The first activation you’ll want to take your students through is a simple activation where you’ll have the student practice approaching each other to offer to pray for each other. It’s a simple role-playing exercise that actually helps a lot more than you might think! It introduces the model you’ve shown the students and is a good opportunity for them to practice it in a non-threatening situation.

There are three basic types of approaches you’ll want to introduce to the students:

Visible Need – A need for prayer that you can see directly (could be physical issue, but doesn’t have to be).
Word of Knowledge – God gives a word of knowledge that you use to create the encounter.
Nothing Specific – A person you want to pray for but you don’t have a visible need or a word of knowledge to launch off of.

Once you’ve begun the relational interaction with one of these approaches, you want to get a little bit of simple information from the person while working on building relational trust. Once you’ve gathered a little bit of information (just enough to pray specifically), you’ll want to transition to prayer. When I’m asking to pray for someone, I like to:

Keep it short & simple. Base off the relational connection you’ve built and the fact that you want to help them.
I don’t like to mention my church unless the person I’m interacting with asks. If you bring it up you immediately begin to look like a salesman, which is definitely not the message you want to send.
I generally don’t mention God wanting to heal them unless I get a sense that I should. This is simply to avoid any potential baggage the person may have in their history.

You’ll want to model the approach and then have the students partner up and practice approaching each other and eventually transitioning to prayer. Have them practice with each other for each of these approaches.

Download our power evangelism approach cards to use for this activation.