Lent (March 5–April 17, 2025) is a time of reflection and devotion. Instead of giving something up, will you take something on—prayer? “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective” (James 5:16). Join us for 40 Days of Prayer for Keys for Kids Ministries. Satan hates what we’re doing, but “the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one” (2 Thessalonians 3:3). Will you stand with us? 

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Day 35 (April 14) – Unlocked, our devotional for high school teens, seeks to help readers understand how the gospel affects social issues facing them each day. Teens receive so many messages about gender and sexuality in particular. Unlocked looks to Scripture to help us lovingly and faithfully address these and other issues facing our youth today. Pray for the Unlocked team as they seek to help teens understand and live out a gospel-centered sexuality. 

Day 36 (April 15) – Parent Minute with Greg Yoder is a one-minute radio program heard on nearly 200 radio outlets. Greg talks about his experience in raising his kids and his impact on his grandkids. He shares his successes and failures in parenting and grandparenting, using the Bible as his guide for each episode. Pray that God will help the program grow on radio stations around the country and that more parents will tune in each day or sign up to receive Greg’s daily parenting tips at parentminute.org. Pray also for inspiration and topics for future episodes. 

Day 37 (April 16) – Keys for Kids Ministries receives some of its funding through private foundations. God has opened additional opportunities for funding. To expand the ministry, we are looking for like-minded families and organizations. Pray that the development team will be successful in discovering new foundations that will be willing to support our mission of igniting a passion for Christ in kids, teens, and families worldwide. We have identified 12 foundations that could help provide new funding for Keys for Kids Ministries.

Day 38 (April 17) – Join us in praying for our “Who is Jesus/Know Jesus” campaign. The first step in this campaign is to create evangelistic devotionals for unchurched kids. Pray that we would overcome the many obstacles we are facing in this campaign and that we would find the right devotions that can touch the hearts of kids who have never heard the gospel.

Day 39 (April 18) – Keys for Kids Radio (keysforkids.net) is a tough ministry to fully fund because our main listeners are kids, who don't have the resources to meaningfully support. Another source of funding is recruiting businesses who have a passion for reaching kids to underwrite the cost of this work. Pray that we would be able to find businesses that would be willing to financially support Keys for Kids Radio. Many Christian business leaders are approached daily by ministries for funding, so we’re asking God to help the leaders we talk with to understand the unique value Keys for Kids Radio provides to families.

Day 40 (April 19) – The Keys for Kids Board of Directors sacrifices their time to provide leadership for Keys for Kids Ministries. Their experience, dedication, financial support, and love for Christ are all a blessing to us. Pray for each board member today: Duane Culver (Chairman), Scott VanderVeen (Vice-Chairman), Jamie Botsko (Treasurer), Lee Hageman (Secretary), Scott Cousino, Ryan Kidd, and Joe Moss. Pray also for our standing committees: finance, marketing, fundraising, and technology. 

Day 29 (April 7) – Our Graphic Designer, Warren Kramer, creates each cover of Unlocked to depict one of the stories inside the devotional. Pray for Warren as he creates these covers and designs the devotional pages. Pray that God will use the illustrations to draw teens in to read the devotions. Pray that as teens read Unlocked, they’ll not only come to know Jesus but will continue growing in their walks with Christ.

Day 30 (April 8) – Keys for Kids Ministries has identified a partner who can help distribute our Arabic (Egyptian) Storytellers (keysforkids.org/storyteller) to people in areas of the Middle East and North Africa who speak this dialect. Pray that God will provide the funding needed to purchase more Storytellers. Ask God to provide the logistics to get them to an area that’s opposed to Christianity. 

Day 31 (April 9) – Keys for Kids Ministries will be at the Gospel Coalition’s conference in April, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The ministry’s Greg Yoder and Brian Felten will be there to tell the Christian community about Keys for Kids Ministries. We hope to grow the number of new devotional subscribers, expand our church partner network for our international ministry, outreach partners, and overall awareness. Pray God will start now in preparing hearts and minds to hear what resources Keys for Kids Ministries has to offer them to help kids, teens, and families open God’s Word. 

Day 32 (April 10) – Keys Outreach is a program that helps Christian organizations. We provide our devotionals to organizations with their custom logo, a letter from the organization, and pictures, schedule, or other pieces of information the organization wants to communicate. Pray to expand this program to Christian schools, daycare centers, churches, ministries, sports camps and clubs, and businesses. Pray that this would help these Christian organizations to ignite a passion for Christ in kids, teens, and families.

