Relying on God’s Strength

Materials
You’ll need a Bible and enough canned goods for each person to have two cans. You can also use barbells, bricks, stones or other heavy objects. 1 liter water bottles willed with water are also effective.

Activity
Give every person two cans, and have them hold the cans with their arms straight out from their bodies. Challenge the youth …

No Power

Materials
Electrical appliances and other items which are useless without power

Activity
Demonstrate various electric tools and appliances without plugging them in:
1. Use your electric screw driver to turn a screw.
2. Mix a drink with a spoon using your blender.
3. Sit in front of a fan that is off, fanning yourself with your hand.
4. Sharpen your …

Aunt Sally

This game is based on a skit I saw as a teen called “Aunt Sally.”skit

Preparation
Divide the youth into at least two teams of 4-8 people. Line each team up in a line, sitting side by side in chairs. (To make it more humorous you may wish to have teams lined up facing each other.)

Game Play
Instruct each …

Kid Klumps

Materials
None

Activity
In this game for youth, children or adults, you will call out a number and one of the following body parts (knees, hands, eyes, or body) The participants must then get into clumps (groups) of the number you called with the touching his/her body part you named. For example: if I called 3 knees, then everyone must …

Biblical Wisdom?

Objective
To help students learn to differentiate between the wisdom of the Bible and the wisdom of men.

Activity
Listed below are common sayings. Many are from the Bible. Others are not. There are several possible activities that can be done with these saying. One option is to split each saying in half and put each part on a separate …

By Him All Things Were Created

Materials
Construction paper (assorted colours). Stickers of animals, plants and stars. Glue.

Activity
Use one sheet of construction paper for each of the seven days of creation and add one extra sheet with a cross, 8 sheets in all.
Day 1. On the first page, paste a large black circle with a semicircle of yellow covering half of it. Over …

Finding Direction

Materials
A compass

Activity
1. As a small game stand in the center of the room as the target. Students must arrange themselves in lines next to you to form a cross “+”.
2. Designate each direction of the cross as according to the directions of the compass (North, South, East, West).
3. Using the compass, let youth rotate themselves …

Image of an Invisible God

Image of an Invisible God

Materials
TV set

Activity
Explain that while we are surrounded by television signals, we cannot see them. In order to see this signal we need a TV to show it to us. Different channels are on different frequencies. Demonstrate the TV set to the children.

Application
A TV in some ways represents Christ. God is …

In God’s Hands

Materials
Bring in a variety of objects and tools. You might use drawing materials (i.e. rulers, colored pencils, colored paper, scissors, glue, stickers, etc)

Activity
Have everyone create something with the tools you have provided. You could ask them to use the tools to draw things that are strong. Then bring the tools back together and command the tools to …

All You Need

Materials
A Bible and a soft object to throw, such as afoam ball or a wadded-up pair of clean socks.

Activity
Have everyone stand or sit in a circle. Say: “Let’s play a game called All You Need.” I’ll begin with a statement and will throw the ball to someone in the circle. Whoever catches the ball will finish the …