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Students Arrive:
Bring it Together: (about 15 minutes after start time) "Hey, glad to see you all here. Welcome to INSERT NAME OF YOUTH GROUP!” Introduce New People: Give students a Blow-pop, Skittles, or Snickers bar, etc. Youth Challenge: Choose an anywhere game or crowd breaker from our “Games” page (CLICK HERE) Invite two students to volunteer and challenge one another. (Soda Slam, Surgical Glove Blow-up, Joust, or just a burp contest. Be creative!) Announcements: Upcoming activities, events Discussion Starter: Have students take turns reading Joshua 4.4-9 and 19-24 vv.4-9 - So Joshua called together the twelve mean he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.” So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down. Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day. vv.19-24 – On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of Jordan. He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.” Break up into small groups. Small Group Discussion:
Wrap-up: Take a moment and think about what your legacy is so far. Ask yourself, is there anything you’d like to change? Take a few minutes to write down what you want your legacy to be by completing the statements on the piece of paper I’m passing out, including what changes (if any) you need to make in order to achieve your desired legacy. Leaders: Play a worship cd quietly in the background. Once everyone’s written out their thoughts, have them put their papers in the time capsule you’ve made. Let each person sign it with a color permanent marker. Announce that you will seal it securely and keep this in a special place, (if you have an office at the church, preferably where anyone can see it when they visit your office), not to be opened until one year from today. Plan a special night when this or a related topic will be revisited a year from now when you’ll open the time capsule and read everyone’s “legacy note”. Optional Scriptures, Points, or Questions:
Written by Tim Mayfield |
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