Day 33 (April 11) – We have a goal of increasing our subscribers at Keys for Kids Ministries by 2,500. Join us in prayer for this goal.

Day 34 (April 12) – Do you know Keys for Kids is available in Spanish every day on https://llavesdelcielo.org? We have provided it in text only for many years. Now, we’d like to provide an audio version for the website. We’re looking for supporters or a sponsor who will cover the $600 a month to produce the audio. Eighty percent of the world are oral learners. The best way we can reach kids and families in Latin America is through audio. Support this work at keysforkids.org/international.

Note (April 13): Sundays are not included in the 40 days of Lent. Enjoy celebrating Jesus with your church family today!
 

Day 23 (March 31) – Pray for several of our staff who are struggling with family issues affecting their adult prodigal children. These family members are not living for the Lord, and we’re not sure about their salvation. Would you pray that the Holy Spirit will work in their hearts? Ask God to provide wisdom to our staff who are struggling to know what to do or say that would make a difference.

Day 24 (April 1) – We partnered with FMI and created audio Keys for Kids stories to load onto our Storyteller units in the Urdu language, which is the first language of more than 90 million people living in Pakistan. Pakistan is predominately Muslim, and Christians are persecuted regularly. The Storytellers are extremely effective in reaching kids there. Funding is desperately needed for this program. FMI leaders tell us they could easily use more than 1,000 Storytellers a month. The Storytellers played a part in seeing kids come to faith in Christ in a Muslim village in Northern Pakistan. 

Day 25 (April 2) – The Keys for Kids Ministries administrative team includes Brian Felten, Brian Jones, Dylan Kraayenbrink, Courtney Lasater, Hannah Howe, Robin Morehouse, Andy Ye, and Greg Yoder. Pray for wisdom for the team as they run their various areas of Keys for Kids Ministries. Together, the team is responsible for approving new partnerships, fundraising, recommending new policies, and making decisions on the direction of the ministry. Pray that the team will be able to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading and make decisions that will ignite a passion for Christ in kids, teens, and families worldwide. Pray that God will give the team new ideas and wisdom on how to reach kids, teens, and families effectively. 
 
Day 26 (April 3) – Pray for the audio production of the Keys for Kids, Unlocked, and Parent Minute radio/audio spots. The production team that includes Dylan, Phil, Steve, and Josh is always looking for ways to make the programs sound better. Ask God to provide ideas to the team that will help grow the distribution networks of Keys for Kids, Unlocked, and Parent Minute. Pray also that God will give clear direction about turning our Unlocked podcast into a syndicated radio program.
 
Day 27 (April 4) – Keys for Kids Ministries is approaching the time of year when it becomes difficult to raise money: summer. We’ll be holding a few events to help offset that lack of giving. The Keys for Kids Ministries Week of Giving is scheduled for May 12-16. Our summer reading programs begin June 1. Pray with us today that God would raise up an army of new donors who can help us ignite a passion for Christ in kids, teens, and families worldwide. We’re asking God to double the number of monthly donors, whom we affectionately refer to as Key Club Members.

Day 28 (April 5) – Our summer reading programs begin on June 1! WORD with Zach is our way of helping kids continue reading during the summer months. Last year, we launched a new teen summer reading challenge to help teens do the same. As kids and teens open their Bibles and read Keys for Kids or Unlocked, they learn solid biblical truths. Pray that God will increase the number of kids and teens joining the programs. In order to do that, funding is needed to promote it. Ask God to bring sponsors to the programs to help fund these programs and to improve the technology needed to facilitate them.

Note (April 6): Sundays are not included in the 40 days of Lent. Enjoy celebrating Jesus with your church family today!

Day 17 (March 24) – Macedonia was a significant place in Scripture. It was the first place Paul preached on his missionary journey. With the help of Radio Emanuel, Keys for Kids Ministries has a Macedonian Storyteller. Unfortunately, many of these Storytellers are sitting on our shelves. Pray that ministries would discover this tool and begin using it in their children’s ministries.
 
Day 18 (March 25) – Praise God for opening new opportunities for us in marketing! Please pray for God’s wisdom and leading as we seek avenues in which to reach people with our ministry, as well as for open opportunities for partnerships. Please also pray for us as we work to build the store into a valuable resource center for parents and adults who are discipling kids and teens, and as we work to make some technical changes to our website for easier access and design.
 
