My Heart Hurts

Yesterday our Celebration lesson focused on the story of the stoning of Stephen. We used it to address kids who were being picked on, kids who were picking on others, and kids who were just standing by and not helping those being mistreated. During our prayer time I stressed that kids only come to pray with an adult if they fell into one of those three categories. My heart broke as 20-25 kids came forward to pray with someone. Some were being made fun of at school, some realized they were being mean to other people, some wanted to pray for the bully in their class. I know that kids being mean to each other is a sad part of kid culture, but it just broke my heart how many kids were hurting. Let's pray for them this week!