DAY OF PRAYER letter
September 2026
Go Camp!
Pastor Carrie Butler
Faithful Intercessors,
This weekend, 168 Students, 78 Volunteers, and a host of CTK Staff will be heading to Camp Firwood for Go Camp!
For this weekend to be impactful, safe, and truly life-changing, we need God’s help. Will you join us in prayer? We believe what happens at camp can have a lasting impact on the lives of our students (and volunteers), and we are praying with great expectation that God’s love, presence, and power would be unmistakably evident throughout the weekend.
Below is the Prayer Guide we’re sending to everyone who has signed up to pray specifically for Go Camp. I thought it would be a wonderful resource to share with you for our Day of Prayer as well. We are incredibly grateful for your prayers and for the covering of intercession you are providing over our students, volunteers, and staff this weekend.
As always, if you’d like additional guidance for praying over our community and the world, feel free to grab one of the prayer guides from 24-7 Prayer and use it to focus your prayers on a specific topic or need.
Thank you for standing with us in prayer and believing with us for all that God wants to do at Go Camp!
Praying with you in unity,
Carrie
GO CAMP PRAYER GUIDE
Camp Dates: Friday, September 4 - Monday, September 7, 2026
Thank you for praying for the students, volunteers and leaders who will be part of Go Camp 2026! Our hope and prayer is that we would be joined together in unity as we pray for the weekend together, so feel free to use this Prayer Guide as needed, before, during and after camp.
Message Scripture for the Weekend
The speaker, Kyle Vick (Pastor of Youth from Bridgetown Church), will be speaking on our identity in Christ from the book of Colossians. We encourage you to read through the entire book of Colossians - it’s really short! - to help guide your prayers.
What are we hoping for? What’s the goal?
-That students meet and connect with the Father.
-That students feel seen, loved and know that they belong (by leaders and God)
-That students encounter Jesus and His Spirit.
-That we don’t get in the way of what God wants to do.
-That the times of encounter lead to lasting relationship, transformation, and discipleship.
Ways You Can Pray
This is not an exhaustive list, so feel free to pray as you feel led!
- Pray for Holy Spirit movement and openness to receive. Pray that God would move in power, revealing Himself to the students and leaders who need an encounter with Him. Pray that they would encounter the Father for who He is (generous, kind, loving, holy, faithful, etc) and that they would respond to Him with love, obedience and worship. Pray that Jesus is not missed for moving worship or a great talk; pray that everything points to Him and He is who is seen.
- Pray that the hearts and lives of students and leaders would be transformed. Pray that camp would not be a singular “mountaintop” experience, but that lasting relationship, transformation and discipleship would be embedded into their lives after camp. Pray that they choose to surrender their lives to Him every day.
- Pray for protection from the enemy and any spiritual forces that would seek to thwart what God wants to do. Ask the Prince of Peace to reign over every acre, every person, and every moment.
- Pray for protection from physical or emotional harm of any kind.
- Pray for the cabin leaders. Pray for energy, strength, wisdom, discernment, awareness. Pray for strong and lasting relationships to be built with students and other leaders.
- Pray for the activities, games, and free time. Pray for safety, joy and connection.
- Pray that meal times would be encouraging and joyful, bringing nourishment to the body.
- Pray that the staff team would be prepared to hold all things loosely. Pray they would let go of expectations and surrender to what God wants to do. Pray for wisdom and discernment. Pray for energy and good rest that allows them to lead from a place of peace, hope and their identity in Christ.
- Pray for Kyle who will be sharing the messages. Pray for energy and encouragement, for the prep time leading up to and during the weekend, and for attentiveness and obedience to the Holy Spirit. Pray for his family, friends and church community as they support him for the weekend.
- Pray for the worship team as they lead in song. Pray that they are tuned into one another and the Holy Spirit. Pray for the preparation of heart, soul and body. Pray for each team member to encounter Jesus afresh.
- Pray that all of the staff, leaders and volunteers would depend on God and listen to His voice. That God would make Himself obvious to them and that He would reveal Himself to them as they serve. Pray that they lead from a space of listening and obedience.
- Pray for parents and guardians whose kids will be at camp. Many of them may not know Jesus. Pray for peace, rest, receptivity and wisdom. Pray for conversations that will take place after the weekend to be fruitful and life-giving. Pray for continued transformation and a “ripple effect” of God’s ways and His love to be known in each home.