“I have just had the most amazing week at Bishop Luffa secondary school here in Chichester” writes Carla Harding.  “As part of their arts festival the Religious Education department invited a team from our church to set up a lunchtime creative prayer zone for students.  It was amazing to get such an invitation and great to return to the school where we set up a prayer space a few years ago.  After much short-notice preparation and frantic trips to pic up materials, we arrived last Monday morning to set up the Guildford Boiler Room’s loaned caravan and many outdoor prayer zones.

The prayer activities we set up included places to express yourself with paint, meditations to listen to, a place to write any question you want to ask God, somewhere to tie a pink piece of material onto a large net whilst offering up a prayer for someone you know, a cross with holes in where people could write their petitions and put them inside, videos, card making and much, much more.  There’s something about utilising art, media and activities in prayer that opens up new possibilities and languages of expression…

For most students I think this was a fun place to whittle away a lunchtime, for some it seemed to be somewhere they could be honest and talk to God about the things on their mind.  It was such an honour to be involved in it and we received such a warm welcome from the staff at the school.”

For more information about prayer spaces in schools take a look at the Schools and Youth section of the website or contact us at schools@24-7prayer.com. Also you can click across to http://www.prayerspacesinschools.com and register for news of the website launch.