SUMMER 2017 Summer 2017 • $8.95 Journal of Children, Youth & Family Ministry What’s Prayer? 1 BUILD KITS OF CARE! Assemble School Kits with your youth group or Vacation Bible School for children living in poverty around the world. Here’s what you’ll need to make the kits: 1 4 1 1 1 1 5 5 1 For complete project instructions, visit BuildKitsofCare.org/connect! #kitsofcare Members of New Hope Lutheran Church in Columbia,2 Md., assemble School Kits. SUMMER 2017 PUBLICATION INFORMATION Published by: CONTENTS ELCA Youth Ministry Network www.elcaymnet.org Welcome! 4 Todd Buegler Lord, Teach Us to Pray 5 Marilyn Sharpe Prayer Languages—An Interview with Bill and Carolyn Kees 8 Bunmi Ishola Prayer in Real (Lutheran) Life 10 Christopher Zumski Finke Interview with Janelle Hooper 12 Bunmi Ishola Prayer, Youth and Living a Vowed Life as a Benedictine Sister in 2017 14 Christopher Zumski Finke Subscription Information: call 866-ELCANET (352-2638) How Do You Teach Prayer to Young People? 16 or visit: Answers from the ELCA Youth Ministry Facebook Group www.elcaymnet.org
[email protected] Corporate Prayer 18 George Baum Design and Layout: Michael Sladek Impression Media Group Calendar of Events 23 www.impressionmediagroup.com Managing Editor: UPCOMING CONNECT ISSUE THEMES: Erin Gibbons Scripture, Practice & Why Nobody Wants To Do Bible Study Anymore (Fall ‘17) Connect Editorial Board: Todd Buegler, Nate Frambach, Erin Gibbons, Dawn Rundman, ELCA YOUTH MINISTRY NETWORK BOARD Michael Sladek Becky Cole: Board Member Dr. Jeremy Myers, AIM: Board Member Rev. Regina Goodrich: Board Member Tom Schwolert: Board Chairperson Kinda Makini: Board Member Erik Ullestad: Board Member Cover Photo: Michael Sladek Sue Megrund: Board Member Rev.