Praying Toward a Harvest Through VBS

The following is excerpted from Church Health Matters, a regular publication included in the Baptist & Reflector, the Tennessee Baptist State Newspaper. To see the entire publication, which concerns VBS, go here.



During Pre-VBS Preparations:

• Pray for people who will come to know Christ during VBS. Pray that God will prepare their hearts to hear about Jesus. Pray for those who will share the gospel that the Lord would provide divine appointments.


• Pray for parents of children that will be attending VBS that God will send laborers into their lives and that the Lord would use the children as laborers in lost parent’s lives.


• Pray for those who teach that they may have the gift of discernment as they minister to VBS participants.


• Pray for open doors of “utterances” as those in the community are invited.


• Pray for each leader and volunteer to be unafraid and unashamed to share the gospel. Pray for boldness.


• Pray for the enemy to be defeated in the lives of workers, parents and children.


• Pray for all the leaders who are preparing rooms, making final lesson preparations and getting organized at home. Pray for them to be inspired in ways that prepares hearts for the gospel.

During VBS:

• Pray that compassion would fill the heart of every laborer.


• Pray for the laborer to share and serve as though he/she was doing it for the Lord.


• Pray that the gospel would be proclaimed boldly, compassionately and clearly.


• Pray those who attend that are hungry for love and affirmation would find it not just from the VBS workers but in Jesus.


• Pray that when the ABC’s of becoming a Christian are presented that it would be done so clearly and powered by the Holy Spirit and covered by prayer.


• Pray for those who have not responded to the Holy Spirit’s call. Pray for others who will be touched by the Holy Spirit.


• Pray that Christians will have a desire and confidence to share the good news.


• Pray that VBS participants would become connected to the church for long term discipleship.


• Pray for Family Night and that unchurched families that will come. Pray for them to feel welcomed, loved and most of all come to know the Lord as their Lord and Savior.

After VBS:

• Pray that people who have accepted Christ as Savior can be brought into the fellowship of your church (or another church) and begin growing in Christ likeness.


• Pray that VBS prospects and their families will come to Sunday School and worship.


• Pray that the church will begin to help meet needs discovered during VBS.


• Pray that what was learned during VBS will make a difference in the lives of those who participated. Pray that those who worked in VBS will sense God’s pleasure and satisfaction with their efforts.


• Pray that those who conduct follow-up on those who participated may have open doors into the lives of the whole family.