Materials
Collect plastic eggs of a single color for each team of youth. If you want to have three teams you will need three colors of eggs. Take your favorite Easter Scripture Verse and cut it into the same number of pieces as you have eggs of a single color.
Activity
Have teams collect the easter eggs of their own …
Ingredients
1 cup whole pecans, 1 teaspoon vinegar, 3 egg whites, pinch salt, 1 cup sugar, 1 large plastic zip bag, wooden spoon, mixing bowl, cookie sheet, wax paper, tape, Bible.
Directions
Preheat your oven to 150 degrees Celsius.
1. Place the pecans in a large plastic zip bag and let the youth beat them with the wooden spoon to …
Materials
A Rose
Activity
1. Pass around a beautiful rose, with the thorns still intact, to the youth. Talk about how fragrant and pleasing it is.
2. Next bruise some of the rose petals and point out the thorns. Jesus Body was bruised for our iniquities and a crown of thorns was placed on his head.
3. Now Enlist someone …
Needed
A large open area. An empty field works best, but a large room can also be used.
Set the stage
Remind the youth that when Jesus was betrayed by Judas, the disciples were frightened for their lives. The disciples were afraid they might be arrested if they were identified as followers of Jesus.
Activity
Form two teams of disciples. …
Materials
A piece of candy or reward for each participant.
Directions
Promise a prize to those that win this game!
Form groups of three. Based upon different criteria one person will be told to “get lost” To begin, have youth alphabetize their first names and tell the person with his/her name closest to “A” to “Get lost!” Those who are …
Materials
Tons of water balloons and a group of youth.
Preparation
Separate the youth into two or three groups, depending on how many you have and give them a t-shirt. Have them put their arms in the shirt and through the arm holes, but don’t let them put it on any furthur. They will use the shirts to catch the …
One key to effective teaching is concentration on one “big idea.”
Like a magnifying glass on a hot summer day, concentration turns ho-hum teaching into fiery hot teaching. It is the teacher’s job to select what is really important to teach and converge all of the teacher’s energy on that.
Too often the reason our students don’t get things is …
Preparation
1. Get a large group of youth together and split them into two teams.
2. Give the members of each team a colored cloth to use as an armband so that they can easily identify friendlies and foes. (You can also use different colors of waterguns to identify teams.)
3. Give each person a water gun, a string, and …
Materials
Give a clear marble to each student and ask them to look through it. The image of whatever they are looking at will be upside down.
Use this to introduce Romans 12:2—”Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Our faith can cause us to turn the things of the world …
So many of the sports we play today involve little round objects which we hit, kick, drive or dribble toward a goal. We have basketballs, golf balls, tennis balls, and soccer balls, just to name a few.
Many men my age prefer golf. With golf, the objective is to a hit a little ball into a little hole from half-way …