Middle Years Father’s Breakfast

On Monday morning our students gathered with their fathers, grandfathers and brothers to celebrate Father’s Day. This provided us with a great opportunity to acknowledge the importance of these men in the lives of our students as well as share a delicious barbecued breakfast. Here is the prayer that we prayed;

Lord, thank you for all our fathers

For the new ones

who endure sleepless nights with infants in arms.

For the busy ones

Who juggle the pressures of home and family life,

For the patient ones,

Who always seek to forgive and engage with their pre-teens.

For the persistent ones,

Who cleverly find ways to connect to their mini-adults.

For the steadfast ones

who nurture and care for our special, vulnerable children.

For the uncles,

Who step in to cradle and care for nieces and nephews.

For all the grandfathers

Who love and support their precious grandchildren.

For the foster dads

who are called to gather and cover the fragile ones.

For the Sunday dads

Who care for our children and lead them in faith.

For the dads who give far beyond their own resources,

Who overcome disability to cherish and love.

Thank you Lord for all our beautiful fathers.

Help us to support them and keep them in our prayers.

May you bless them.

Amen