Day 19 (March 26) – Unlocked (unlocked.org) is our devotional for high school teens. Hannah is the editor of our devotional. Taylor is her editorial assistant. Please pray for them as they create our teen devotional with the help of dozens of contributing writers. Many teens want a devotional to help challenge them in their walk with the Lord. Unlocked is also used by many teens who are being led by the Spirit to seek Him, as well as teens who are new in their faith. Pray that their knowledge of God’s Word will deepen. Pray that the Holy Spirit will help each reader or listener have the wisdom needed to understand and connect with what they’re reading or hearing and grow in their faith. Also pray for Josh as he produces the Unlocked audio for the website and app. 
 
Day 20 (March 27) – Keys for Kids Radio (keysforkids.net) provides radio programming to kids 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can hear it when you download our Keys for Kids app (on the app store). Pray for Steve and Dylan as they host Keys for Kids Radio. Pray for Tami as she creates the music playlist for each day. 

Day 21 (March 28) – Keys for Kids Radio broadcasts in many countries around the world. While the United States and Canada are the top two countries, many people are listening in countries that are closed to the gospel. China is just one example. We’re hearing reports that adults are listening to Keys for Kids Radio to learn English. Ask God to use the programming, music, and more to lead people to Christ.

Day 22 (March 29) – Throughout the years, many authors have written for Unlocked. Currently, there are about 20 authors who write devotions regularly for us, and many more who submit less regularly. These contributing authors are teens, college students, youth leaders, and other adults who have a passion to help teens know and follow Jesus. Join us in a prayer of thankfulness for those authors who already contribute, as well as a prayer for more writers, and especially more men (young and old), who can connect with the teen readers of Unlocked.  

Note (March 30): Sundays are not included in the 40 days of Lent. Enjoy celebrating Jesus with your church family today!

Day 11 (March 17) – Pray for our Keys for Kids Chinese department. It’s our newest in-house department. Andy is the director of this program, which is just a few years old. This department has some significant goals that we can’t talk about publicly. It does mean new resources in Chinese which includes print, mobile app, social media, electronics, and more for Chinese-speaking people worldwide, including restricted places in Asia. We need to raise nearly $100,000 for the department this year.

Day 12 (March 18) – Keys for Kids Ministries has about 20 people who regularly write for our Keys for Kids devotional (devos.keysforkids.org). They come from all walks of life. Please pray for our contributors. Pray that God will give them wisdom as they write stories for Keys for Kids. Pray that God will use stories to lead kids to Jesus and encourage them to read the Bible and share their faith with others as they grow spiritually.
 
Day 13 (March 19) – Courtney is the editor for our Keys for Kids devotional. She has been our editor for nearly 10 years. Zoe, our editorial assistant, provides the support Courtney needs to ensure we’re providing the devotionals read by kids and families worldwide. Please pray for our editorial department as we navigate the cultural changes impacting the kids and families we serve. We’re seeking God’s guidance in shaping the Keys for Kids devotional in the months and years ahead.

Day 14 (March 20) – The Keys for Kids Storyteller program currently has 10 languages completed. We have two more in various phases of completion (Farsi and Swahili). Storytellers are solar-powered MP3 players with an audio Bible and Keys for Kids stories loaded on them (keysforkids.org/storyteller). Funding is desperately needed. Pakistan is completely out of Storytellers; Afghanistan will be out of them soon. We have a need for 2,000 Arabic Storytellers in North Africa. Pray God would provide funding needed to meet these needs. 
 
Day 15 (March 21) – Pray for the Keys for Kids Ministries staff and leaders as we begin to implement a new organizational strategic plan, which is calling us to find new technology and pathways to reach more kids, teens, and families worldwide. Please pray that our staff can work together seamlessly to continue doing the work we do. Sometimes plans can get in the way of the Holy Spirit leading us. Pray that we’ll be open to the Spirit’s leading as we continue to ignite a passion for Christ in kids, teens, and families worldwide. 
 
Day 16 (March 22) – Pray for Parent Minute with Greg Yoder, a radio program on a few hundred Christian radio stations mostly in North America. The editorial teams also just completed a new 365-day devotional book called Parent Minute with Greg Yoder: Imperfect Parenting in an Imperfect World. Pray that God uses the radio program and this book to help parents parent biblically.  

