How about dedicating your Kids To Kids offering money, or items you have collected, with a dedication prayer during a Sunday morning worship service? You may want to seek your pastor’s help with this idea. Working with your pastor, get together and write your own prayer.

Here’s a sample to get you started:

We know we are to love one another and to give to others as we have received.

In the name of kids around the corner and across the world who are poor, hungry, homeless, abused, sick, alone, or in any kind of trouble, we the kids of (insert name of your church) and this congregation dedicate this offering out of gratefulness for God’s blessings upon our own lives and those of our families and friends.

We ask that this offering and our Kids to Kids ministry will be a blessing to others. We pray that our gifts will be messages of healing and hope in the world. We pray that as we serve and learn from our sisters and brothers in other places we come to more fully know the grace and love of Jesus. 

Amen.

 

You may want to ask members of your church to support your Kids To Kids ministry by covenanting to pray daily for your work during a week, month, or other period of time.

• You can use a piece of poster board to create a prayer covenant board that members of your church can sign to pledge their prayerful support.
• You can get signatures during the coffee hour or right after worship outside the door of your sanctuary.
• Your prayer covenant board can be placed on a church bulletin board, as a visible reminder of your ministry and need for supportive prayers.