Click here to pre-register for the 2026 event
Our Second Scouts & Youth Read Sacred Texts Worldwide event greatly exceeded everyone’s expectations. During the week of May 1, 2025, the National Day of Prayer, 5680 Scouts and youth participated, compared with 3672 last year, a 54% increase. The hours read were 2365 compared to 855 last year, a 275% increase. Most read at home with their families.
This year, we made some changes and invited all youth not in scouting and youth organizations that believe in God to join us. As a result, we had youth from 4-H, American Heritage Girls, Knights of Columbus, Campfire, and Girl Scouts participate.
We had forty-three states, and fourteen foreign countries/territories participate. Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Germany, Guam, India, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Uganda, and even Palestine.
Many Faith groups participated who were not in Scouting. We had AME, Bahai, Baptist, Buddhist, Catholic, Christian, Christian Scientist, Community of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Eastern Orthodox, Global United Methodist, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Lutheran, Native American, Nondenominational, Presbyterian, Protestant, Sathya Sai, Sikh, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ and United Methodist youth.
Obviously, we are repeating this event in 2026.
Next year, the National Day of Prayer is on May 7th, so will be reading sacred texts that entire week.
We invite all youth serving organizations and faith youth groups to join us.
Click here to see promotional video: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1081882592
Questions? Please contact youthreadsacredtexts@gmail.com
