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Praying Their Way: 24 Prayer Practices for Kids and the Adults Who Love Them
Learn how to help kids develop an authentic relationship with God.
Children have a natural curiosity about God and an innate draw towards mystery. As they grow, kids ask bigger, more complex spiritual questions, and they need guides to help them explore their budding faith lives. Frustratingly, many of us lack the confidence or skills to talk to kids about prayer. We need resources to help us help them pray, in their own words and on their terms.
In Praying Their Way, seminary professor, pastor, and dad Roger Owens partners with his 15-year-old daughter Mary Clare to offer a unique guidebook for introducing kids to a lifelong journey with prayer. Filled with an abundance of tools to engage kids between the ages of 10-14 on the topic of prayer, this book provides support for that awkward time as kids grow from young children into teenagers and their faith grows and evolves too.
In this new resource for adults and the "tweens" they care for, you'll discover a new vocabulary for talking about prayer, specific prompts for conversation, and two dozen prayer practices in six different categories (scripture, silence, body, nature, together, and justice) to explore with kids in grades 5-8. Praying Their Way is easily adaptable for younger kids and kids through 9th grade, as well as the spiritual-but-not-religious audience.
Written for parents, grandparents, godparents, pastors, children's ministers, and Sunday school teachers, Praying Their Way is the book we have all been longing for. With Roger and Mary Clare as your wise guides, you will embark on a joyful journey of discovery and holy connection with the kids you love. And, as you share these practices with these young people, you may find that your own relationship with God is deepened and enriched as well.
Children have a natural curiosity about God and an innate draw towards mystery. As they grow, kids ask bigger, more complex spiritual questions, and they need guides to help them explore their budding faith lives. Frustratingly, many of us lack the confidence or skills to talk to kids about prayer. We need resources to help us help them pray, in their own words and on their terms.
In Praying Their Way, seminary professor, pastor, and dad Roger Owens partners with his 15-year-old daughter Mary Clare to offer a unique guidebook for introducing kids to a lifelong journey with prayer. Filled with an abundance of tools to engage kids between the ages of 10-14 on the topic of prayer, this book provides support for that awkward time as kids grow from young children into teenagers and their faith grows and evolves too.
In this new resource for adults and the "tweens" they care for, you'll discover a new vocabulary for talking about prayer, specific prompts for conversation, and two dozen prayer practices in six different categories (scripture, silence, body, nature, together, and justice) to explore with kids in grades 5-8. Praying Their Way is easily adaptable for younger kids and kids through 9th grade, as well as the spiritual-but-not-religious audience.
Written for parents, grandparents, godparents, pastors, children's ministers, and Sunday school teachers, Praying Their Way is the book we have all been longing for. With Roger and Mary Clare as your wise guides, you will embark on a joyful journey of discovery and holy connection with the kids you love. And, as you share these practices with these young people, you may find that your own relationship with God is deepened and enriched as well.
192 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2026
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L. Roger Owens
10 books5 followersCo-Pastor, Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, Durham, NC
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March 23, 2026
The book sets out to teach kids ways to pray that feel like their own. The first part of the book offers conversations about prayer, with chapters like “God is Smiling at You,” “No Right Way,” “When and Where,” and even trickier topics like “Answered Prayer,” plus easy conversation starter prompts at the end. What I loved about these chapters and the book as a whole is that the authors assume, “Kids already have deep spiritual lives that are deeply attuned to God,” (p.13) and the tone throughout is gentle and inviting. Each short chapter of part one includes a reflection written by teenager Mary Clare that is really relatable. My own kids reflected that it was really refreshing reading something written by someone their own age.
The book is written in such a way that you could read it to or with your kids, or they could read it on their own. I love that the authors take kids seriously and don’t condescend or oversimplify just because their target audience is middle schoolers and high schoolers (the book says it’s for kids ages 10-14, but I think even older kids could really benefit from it too).
The book is written in such a way that you could read it to or with your kids, or they could read it on their own. I love that the authors take kids seriously and don’t condescend or oversimplify just because their target audience is middle schoolers and high schoolers (the book says it’s for kids ages 10-14, but I think even older kids could really benefit from it too).
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