WAMM

When my hubby and I took on the task of being the youth directors at our church, we decided we needed a name. After much deliberation, we came up with WAMM, We Are More Ministries. We were inspired by the song You Are More by Tenth Avenue North. We have our biggest group of boys and girls on Wednesday. Then on Sunday nights we separate them and I teach the high school and jr high girls. I have actually had this girls class for over a year now and the girls have been such a blessing on my life. Since the youth has become such a big part of our lives, we have spent a lot of time gathering ideas and I want to share them. Some things we have come up with ourselves, others we have gotten from the Internet or other people. So last night the hubby did not get off of work in time for church so I had to handle class. Luckily God had laid an idea in my heart.

We like to start with a game to get the kids excited. Sometimes this back fires as the kids get too excited and then stay that way.


Chaotic Balloons:
The aim of this balloon game is for each team to keep the balloons in the air.

I bought blue balloons for the boys and pink for the girls and I let them help blow up the balloons since I needed most of my hot air to teach.

You have the teams, I did boys vs girls on opposite ends of the room. When I say go all the balloons must be thrown into the air and cannot be held but only hit. As soon as a balloon hits the ground that balloon is eliminated.

The team with the most balloons remaining is the winner.

Our BOYS won.

Lesson: Cling to God

I first went to the store and bought 4 black and 7 white T-shirts and wrote the following on them:
White shirts: Sinner, Saved, God, Death, Repentance, Forgiveness,and then I wrote Divorce, Abuse, Finances all on one shirt.
The black ones I was gonna write Sin on but could not find a white paint pen so I just left them blank.

I then asked for 10 volunteers and had them put the shirts on (except Saved). I had the volunteer with the sinner shirt stand up in the middle of the room, and explained to the class that we are all born sinners.

For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God Romans 3:23

I then asked my volunteer if she wanted to be saved and she said yes, so I read John 3:16, and gave her the saved shirt and then had my volunteer with the God shirt on stand in the middle of the room and I introduced them. I asked them how to maintain fellowship with God after salvation, and I was so proud of them when they answered prayer and reading your bible.

Then I had my black shirt volunteers stand up and had my saved volunteer walk over to them for a minute, God followed, and then walk away and then I had her walk over to them again but this time they followed her, surrounded her and then made their way in between Her and the God volunteer. I had them stand in a straight line in the middle of the room in this order: Saved, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, God.

Next I had my Divorce, Abuse, Finance volunteer stand up and come over to my Saved volunteer and had her look very sad and look back like she was looking for God. I then had my Death volunteer go to her and I had fall to her knees in despair.

I asked the group, "What do you need when life and this world throw things at you like death of a loved one, parents divorce, abuse, financial problems and so on." They answered, "God." I then asked them where is He? How is she suppose to get to him? What is in the way? They answered, "Sin."  I asked them how to get rid of sin?

I then explained to them about asking for forgiveness Acts 26:18, Ephesians 1:7 Then I told them that not only do you have to ask forgiveness but you also have to rid your life of the things standing between you and God. Matthew 4:17, Acts 3:19,

I had my Saved volunteer ask the Forgiveness and Repentance volunteers to come help her. They came to the middle of the room and moved the sin volunteers out of the way, And the fellowship with God was restored!!!!

Our youth group plans to hold services on a Sunday night at the end of this month and I think we may do this as a skit for the whole church.

I then showed them this video on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyheJ480LYA

The night went really well!!!!