October 29, 2009 · 2:43 pm
Time
10-15 minutes (or more, depending upon how many times you play)
Audience
Children & Youth
Description
This game is a fun and high-energy way to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. It’s played in rounds, and an individual round takes only a few minutes to play.
Scriptures
Materials
- 10-20 feet of rope
- “Friday-Sunday” dice cube pattern (You can find this on the Lesson and Material Downloads page at www.teachthem.wordpress.com in the file named “Resurrection Roll – Dice Cube.”)
- Tape
- Glue
- Scissors or knife to cut out dice cube
- Cardboard or poster board (8.5 x 11 inches)
- Optional: Small prizes for the winners – it’s possible to have multiple winners each round, so you will want to have lots of small prizes
- Bible
Preparation
- Print out the dice cube pattern.
- Glue the pattern on top of the cardboard or poster board.
- Cut out the dice cube pattern.
- Bend the dice cube sides along the lines to form the cube. (It might be helpful to lightly score the cardboard along the dice cube lines to help it to bend. Make sure to score the cardboard side and not the paper side.)
- Tape the dice cube anywhere the sides come together.
- Lay out the rope in a large circle pattern.
- Practice the script.
Procedure
Use the following script and instructions (or modify to suit your needs):
- “Jesus died on the cross on a Friday, and His followers were crushed!”
- “They believed He was the Savior, the Messiah, but now He was gone!”
- “They couldn’t believe it! They didn’t know what to do.”
- “They had put all their hopes in Jesus, and they didn’t know what to do with their lives now that He was dead.”
- “Fortunately for them and for all of us, that wasn’t the end of the story!” (Have a volunteer read Matthew 28:1-10.)
- “Imagine you were there!”
- “One moment, life has no meaning – only mourning.”
- “The next moment, all your hopes are restored – even upgraded!”
- “What you thought was a terrible defeat turns into an incredible victory!”
- “So, let’s play a game to celebrate that victory!” (Ask everyone to grab the rope and stand in a circle.)
- “I have a die (singular for dice) here that has three sides that say, ‘Friday,’ and three sides that say, ‘Sunday.’”
- “You are holding a rope that represents the tomb Jesus was buried in, and you represent Jesus.”
- “Before I roll the die, you have to decide if you think it will land on ‘Friday’ or ‘Sunday’ and choose to either be in the tomb or out of the tomb.”
- “If it lands on ‘Friday,’ you want to be in the tomb, where Jesus was after He died.”
- “If it lands on ‘Sunday,’ you want to be outside the tomb, where Jesus was after He rose from the dead.”
- “If you are in the wrong place, you are out of the game and have to leave the circle until we start a new round.”
- “I will roll the die three times, and you can choose a different place (in or out) each time or stay where you are as long as you keep being right.”
- “Whoever lasts all three rolls, wins!” (“….and gets a prize” if you are giving prizes)
- “Are you ready to play?” (Start the game by having the kids choose a position inside or outside of the rope. Then roll the die. Any kids on the wrong side of the rope are out until the next round. After three rolls, acknowledge the winners and start a new round if you wish. End whenever you’ve had enough!)
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October 15, 2009 · 3:15 am
Time
40-60 minutes (or more, depending upon how many cultural dimensions you choose to use)
Audience
Teens or adults who interact with people of different cultures or are planning to do so
Description
This game illustrates the differences between the many different cultures of the world. It borrows from the research of Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner and the writings of Craig Storti. Facilitators can benefit from having some familiarity with the different cultural dimensions before conducting the game.
The materials contain many more cultural dimensions than you probably want to cover in one game. You can pick out the ones that are most relevant to your group, or you might want to run this game at different times during a multi-day meeting.
The “Cultural Continuums – Answers” file focuses largely on Europe and Asia, because that was the context for the group for which this game was developed. However, additional flags are provided in the “Cultural Continuums – Flags” file, and the full statistics for each continuum are in the Notes section of the PowerPoint slide. You can change the flags with this information.
Scriptures
Materials
- Flag cards – one set per team (These are available in the file “Cultural Continuums – Flags” on the Lessons and Downloads page at www.teachthem.wordpress.com.)
- Answer key (This can be found in the file “Cultural Continuums – Answers” on the Lessons and Downloads page at www.teachthem.wordpress.com.)
- Rolls of masking tape (one per team)
- Projector
- Screen
- Computer
- Flipchart
- Markers
- Bible
Preparation
- Print out copies of the flag cards (one copy per team)
- Review the facilitator notes on the Notes section under each slide in the “Cultural Continuums – Answers.”
- Practice the script.
Procedure
Use the following script and instructions (or modify to suit your needs):
- “You may remember the story of the Tower of Babel.” (Ask a volunteer to read it out loud from Genesis 11:1-9.)
- “This Scripture is the birthplace of cultural diversity.”
- “Never again would mankind all speak the same language or observe the same cultural practices – at least not until Christ returns, and probably not even then will we give up the cultural practices that make us unique.”
- “So, let’s see how different we’ve become.”
- “We are going to play a game to highlight the many differences among the various cultures of the world.”
- “I will briefly describe a continuum of a cultural dimension. (A continuum is something that goes from one extreme on one end to the other extreme on the other end.)”
- “After I’ve described it, you will take a group of flags (that I’m about to hand you) and stick them to the wall in the order that you think best represents where you think that country falls on the continuum.” (Hand out sets of flag pictures and tape to each group.)
- “Then, I will show you the ‘right answers’ on the screen at the front of the room.”
- “Just so that you know, the ‘right answers’ are based on the work of some cultural experts who have been studying different cultures for many years.”
- “You may not always agree with their findings, and that’s okay. We can talk about it during the debrief.”
- “Sometimes, countries had the same ranking or rating in their studies. In this case, the countries will be shown in the same place on the continuum I show you at the front of the room.”
- “Does anyone have any questions about how the game will work?” (Answer questions.)
- “Okay, let’s play.” (Do as many cultural dimensions as you like. After each one, you might want to ask the group members to explain why they ordered the flags in the way that they did. There will always be at least one country that wasn’t part of the study. You might want to focus on these and ask each group how they made their decision in regard to these countries. When you are done with all the dimensions, have the groups discuss the following questions. (You may want to post them on a flipchart.) Allow 15-20 minutes for discussion, and then debrief as a large group.)
Debrief Questions
- What do you think about the different cultural dimensions, and where the countries landed on the continuums?
- What was surprising to you?
- Is there anything that you disagreed with? Why?
- What do these differences mean for how we work with people from different cultures?
- What will you personally do differently as a result of what you have learned?
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