At Portland Adventist Academy, many students are going the extra mile in living out their faith through prayer. This school year began with a meaningful opportunity for students and staff to come together in prayer.
Thanks to Gabby Hamilton, PAA student association spiritual vice president, students and staff were invited to participate in a prayer walk around the entire school block. As they walked, participants prayed for one another, the students and staff at PAA, families, local neighbors and businesses, as well as the city, national leaders and the nation. It was a powerful experience that helped set the spiritual tone for the school year.
In addition, the importance of prayer, prayer requests and a community that prays has been spotlighted. Before PAA’s first of three annual Weeks of Worship, campus ministries created a prayer locker.
The prayer locker has been placed in a visible location in the school’s main hall. Students are invited to write and drop in prayer requests and praises. Each week, a group of prayer-warrior students and staff gather to pray for each request placed inside.
Because the locker is accessible to the broader school community, it has also become a place where visitors to PAA leave their own prayer requests and notes of praise.
It has been encouraging to see students come together in this way, sharing their praises and concerns, discussing them with one another and then breaking into small groups to pray. These regular moments of intentional prayer are helping to strengthen a supportive spiritual community where students actively live out their faith and lift one another up.
Each week, a group of prayer-warrior students and staff gather to pray for each request placed inside the prayer locker.
