Grandparents’ Day of Prayer
Join Us in Making
September 7, 2025
(National Grandparents’ Day)
A Grandparents’ Day of Prayer
Are you a praying grandparent who believes in the power of prayer on behalf of your grandchildren?
On Sunday, September 7, 2025, Christian grandparents everywhere will be asked to stand in the gap together for our grandchildren just as Esther stood in the gap for her people in a desperate time. Together we will link arms with other grandparents in prayer for the sake of the next generations.
In the past, united prayer has bridged the gap between a great need and a great awakening.
Christian grandparents everywhere are being asked to stand in the gap for our grandchildren, just as Queen Esther stood in the gap for her people during a desperate time. Together, through prayer, we will link arms with other grandparents for the sake of our children, grandchildren, and the generations coming after them. This includes those children and grandchildren who are not biologically related to us but whom we love. We refer to them as our spiritual children and grandchildren.
We hope thousands of churches and groups will host a prayer event for Grandparents’ Day of Prayer. The event can be held in your church, home, retirement complex, or any meeting location you choose. It can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. For example, you may want to host a prayer breakfast or a luncheon after your church’s morning worship service. You may want to offer an afternoon tea or evening dessert in the comfort of your living room. Or you may want to have an informal prayer gathering with your closest friends. Remember: food is optional; prayer is key!
Christian Grandparenting Network is dedicated to making this day special and stress-free; therefore, we’ve created a Grandparents’ Day of Prayer Guidebook. The suggestions in this guide will help you organize and implement a prayer event at your church, in your neighborhood, or at a local Christian school or community center.
Thank you for joining us for this critical cause for the sake of the next generations, we hope these suggestions will be helpful, although you can create your own ideas.
Hosting An Event
Christian Grandparenting Network is dedicated to making this day special and stress-free; therefore, we’ve created a Grandparents’ Day of Prayer Guidebook. The suggestions in this guide will help you organize and implement a prayer event at your church, in your neighborhood, or at a local Christian school or community center.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
HISTORY
IMPORTANCE OF GRANDPARENTS’ DAY OF PRAYER
CALL TO ACTION
HOSTING AN EVENT
1. PRAY:
2. PLAN:
3. PROMOTE:
4. PREPARE:
EVENT IDEAS
GRANDPARENTS’ DAY OF PRAYER TO DO LIST
DAY OF THE EVENT
FOLLOWING THE EVENT
SUGGESTED EVENT PROGRAM
OPTION A:
OPTION B:
GUIDE FOR CORPORATE PRAYER
SUGGESTED PRAYERS FOR GRANDPARENTS
History
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a Senate proclamation, declaring the Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents Day.
More than ten years ago, under the leadership of Cavin Harper and Lillian Penner, the Christian Grandparenting Network challenged grandparents to commit this day to prayer; hence, the reason we now call the Sunday after Labor Day Grandparent Day of Prayer.
Importance of Grandparents’ Day of Prayer
As Christian grandparents, we find ourselves involved in a spiritual tug-of-war for the hearts, minds, and souls of our children and grandchildren. God’s truth is under assault everywhere, including our schools, political arenas, marketplaces, and churches. Satan is relentless in his attack to desensitize mankind to the Gospel Message and love of Christ.
A spiritual battle requires a spiritual weapon, and that weapon is prayer. As grandparents, we need to humble ourselves, seek God’s face, repent of our sin, and intercede on behalf of our children and grandchildren. Then, having done all, we must stand firm in our faith that God has heard and will answer our prayers according to His sovereign will.
A PRAYER FOR GRANDPARENTS’ DAY OF PRAYER
Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children (Lamentations 2:19).
Dearest Lord Jesus,
We come to you today, praying for each of our grandchildren and their parents. While these loved ones are precious to us, they are more adored by You, their Lord and Savior.
We pray You bless them with good health, sound minds, healthy emotions and loving hearts. Please guide and guard them in this challenging world. Let them know You intimately, love You passionately and serve You faithfully all the days of their lives. And when the time comes for them to leave this earth, please bring them home to You so that we may live together eternally.
We pray You equip us to be the godly grandparents, which You envisioned when You created us. May we always love our grandchildren as You love them. May we understand them as You understand them and view them as You view them.
Lord Jesus, we now place our thanksgivings and prayer request for our grandchildren and their parents at the foot of the cross… (Please mention your children and grandchildren by name, giving thanks and offering special prayer requests.)
All this, we ask in Your precious and powerful Name, Jesus!
Amen.
(A special thanks to Cathy Jacobs and Cheryl Cargill for giving us permission to adapt and use this prayer for this year’s Grandparents’ Day of Prayer. Cathy is the founder of Pass the Legacy and author of Pass the Legacy: 7 Keys for Grandparents Making a Difference. Cheryl serves as the SC GrandCamp registrar and editor of the newsletter, Grandparents on the Go.)
