Prayer Guide

There are 31 items listed, allowing you to pray for one item per day. Thank you for joining us in prayer.

Together we pray for:

• Rigorous, open-minded learning that leads to understanding, wisdom, and wonder.
• Creativity and clarity for faculty as they teach complex subjects.
• Doors to open for each student who is searching for a major, an internship, or a job.
• Students studying abroad to engage deeply and intentionally with their host families and cultural context.
  
   

• Time management and self-discipline as students balance academic work with cocurricular activities and jobs.
• Parents and families adapting to changing relationships with adult children.
• Students’ mental health and willingness to utilize support resources when needed.
• Students to maintain healthy boundaries with their use of technology.
• Financial resources for students and families to fully cover tuition and daily living expenses.
• Your student’s roommates, suitemates, or housemates to be strengthened and encouraged in their daily activities.
• Your student’s challenges and failures to strengthen them for future tasks.
• Deep and meaningful relationships for single, dating, and married students.
  
  
  
   

• A local church home for every student where they can feel equipped and engaged.
• Joy in the unique gifts, passions, and opportunities God has given your student.
• Students to develop a rich Christian faith that is informed, courageous, and lived.
• Students to become local and global citizens who are attentive and insightful participants in the world
• .Students to cultivate the virtues of justice, courage, compassion, discipline, and humility.
• Joy in the unique gifts, passions, and opportunities God has given your student. 
  
   

• Robust music, theater, dance, and fine arts programming that brings delight.
• Racial and ethnic unity so that students can appreciate and learn from differences.
• International students as they navigate American culture and make Calvin home.
• Off-campus students to build cordial relationships with their neighbors.
• Our Life and Career Studies students to be fully welcomed into campus life.
• Students who are lonely or homesick to make friends and find mentors.
• Healthy student-athletes who perform with excellence and good sportsmanship.
   

• Wisdom for the Cabinet and leadership team as they cast vision, make decisions, and lead.
• Discernment for campus ministries, counseling, and student life staff as they guide and encourage students.
• Protection and safety for campus.
• Our Handlon Campus students to be servant-leaders as they interact with their peers and correctional officers.
• Wayfinder Program students to balance work, school, and family life.
• Our dining services staff as they provide thousands of meals each day.
• Willing and cheerful donors to the general fund, scholarships, and facility upgrades.