Matthew 8:19, John 12:26
Activity
Play a game of “Simon Says”? It’s an easy game. You do all the things Simon says you may do, but if Simon does not say that you can do something and you do it, then you are out.
Debrief
“Simon says” is an easy game as long as you follow. Following is the key …
Objective
Making wise decisions involves knowing scripture.
Preparation
Draw a grid representing floor tiles on a piece of paper. You may choose to have a 15 by 15 square grid or larger. Mark a path through the grid of squares with each successive step touching the one before it either adjacent or diagonally. Count the number of squares for the …
Materials
Stamp ink pad, small pieces of paper for each youth’s thumbprint.
Preparation
If your youth are not skittish about having their thumbprints taken, have each youth create a thumbprint on a piece of paper. Photocopy these into a grid and have a contest to see who can identify which thumbprint belongs to who. Whoever correctly identifies the most thumbprints …
Instructions
See how many of the objects listed in the following scripture verses you can find. You have 1 hour in which to search for the items. (Body parts like “hand” don’t count)
For each minute you are late you are penalised by one item so that the group that finds the most items (-#minutes they are late) wins! In …
Materials
Obtain some flexible rulers or make them from cardboard. As an added variation, make a couple of the rulers with incorrect measurement markings.
Preparation
Make a list of measurements of various items found in the youth room or throughout the church.
Activity
Participants must scour the room and find the objects that match the measurements… first to get them …
Materials
Guitar that is intentionally “out of tune”
Activity
1. Choose a song that everyone is familiar with and begin singing it with a guitar that is badly “out of tune”. Participants are sure to stop you or say something about the “out of tune” guitar.
2. Get someone to tune only the first guitar string using a tuning fork, …
Materials
Set up a checker board or chess board with grains of wheat according to the following story.
Illustration
Some time ago there was a display at the museum of Science and industry in Chicago. It featured a checkerboard with 1 grain of wheat on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, and 8, 16, 32, …
Activity
Scatter about the room objects that represent various countries and geographic localities. Have youth try to find as many of the objects as possible and identify the countries they might represent.
Some possibilities are:
ice-iceland, pyramid – Egypt, pizza – Italy, hammer – russia, flags from various countries, tulip – Holand, Elephant – India, Bhudda – China/ Asia, french …
Central Truth
God wants us to help when we see others in trouble
Materials
1. Large open area…
2. Identifiers for participants as follows:
white armband – sheep
Black armband – wolf
Large Doggie bone on a string – Sheep Dog
Scripture
Read the 23rd psalm or have a participant quote it. Sometimes we call the 23rd Psalm “the Good …
After William Carey, the Father of Modern Missions was well established in his pioneer missionary work in India, his supporters in England sent a printer to assist him. Soon the two men were turning out portions of the Bible for distribution. Carey had spent many years learning the language so that he could produce the scriptures in the local dialect. …