Week of Prayer for Young People

As part of their 2021 focus on young people 11+, the Go Team are launching a focused Week of Prayer from 13th – 19th June, encouraging people across the region to join in prayer specifically for young people, their families, their schools and their colleges.

The Go Team along with Education Team colleagues would usually be involved in Pilgrim Days in June, welcoming over a thousand 10 and 11 year olds to Wells Cathedral, and so felt they wanted to turn some of that time over to prayer, and to encourage as many people as possible to join them.

As well as committing to praying together on Zoom each day, the Go Team have put together a simple resource with daily themes and prayer prompts to help churches and youth groups get involved. Church groups and individuals can download the Guide to the week of Prayer for Young People resource by following this link and follow throughout the week on social media.

Young people from around Bath & Wells will also be staging a ‘take over’ of the prayer calendar and daily prayer videos that week, giving voice to prayers for teenagers and young adults, and the issues they face growing up in the 2020s. As usual the video prayers will be posted on Facebook and Youtube each day.

Tony Cook, Go Team Leader added “Before we consider what we might be able to offer young people, post pandemic, let us first pray for this generation; hearing what God might be saying to us.”