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Who Am I?

Main Point:  Communicate that students can make a deep and lasting impact in their world today!

Supplies:

  • “Sit Down If” list

  • Candy for the Discussion Starter


Kids arrive: about 6:30-6:45

  • Make them feel welcome

  • Learn names and interests

  • Give newcomers a New Person form


Bring it together: about 7:15 pm  “Hey, glad to see you all here.  Welcome to ???”

Introduce newcomers:  Give them a blow-pop, skittles, or Snickers bar, etc.

Youth Challenge or Game:  

"Sit Down If"
Have everyone stand.  Read off the following items.  IF the item applies to them, they have to sit down.  The winner is the last person left standing.  Do two rounds.  You may wish to switch the items around.
    Sit down if you . . .

    Have a brown belt on                  
    Have ever been to Florida
    Are wearing New Balance Shoes              
    Didn't shower this morning
    Didn't brush your teeth this morning            
    Have a white shirt on
    Have blue eyes                      
    Have black shoes on
    Are wearing anything red                    
    Have a hair bow in their hair
    Have glasses                        
    Are wearing a coat right now
    Have braces                    
    Had homework last night
    Are in any athletics                        
    Have seen a movie in the last week.

Announcements: upcoming activities, events.

Discussion Starter:  "What would you do for candy?"

Choose students for the following challenges.  If they attempt it they get a piece of candy.

  • Sing the National Anthem
    •                 
  • Sniff someone's shoe
    •               
  • do the chicken dance
    •                           
  • Receive 2 wet-willies
    •               
  • eat spinach baby food
    •                           
  • Eat a sardine
    •               
  • act like a monkey for 10 sec.
    •                     
  • Give 10 people a high five in 5 sec.
    •               
  • Drink prune juice
                              

Break up into small groups

Small Group Discussion:

  1. Share something that you’re really lousy at doing.

  2. Everyone’s good at something.  Share something that you’re really good at doing.

  3. If you knew that you could accomplish anything in this world, what would you like it to be?  Why?

  4. Look up John 3.16 and Romans 5:8.  What do these verses say about your worth to God?

  5. Can students your age make a difference in the world?  Why or why not?

  6. Look up Philippians 4.13.  Does this verse give any age, ethnic, or gender limitations on who can make an positive, lasting difference if they have Christ in their life?

Wrap-up:  
Hold up a $20 bill.  Ask if anyone would like the $20.00.  After many students raise their hands, crumple the $20 bill and ask them, "Would you still like it?"  Wait for students to raise their hands again.  Then ask, "What if I do this," while dropping it on the floor and grinding it down into the floor with your shoe.  "Now who still would like this?"  Tell the students they have learned a valuable lesson.  No matter what you did to the money, they still wanted to have it because it didn't lose its value; it was still worth $20.  Go on to share that many times in our lives,  we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.  We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen, each one of us will never lose our value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, each of us are still priceless to those who love us.  The worth in our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but in who we are.  You are special - don't ever forget it!

Optional Wrap-ups:

  • One option to your wrap-up is to use a $1 or $5 bill and go through the object lesson above. Only at the end, offer the bill, saying, “I’ll give this to the person who is willing to share this exact same object lesson in the next 48 hours with someone else and will call me and tell me about it.”

  • To challenge them with making a difference, refer to the story of Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego in Daniel 3.  Stress that these three stood up for what they knew was right and made a difference in their country of Babylon.

  • Share with the students that as they leave the meeting today, the student leaders will be handing out a letter from God to each of them!


"A Song Written By God Just For You!"  Handout

    Psalm 139

    O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.  
    You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  
    You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
    Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.  
    You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.  
    Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
    Where can I go from your Spirit?  Where can I flee from your presence?
    If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  
    If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
    If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
    For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
    I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
    My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
    When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
    All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.  
    How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
    When I awake, I am still with you. If only you would slay the wicked, O God!  Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!  They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
    Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
    I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
    Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  
    See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

    From a YFC JV newsletter
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