Special Character Reflection

Kia Ora everyone

Freya, Bella, Elise, and Sirafin would like to share with you this prayer as the junior special characters to wish you all the best for the school holidays this coming week. 

Heavenly Father,

As we come to the end of the term, we thank you for your presence throughout our learning, our challenges, and our achievements. Thank you for our gift of education and our teachers, classmates, and families who support and encourage us daily. As we enter the holidays, we ask for rest and renewal. May our time away from school be filled with peace, joy, and aroha. Bless our homes with laughter, our conversations with grace, and our hearts with compassion for those in need. Help us to return in the new term with a renewed spirit, ready to learn and grow in faith.

We also want to pray over those who are in time of political unrest or at war. Right now the news is full of conflicts like those in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, and many other places around the globe. It's easy for students to feel overwhelmed, scared, or even hopeless when they see so much fighting going on. 

In Jesus's name we pray,
 Amen