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Continue reading →: Walks of Life (ICEBREAKER)
Time 10-15 minutes Description This icebreaker uses flip-flops, slippers or shoes to pair people up and have them describe a place they have been, want to go or where something significant happened. Materials o Pairs of flip-flops, slippers or shoes (enough for each person in the group to get…
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Continue reading →: Review Chips (REVIEW)
Time 20 minutes Audience Children, youth, adults Description This review activity uses Learning Chips from Kagan (www.kaganonline.com) to debrief just about any learning exercise. Each chip (similar to a poker chip) has a question on it (e.g., “What did you learn that was new?” or “What questions do you…
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Continue reading →: The Mafia Game (GAME)
Audience Children, Teens, Adults Time 20-30 minutes Description This game shows the negative impact of distrust and lack of role-clarity on collaboration within a team. Participants are assigned a secret role to play (Mafia, Police, Doctor or Townspeople), and “good” and “evil” try to eliminate each other. It is…
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Continue reading →: Burnout (OBJ LESSON)
Time 10-15 minutes Description This object lesson teaches that when we try to do ministry in our own power, we may be able to spread light for some time, but we will eventually burn out. Only by continually renewing our power source (i.e., by allowing ourselves to be filled with…
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Continue reading →: Tool, Test or Territory? (CHALLENGE)
Time 15-20 minutes Description This Challenge looks at the events of Joseph’s life and asks whether God was using each one as a Tool (to shape Joseph), a Test (to reveal the quality of his heart) or new Territory (to give him more ministry for the Lord). Scriptures Genesis…
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Continue reading →: Potiphar Says (CHALLENGE)
Time 10-15 minutes Description This Challenge teaches that we don’t always get to choose our circumstances, but we always get to choose our attitude about those circumstances. It highlights Joseph’s way of handling his enslavement to Potiphar in Genesis 39:1-20. The activity is based on the game of Simon Says.…
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Continue reading →: Reflecting God’s Glory (OBJ LESSON)
Time 10-15 minutes Description This object lesson teaches that we have no light of our own but that we are called to reflect God’s light to the world. It uses the story of Moses’ glowing face when he came down from Mount Sinai after meeting with God to make the…
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Continue reading →: 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 fail in order to make the point about teamwork. By…
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Continue reading →: Let Go, Let God, Get Free! (CHALLENGE)
Time 10-15 minutes Description This Challenge teaches how bitterness, unforgiveness, hatred and resentment create a trap for us and how forgiveness and turning things over to God (especially when we are having a hard time forgiving in our own power) gets us free from the trap. It uses Chinese finger…
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Continue reading →: Joseph and Jesus (CHALLENGE)
Time 10-15 minutes Description This Challenge uses a two-sided puzzle, with the image of Joseph on one side and the image of Jesus on the other. It makes comparisons between Joseph (of Genesis) and Jesus and shows how Joseph was a preview (or “type” or “shadow”) of Jesus that helps…
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I’m Michael
I’ve been teaching kids about the Bible for more than 25 years. Teaching Them is where I share my lessons, games, and skits.
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