Materials
None
Icebreaker Description
In this icebreaker / crowdbreaker, youth will refer to each other by famous personalities in their fictional family trees
Preparation
None
Icebreaker Activity
Materials
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Icebreaker Description
Youth will answer questions of scruples in this group icebreaker.
Preparation
Create a list of questions that test the integrity of a person but do not have easy black and white answers?
Materials
None
Icebreaker Description
In this icebreaker, team members must run around a person who is playing dead on the floor then join them playing opossum.
Preparation
No preparation is needed, but a clean floor or carpet helps. This can also be played outside in a grassy field.
Introduction
Opossum’s like to “play dead” when threatened. In this game you …
Toothpick
To remind you to pick out the good qualities in others… (Matt 7:1)
TestaMint’s
To remind you to refresh yourself from God’s Word Every day (Psalm 119:11)
Aspirin
For the headaches that come with the job of ministering to teenagers.
Nuts
To remind you that you have to be a bit nuts to work with youth
Rubber band
To …
Background of the Easter Egg
Of all the symbols associated with Easter the egg, the symbol of fertility and new life, is the most identifiable. The customs and traditions of using eggs have been associated with Easter for centuries.
Originally Easter eggs were painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring and were used in Easter egg rolling …
Monologue about the builder of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Can be used at any time of year, including Easter. Based on the ideas in a script written by Kate Rothacker.
“This script is made available through a special arrangement with Dramashare. If you are looking for free scripts for VBS, summer camps, youth meetings, mime, Children’s sermons, …
Materials
Jelly Beans of each color below: Yellow, Black, Red, White, Green. You can choose to place all of one color together inside a plastic Easter egg, or place one of each color inside an egg.
Gospel According to Jelly Beans: The meaning and explanation for each color is as follows:
Yellow Jelly Bean
The yellow Jelly bean reminds us …
Materials
Obtain a raw egg for each student and one for yourself. Bring crackers and egg salad or another snack in which eggs are the major ingredient.
Activity
As students enter the classroom, give each an egg and ask youth how an egg is similar to life.
2. “Eggs”identally drop your egg so that is breaks. (clean your mess up …
Blessed are the Meek
Matthew 5:5
Preached by Ken Sapp
January 16, 2000
Introduction: “The Sermon on the Mount Today”
Then Jesus took his disciples up the mountain and gathering them around him And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn:
In Valladolid, Spain stands a monument to the great explorer Christopher Columbus. Its most interesting feature is the statue of a lion destroying one of three Latin words – three words that had been part of Spain’s motto for centuries.
1492
On his first voyage, Christopher Columbus sailed through unknown waters to an unknown destination. Before his voyage, Spain’s standards …