Prayer Card Games

One children’s ministry team focuses on missions and prayer for unreached people groups by playing games! These games get kids interacting with the information on the prayer cards and then give them an opportunity to pray for the unreached people groups. Click here to see the games!

Click here for prayer cards.

• Make Matches
• Where Are They?
• Prayer Card Bingo
• Who’s Like Me?
• Blind Match
• Go Fish
• People Group UNO
• Round the World

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Following a recent International Mission Board's missions theme, "Are We There Yet?", the First Baptist Church of San Antonio created a unique display in their foyer to raise the awareness of missions and the needs of unreached people groups to hear the Gospel.

307 prayer cards from the Joshua Project website covered the display. These prayer cards represented many of the largest unreached people groups.

Within 3 weeks, all 307 cards were taken by people desiring to lift up these neediest unreached people groups in prayer. They also are a great resource for personal devotions or as discussion starters around the dinner table or for small groups. This project helped raise the mission awareness of the church.

Associate Pastor Larry Soape says the church is already thinking about next year's display and how to encourage people to engage with the unreached.

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The International Orality Network Conference did something to help others to see unreached people in a different way.

To help conference participants visualize the vastness of LOSTNESS that is across the globe, they downloaded prayer cards from the Joshua Project site, printed and assembled them to suspend from the ceiling of the silo that was to be used for the prayer garden. The entire room was filled floor to ceiling with the prayer cards on strings!

As the conference participants came into the room, they had to work their way through the people -literally moving through them to get through the prayer garden. Some participants commented: "How moving it was to pass through the masses" and "For the first time I understood and saw first-hand the peoples of the world who need the Gospel."

When one participant got home from the conference, the Lord impressed her to ask at her church to do something similar. In their Prayer Chapel they have two small alcoves that really been used just for storage. They set up an area to help others how to understand and pray for the unreached.

In the drawers of two dressers below "the curtain" they printed out "Praying for the Unreached" from Joy Dawson from the YWAM Frontiers website and put it in a booklet along with a signup for people to adopt a people group in prayer. A large map was placed in one of the drawers with prayer info for each strategic area of the globe. They used a prayer guide from Ethne to Ethne, "Ethne Region Prayer Guide Posters", printing each one as a page for the book.

Many groups are now coming back and using the prayer chapel to pray together for unreached people groups in a whole new way. They have had lots of activity and positive feedback.

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The Children's Department of the First Baptist Church of Eunice, Louisiana came up with a unique seasonal idea to promote awareness of the largest 100 unreached people groups.

Their youth minister printed out information and a picture for each of 100 unreached people groups, and then the children created ornaments (one for each group) to hang on a Christmas tree at the church.

They asked each family in church to take an ornament from the tree and pray for that people group during the Christmas season. All the ornaments were gone by the end of services!

Got Ideas?

How is your church highlighting the need of the unreached peoples around the world? We would love to hear your ideas and suggestions and post them here with photos for others to use. Please contact us. To visit our prayer cards page, click here. Other free resources are available on the download page.