Category Archives: Problem solving
Proactivity (GAME)
Audience Teens, Adults Time 30 minutes Description This game helps participants to recognize the need for being proactive in addressing problems rather than procrastinating, hoping things will change or avoiding the problems altogether. Participants will make decisions about which problems … Continue reading
Filed under Decision making, Games that Teach, Initiative, Priorities, Problem solving
Courage of Your Convictions (EXERCISE)
Purpose This exercise challenges participants to make decisions and defend them to their peers. They will go through several stages of defending their decisions and then coming to consensus. At the end, they will be able to score themselves based … Continue reading
Filed under Choices, Consensus, courage, Decision making, exercise, leadership, Problem solving
Garbage Collector (QUICK DRAMA)
DESCRIPTION This short drama highlights our tendency to not trust God with the garbage in our lives. Often, prayer is a last resort after we have tried in every way to fix the problem ourselves. God is waiting for us … Continue reading
Filed under acceptance, Confession, drama, forgiveness, prayer, Problem solving, Quick Drama, Repentance, Sin, skit
Parking Lot (GAME)
Time 15-20 minutes Description This game forces team members to work together in order to solve logic puzzles. Team members will work puzzles representing cars parked irregularly in a square parking lot. There is only one way out, and they … Continue reading
Filed under Collaboration, creativity, Game, Problem solving, teamwork
Building the Church – GAME
Audience Teens, Adults Time 30 minutes Description This game helps participants to recognize the need for effective collaboration/teamwork when working to build up or serve the Church. It is a “Gotcha” type of activity that sets up the participants to … Continue reading
Filed under Church, Collaboration, competition, Game, Problem solving, team, teamwork
Project Management Series – Nehemiah (DEVOTION)
This series of devotions is designed to be completed over several days. Devotion – Project Management Series (Nehemiah) Project Initiation & Planning In your groups, read the following Scriptures. Then answer the questions below. Nehemiah 1-2 What steps did … Continue reading
God Doesn’t Waste Anything (OBJ LESSON)
Time 10-15 minutes Audience Children, Teens, Adults Description This object lesson teaches about how God brings good things out of bad and uses the metaphor of turning lemons into lemonade. Scriptures Romans 8:28 Galatians 5:22 Materials Several cow patties … Continue reading
Filed under blessing, Challenges, Change, Choices, Conflict Resolution, Fruit of the Spirit, God's Plan, Healing, Hope, Object Lesson, Problem solving, Solutions, test, tool, Training
GAME – Symptoms, Sources, Solutions
Audience Teens, Adults Time 20-30 minutes Description This game helps participants to understand a simple problem-solving model and to remember that we should always look for the Sources of the problem before we try to implement Solutions. Scriptures Isaiah 5:1-30 … Continue reading
Needs Analysis (DEVOTION)
As a group, read the following Scriptures, and use the form to do a needs analysis of the situation. Matthew 17:14-20 Mark 9:14-29 Luke 9:37-43 Symptoms What are the main issues? What isn’t working well? What is obvious about the … Continue reading
