Our Celebration Prayers - Immersion

Dear God,

Thank you for the different cultures and the way they celebrated times.  You created cultures so that people aren’t all the same.  They have knowledge about amazing and sometimes rare things.  They use creative items to celebrate different times.  Amen.  Zeta

Dear Lord,

Thanks for the world, the parents who love me, the roof I am under and the life I live.  Thanks for all my family’s celebrations.  Mattea

Dear Lord,

Thank you for the life I live, the family I have and the love I have.  Taine

Dear God,

Thank you for letting us all have a great holiday.  Thank you for all they sunshine you have given us.

Maya

Dear God,

Thank you for the world, for celebrations, Christmas, birthdays, Easter and festivals.  Thank you for special times, for family and friends.  Thank you for smiles, happiness and laughter.  Thank you for our lives. Aimee

Lord Jesus, we thank you for the beginning of this day, for the gift of life.  Help us to do the right thing each day, to help others and to make life everlasting.  AJ

Dear Lord,

It says in Philippians, Chapter 19, that you will provide our needs.  I believe with all my heart that you will provide food and medicine for the poor, and you will provide houses for them too.  Amen.  Sharon.

Dear God,

We thank you and praise you.  Ryan

Thank you Jesus for the life I live, for everything in the environment and for my mates.  Thank you that we are able to live a happy life, and we are free to celebrate.  Reuben

Thank you for the world we live in and thank you for the life we have.  Kalpa

Dear Lord,

Thank you for all of the sick people that have become better.  Lord God, thank you  for sending Jesus, the saviour, down to us to save us from sin so we can have eternal life with God.  Matthew

Thank you for my family and friends and all the creatures in the world.  Please help my family come closer than ever and please keep us safe.  Tyson

To our lovely, beloved God,

Thank you for letting us have a beautiful sunny holiday and a great start to the term.  Te Amorangi

Dear God,

Thank you for all our families and friends, for celebrations and nature, for the different cultures, their dances and art.  Tayla

Dear Lord,

Thank you for my life, that I have the good things you gave to me and the love you show.  Roshan

O Heavenly Father,

Thank you for joy, thank you for love, thank you for celebration all around for us.  Tegan

Dear God,

Thank you for cultural celebrations and the different ways people make it joyful.  Roisin

Dear God,

Thank you for all the different celebrations that are able to happen in our world.  Please help everyone involved to have joy and peace.  Gemma

Dear Lord, 

Thank you for giving us the reasons to celebrate and may you give us more reasons to celebrate in the future.  May we be able to go through hard times knowing that we will celebrate when the hard times are overs and the joyful time have begun.  Dana

Dear Lord,

Thank you for sending Jesus to earth to save us from our sins.  Simba

Dear Lord,

Thank you for my family, friends, my shelter and the wonderful world I live in.  Kylah

Lord Jesus,

Thank you for all the wonderful celebrations you have given to us.  I pray that everyone will enjoy the wonderful creation and good time we have.  Amen.   DJ

Dear God,

Thank you for letting us have a wonderful life and holiday and for the life for everyone in the world.  Jorja.