A PRAYER ‘POSADA’: ROUND THE
WORLD IN NINE DAYS!
Organise this activity among the families in your
church, and encourage each group to include at
least one family they are friends with who aren’t
members of the church.
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You will need: a ‘posada box’ (a nicely decorated
shoebox or similar); a globe (a real one or a
printed picture).
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Choose a country. Draw or print the flag from this
country. On the back, write the name of the country,
the word for ‘hello’ in the language of this country
and your prayer for this country.
You and your family pray for this country and put the
flag in the box before passing it on to the next family
on the list. This family will also pray for that country
and then add another flag for a country they have
chosen. They then take it to the next family, who
pray for the countries in the box and their own before
taking it to the next family.
So that everyone can have a chance to pray for more
than one country, once you have got to the end of
your list, you could send it around again, perhaps in
reverse order.
After nine days, all the families can meet up.
Take some food to share from the countries your
family chose. It doesn’t need to be a big cooked meal,
though it could be if you wanted it to be! It could
be as simple as French bread, Italian pizza, Indian
poppadoms or pakora, or Mexican tortilla chips and
salsa. Spend time together enjoying the food and
fellowship. Each family takes home some of the
prayer flags to continue praying.