Last term Jack Gilbert and I launched our Tuesday, weekly prayer meetings. At our first meeting, 30 people packed out our music room, sacrificing their morning break to come before God.
At Covenant I have been blessed to be surrounded by hundreds of people from hundreds of churches and have always valued that environment. Our heart for our prayer meetings is to see students and teachers from all church backgrounds join together in prayer, and during the past few weeks, that’s exactly what we have seen!
Each week at our meetings Jack and I have a theme. Over the last weeks the themes have been; school life, families, health, passion in our walk with God and salvation of friends and family. The purpose of our themes is to bring a sense of direction to our meetings. We start each meeting with a short message from one of the students and then launch into about 15 minutes of prayer, short but sweet (and powerful)! At our last prayer meeting for the term our theme was Thanksgiving for Easter.
My heart for Covenant is to see a school that is consumed with zeal and passion for God's house, his Kingdom and his purpose. I would love to see, more then anything, Covie overflowing with young people who know their God and are 100% committed to Him and his will.
I never what to take for granted how blessed we are to be in a school that not only allows but supports students starting a prayer meeting. And I am so excited that in the midst the school's busyness, students and teachers are prepared to stop and come together and remember the Lord.
Jack and I would like to extend an invitation to all high school students and teachers to come and join us in the music room each Tuesday at recess. However close or far from God you feel you are welcome to come and check us out.
I am eager to see what God does in this coming year and beyond as we continue to prepare a place for young men and women to come before God.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
By Rachel Bennett
Year 12
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