Digital Resources
Awakening has produced resources for our students to use during and after their experience in Awakening.
Resources for Students & Youth Leaders
Awakening has produced resources for our students to use during and after their experience in Awakening. These resources are free and available for download for students, youth leaders, pastors and parents.

Awakening X Prayer Guide
Our theme for the Awakening 2025 is “Awake My Soul”! Buckle your seat belt and sink into your seat. Here at the Awakening, we are excited to help you consider your faith more closely—to deepen your ability to give and receive God’s love.
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Awakening IX Prayer Guide
Our theme for Awakening 2024 is “Turn My Eyes Upon Jesus.” We will approach this theme by praying the Psalms. In fact, our focus verse is from Psalm 119, “Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.”
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Awakening VIII Prayer Guide
This is the prayer and meditation guide spiritual formation during Awakening VIII. Make sure to keep a journal, a Bible, and this prayer guide available throughout the week, especially for our time together in the morning.
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40 Ways to Spend 5 Minutes with God
A guide that contains 40 prayer methods as suggestions for how to spend 5 minutes with God in prayer every day.
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Songwriting for Worship
A collection of reflections and helps from 16 songwriters who regularly write for the church.
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The Six Pegs of a Worship Leader
As a fun and familiar analogy for the essential skills that each worship leader needs to develop, Bruce Benedict uses the six tuning-pegs of a guitar to illustrate the key areas where we need to pursue God in cultivating our calling and competencies.
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Engaging lessons and classes led by our guest artists that you can do on your own. This may be a time to also engage in an art form you are not accustomed to.
- Worship Leading
- Acoustic Guitar
- Percussion/Set
- Flute
- Visual Art
- Bass Guitar
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- Cello
- Saxophone
- Prayer Guide and Discipleship
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- Worshipping God in Nature
Awakening Webinars







Interested in worship?
Whether you want to explore your vocation in worship or the arts, or simply want to
become a better worshipper, Awakening is for you.
Prof. James De Boer
Director of Awakening
workP. 616.395.7638
awakening@hope.edu