08/11/2026
🙏 **A Prayer for the New School Year** 🎒📚
As families throughout our communities prepare for the **2026–2027 school year**, we are grateful to be a **prayer partner with Youth for Christ Lincoln Area** and to join **Jess Brinkmeyer, Literacy Director**, in lifting up our students, families, educators, and schools in prayer.
Jess shared a beautiful prayer with their prayer partners this week, and we would like to share that same spirit of prayer with our own **Loxa church family and community.**
🙏 **Heavenly Father,**
As a new school year begins, we lift up every child, student, parent, teacher, and school staff member to You. Whether they are entering elementary school for the first time, navigating middle school, or preparing for the opportunities and pressures of high school, **go before them, Lord.**
Give our children courage as they face new classrooms, new teachers, new friendships, and new challenges. Help them feel confident in who You created them to be. Remind them that their identity is not found in grades, popularity, sports, accomplishments, or the opinions of others, but **in You**.
Protect them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Surround them with good friends and caring adults who encourage, guide, and speak truth into their lives. Give them wisdom to make good choices, strength to stand firm when they feel pressured, and compassion for those who may feel lonely, left out, or overlooked.
For our **parents and families**, give us patience, wisdom, peace, and grace. Help us know when to encourage, when to listen, when to step in, and when to allow our children to learn and grow. When worry comes, remind us that our children ultimately belong to You and that You go with them wherever they go.
Bless our **teachers, administrators, coaches, counselors, bus drivers, and every person who serves our schools** with patience, energy, wisdom, and compassion. Help them recognize the children who need a little extra encouragement and give them opportunities to make a lasting difference.
Lord, we pray for **safe schools, healthy friendships, kind hearts, and classrooms where every child feels seen and valued.**
Where there is anxiety, bring **peace**.
Where there is loneliness, bring **connection**.
Where there is fear, bring **courage**.
Where there is conflict, bring **understanding**.
Most of all, help our children grow not only academically, but also in **character, kindness, wisdom, and faith**. May they always remember that they never walk into a classroom alone because **You are with them wherever they go.**
We entrust this school year and every child beginning it into Your loving hands.
**Amen. ❤️**
📖 *“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”*
**Joshua 1:9**
A special thank you to **Jess Brinkmeyer and Youth for Christ Lincoln Area** for sharing this prayer and for the work they continue to do serving young people and families. We are thankful for the opportunity to stand alongside them as a **prayer partner**. 🙏
And as this new school year begins, we also invite **you and your family to join us at Loxa Presbyterian Church every Sunday at 10:30 AM.** ⛪
Whether you have been part of a church your entire life, haven't been in years, or are simply looking for a place to worship, grow in faith, and belong, **there is a place for you at Loxa.**
Come as you are. Bring the kids. Bring a friend. **We would love to worship with you!** ❤️
**⛪ Loxa Presbyterian Church**
**🕥 Sunday Worship | 10:30 AM**
From all of us at Loxa, may God bless our students, families, educators, and schools throughout the **2026–2027 school year!**
🙏 **How can we pray for YOU this week?**
