Would You Consider Abortion?

Would you consider abortion in the following 4 situations ?

1. There’s a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?

2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have 4 children. 1st is blind, 2nd is deaf, 3rd is deaf, 4th has TB. She finds she’s pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion?

3. A white man raped a 13 year old black girl and she got pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?

4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Her fiance is not the father of the baby, and he’s very upset. Would you consider recommending abortion?

In the first case, you have just killed John Wesley. One of the great evangelists in the 19th century.
In the second case, you have killed Beethoven.
In the third case, you have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer.
If you said yes to the fourth case, you have just committed the murder of Jesus Christ !!!!


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Difficult Times Drama

Materials
You’ll need 1 role card for each person, tape, and Bibles. A tape player and blues music are optional.

Role Cards
Print the following “roles” on 3X5 cards. Not all options may be suitable so use your own discretion.
* Business and home were lost in a flood.
* Home and all belongings were destroyed in a fire.
* Family was killed in an auto accident
* Home was burglarized.
* Family member is dying of cancer
* Father Lost his job a week before Christmas.
* Failed all your examinations
* Best friend died in a freak accident
* You are being forced to leave Singapore
* Your brother died during an National Service drill
* You mother was hospitalized and can’t afford the bills
* Your sister was raped.

For a little humor you could include:
* You ran out of toilet paper
* Your goldfish died
* You were stood up on date

Think of a different role for each student; or simply repeat.

Activity
Form a circle. Walk among the youth and tape a role card on each person’s back so that others may read the role. Say: “I’m giving you each a role to play although you don’t know what it is. I will tell you that each of you has become the victim of some sort of disaster”.

For a few minutes, let youth mingle and role play, treating each other as if they were really in the designated circumstances, but without revealing the roles. You may wish to play some blues music.

Discussion
1. What was your initial reaction to your situation?
2. What are some feelings that you might have under these circumstances? Explain.
3. How might you feel toward other people? toward God?
4. How did others respond to you in your activity?
5. Were the reactions realistic? Why or why not?
6. How did their words make you feel?
7. Why is it difficult to trust God in hard times?
8. What is one reason we can trust God in the hardest times?


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Asleep

Preparation
The group will be divided into teams of 8 persons, each arranged in a circle. Each circle will have a disciple (adult) to watch them.

Activity
1. The group has one minute to form a circle around the disciple with not more than four points of contact with the ground. (Members may not lie across the ground)
2. After 1 minute time will be called, and disciples will take note of the group. If the group has not reached the correct arrangement, the disciple falls asleep and that team is out.
3. This continues with remaining teams forming new arrangements every minute. i.e. they must arrange themselves differently.
4. The team which keeps their disciple awake the longest will be rewarded.

Application
1. Sometimes the desire to accomplish a task is not enough. There must also be confidence in God and commitment to him. The disciples falling asleep in the garden of Gethsemane was one event in which you see a lack of commitment. Jesus in the Garden is an example of real commitment.
2. Mark 14:32-42, Luke 22:39-46, John 18:1, Matthew 26:36-46 – Garden of Gethsemane


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48 Hours

“I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contented condition, when suddenly a stab of pain threatens serious disease, or a newspaper headline threatens us all with destruction. “At first I am overwhelmed, and all my little happiness look like broken toys. And perhaps, by God’s grace, I succeed, and for a day or two become a creature consciously dependent on God and drawing its strength from the right sources. But the moment the threat is withdrawn, my whole nature leaps back to the toys. “Thus the terrible necessity of tribulation is only too clear. God has had me for but 48 hours and then only by dint of taking everything else away from me. Let Him but sheathe the sword for a minute, and I behave like a puppy when the hated bath is over — I shake myself as dry as I can and race off to reacquire my comfortable dirtiness in the nearest flower bed. “And that is why tribulation cannot cease until God sees us remade.”

Source: From The Problem of Pain; quoted in Daily Walk, May 16/17, 1992

35,000 Feet

As I write this I’m at 35,000 feet. It’s 5:45 pm, Saturday. It should be 4:15. The airliner was an hour and half late. People are grumpy. Some are downright mad. Stewardesses are apologizing, promising extra booze to take off the edge. To complicate matters, a Japanese man across the aisle from me has a rather severe nosebleed and they’re trying to instruct the poor chap…but he doesn’t speak a work of English!

So now the meal is late. The lady on my left has a cold and makes an enormous sound when she sneezes (about every ninety seconds–I’ve timed her!) It’s something like a dying calf in a hail storm or a bull moose with one leg in a trap. Oh, one more thing. The sports film on golf just broke down and so did the nervous system of half the men on board. It’s a zoo!

It all started with the delay. ‘Mechanical trouble,’ they said. ‘Inexcusable,’ responded a couple of passengers. Frankly, I’d rather they fix it before we leave than decide to do something about it en route. But we Americans don’t like to wait. Delays are irritating. Aggravating. Nerve-jangling. With impatient predictability we are consistently–and I might add obnoxiously–demanding. We want what we want when we want it. Not one of us finds a delay easy to accept…

The ability to accept delay. Or disappointment. To smile back at setbacks and respond with a pleasant, understanding spirit. To cool it while others around you curse it. For a change, I refused to be hassled by today’s delay. I asked God to keep me calm and cheerful, relaxed and refreshed. Know what? He did. He *really* did! No pills. No booze. No hocus-pocus. Just relaxing in the power of Jesus.

I can’t promise you that others will understand. You see, I’ve got another problem now. Ever since takeoff I’ve been smiling at the stewardesses, hoping to encourage them. Just now I overheard one of them say to the other, ‘Watch that guy wearing glasses. I think he’s had too much to drink.”

Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Source: “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”


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Top Turkey Artist

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Materials

Sheet of paper and a tray or hard cover book for eack participant.

Activity
Everyone places a tray or large book on top their head with a piece of blank paper on it. Participant are to draw on the page resting on the top of their head, without looking, according to the instructions given.

Instructions might be
1. Draw a circle for the body of the Turkey.
2. Draw the turkey’s head and neck on top of the body.
3. Draw two feet for the turkey.
4. Add the turkey’s beak and waddle.
5, Add the Turkey’s Tail feathers
At the end of instructions, everyone removes the pictures from their heads. It can be very funny to see what they have drawn.

Scoring options:
2 points for every line that crosses
1 point if your turkey’s feet are touching the body
1 point if your turkey’s head is attached to the body.
1 point for feather that is ON the turkey.

Award the person with the greatest number of points the prize!

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Tearable Turkey

turkey4.jpgMaterials
Sheet of brown construction paper for each participant.

Activity
Participants must rip a sheet of construction paper into the shape of a turkey — behind their back. They are not allowed to look at their creation until it is complete. Hang the works of art up for everyone to judge. Give prizes for the best-looking turkeys.

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