Note (March 23) -- Sundays are not included in the 40 days of Lent. Enjoy celebrating Jesus with your church family today!

Day 1 (March 5) – As Russian attacks persist in Ukraine, Mission Eurasia and Keys for Kids Ministries have distributed over 600,000 devotionals to kids and teens since 2022. Despite ongoing violence, including recent missile strikes in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine, these ministries continue to provide spiritual support. Pray for our efforts and consider donating to supply these vital resources to youth leaders, pastors, and camp directors.

Day 2 (March 6) – Pray for the Keys for Kids Radio team as they bring joy on air while staying faithful to God’s Word. Ask God to help them meet the challenges of writing, recording, and producing multiple programs each week. Also, pray for the development of a new pre-school streaming service, providing Christ-centered content to help kids grow in their faith. May God guide and bless this exciting expansion of ministry! Pray also the Alexa skills to play Keys for Kids Radio can be fixed. We’ve spent hours trying to fix it. 

Day 3 (March 7) – Pray for our partnership with Good News Nepal. Brother Philip, who leads the team, was hit by a bus in February, suffering two broken legs and other injuries. Praise God he is expected to fully recover, but healing will take time. Keys for Kids Ministries is working with Good News Nepal to translate and produce Keys for Kids in Nepali, now airing on 20 radio stations. Pray for the team as they assess the impact of books, Storytellers (solar-powered MP3 players with a full audio Bible and Keys for Kids stories), and radio programs.
 
Day 4 (March 8) – Pray for the staff of Keys for Kids Ministries as we continue to pursue the calling that God has given each of us. Ask the Lord to protect the team from sickness, discouragement, and sin. Ask that God would make His will clear and draw us deeper into His plan so that nothing can hinder us from igniting a passion for Christ in kids, teens, and families worldwide.
 
Note (March 9): Sundays are not included in the 40 days of Lent. Enjoy celebrating Jesus with your church family today!

Day 5 (March 10) – Ask God to use our Keys for Camps program to encourage campers who receive our Keys for Kids and Unlocked devotionals each quarter. Pray that the campers would regularly read the devotions, maintain their focus during reading, and take the message of God’s Word to heart. If there are campers who have stopped reading for whatever reason, ask the Holy Spirit to remind them to start reading the devotions again.
 
Day 6 (March 11) – Keys for Kids Ministries has two mobile apps that serve to ignite a passion for Christ in kids, teens, and families. The Keys for Kids and Unlocked app platforms have been downloaded by more than 100,000 people from all over the world. Pray for wisdom as we continue to promote the apps to more kids, teens, and families. We believe it’s an effective evangelistic and discipleship tool. We’re currently making tweaks to the Keys for Kids app. Pray we can raise the funds needed for that. 

Day 7 (March 12) – Pray that the Holy Spirit will intervene to soften the hearts of kids, teens, and families around the world who are reading or listening to our devotions, and that they would give their lives to Christ. For those who have already given their hearts to Christ, ask the Holy Spirit to remind them to stay in the Word, practice what they learn, and share their faith with others. 
 
Day 8 (March 13) – Pray for Phil Ayres (the voice of Zach) as he records Keys for Kids stories and other audio for Keys for Kids Radio. Ask God to protect him from sickness, give him wisdom as he writes copy for the programs, and provide words that would clearly communicate the message of the gospel through each recording. Phil is also a pastor. Pray God’s blessing upon his preaching and teaching.
 
Day 9 (March 14) – The summer camp season is just a few months away. Ask God to bless our Keys for Camps program. This is a program that helps camps encourage campers to stay in God’s Word all year long—not just for a week at camp—by creating resources sent directly to campers' homes. Pray that Brian Jones (our Camp Coordinator) can recruit camps for the program. Ask God to open these ministry doors to help us touch the lives of more than 50,000 campers this year. Most importantly, ask God to lead kids, teens, and families to Himself and help them grow in their faith. 
 
Day 10 (March 15) – Funding is an essential piece of Keys for Kids Ministries. Funding allows us to print devotionals and books, create and distribute radio programming, translate our materials, and pay our utilities and staff. Would you pray that God would call people to rise and give monthly toward the mission we believe God has set for us? In conjunction, please pray that the Lord will give us discernment, and reveal what doors of the ministry need to be opened or closed. We need to raise more than $2.2 million each year for this ministry.

Note (March 16): Sundays are not included in the 40 days of Lent. Enjoy celebrating Jesus with your church family today!

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