Holidays and Short Weeks

Is your Moms in Touch prayer time just another scheduled item in your week or do you recognize the gift God has given us through Jesus to pray for our children and schools?

Let's not make our MITI prayers a "meeting" that must be scratched when school is not in session. Pick up a previous Prayer Sheet or print one of the 52 filled in sheets from the Leaders Corner page at www.MomsinTouch.org to use in your personal quiet time. A list of Attributes of God is also available at the Leaders Corner page.

Who knows? You may get so excited about using the 4-steps of prayer alone that you will want to lead the next MITI Prayer time for your group!

Evelyn Christenson in What Happens When Women Pray says private prayer is "an indicator of the kind of prayer group participant we really are, for it is our private praying that determines the quality and validity of our public praying."  

A note from personal experience: praying out loud when you are alone will make praying in a group more natural for you. 

Don't skip praying for our children and schools just because of holidays or short school weeks. God is still at work in the lives of every student, teacher, and staff person.

Keep Praying! You are participating in the redemption of God's creation!

Do you see it?

I love to travel and see things I've read about. Several years ago I had the thrill of spending 21 days in nine European countries. Fascinating! Windmills in Holland. Austria's Swiss Alps - the hills really are alive with the sound of music. Quaint German villages. Magnificent castles. Buckingham Palace and London's double decker buses. The Arc de Triumph, the Eiffel Tower, and the original Mona Lisa.

Did you know that one of the significant elements of the Mona Lisa is the landscape background? I didn't until after I visited the Louvre. I saw her famous smile but I hardly noticed the background.

I wonder sometimes if we notice the big picture of what God is doing with Moms in Touch. Each prayer group is like the smile of Mona Lisa but there is a background that is of far greater significance. 

The vision of Moms in Touch is that every school in the world will be covered with prayer. 

Picture it. Your child travels to Europe with a group of college friends. How many on the plane are the same age? Did they have moms praying for them?

Or maybe your family has to transfer to a new city during your daughter's junior year of high school. What will she face at this school? Was anyone praying for that school?

It's easy to see the temporary struggles our children encounter from day to day. I challenge myself and you to look closer. If you don't already, please include the vision of Moms in Touch in your weekly prayer time. Let's watch and see every school (including home schools) in the world be covered with prayer.

Last year, MITI groups in the Olentangy school district each adopted an uncovered "sister" school within the district. How exciting it is to see a new group start up when you've been praying for that to happen!

A Worthington group is praying for an inner city (Columbus) school as their adopted school. 

What school will you adopt until you see God bring forth moms to cover it in prayer?