We have guidelines available to help you get started. You can also contact us to find out what schools in your area are being prayed for and to be put in touch. You can get together with other groups or churches to organise a Pray for Schools event
Churches could include regular prayer for schools during their services. At the beginning of the academic year, why not hold a Back to School Sunday to commission Christian pupils and school staff as they return to school. Education Sunday each January also provides an opportunity to highlight the needs of schools in your area.
There are also lots of resources for young people wanting to pray for their school.
If you let us know that you are praying, or that you want to begin, then we may be able to put you in touch with others on our database who are in your area and praying too. We’ll also keep you up to date with what’s happening in Pray for Schools with our newsletter three times a year.
Many churches use Education Sunday – this year on Sunday 5 February – as a day to focus on schools and to pray for them. The theme for 2012 is Learning and Serving.
You can download the leaflet here and there are many other resources available on the Education Sunday website. Why not use some of them as a prayer focus for your Pray for Schools group, or encourage your church to be involved?
