Quick Starts for Churches

How your church can minister to public schools.

CHURCHES WHO PRAY, CARE AND SHARE MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

PRAY:

• Encourage churches to partner with a public school in close proximity to their church and identify school personnel and students for special, specific prayer. Larger congregations could select more than one school in their community.
• Pray for special events at school i.e.: See You at the Pole, Thanksgiving, Christmas, concerts, plays, National Bible Week, National Day of Prayer etc.
• Encourage churches to establish a regular (daily, weekly, monthly) time to pray for their schools, district administrators and school boards during services and prayer meetings.
• Encourage churches to develop a listing of students, parents and school personnel who attend your church in order to regularly lift them up in prayer.

CARE:

• Partner with one or more schools to provide a host of services for teachers and students.
• Host an outreach to schools such as a breakfast, lunch or tea for all school personnel.
• Assist at least one school or the entire district by providing classroom volunteers to help with bulletin boards, read to students, tutoring, grading papers, etc.
• Provide or fund appropriate assemblies for students in order to release teachers from classrooms for meetings and/or provide classroom aides.

SHARE:

• Develop Released Time Bible Education programs that would teach children scripture and pave the way to present God's Word.
• Invite teachers, administrators and school personnel to appropriate church functions where the love of Christ is shared.
• Encourage churches to provide funding for Bibles and other character building books for the school library or curricular materials to teach the Bible as Literature and character education, etc.
• Offer facilities for school events such as graduation ceremonies and/or provide members who can speak on specific topics at their local school that present a Biblical world view etc.