Ignite

Tonight was our first Ignite meeting after Easter.  So after the food which consisted of 8 pizza's 2kg chips and ice cream for 11 we asked the children about their Easter break.  Some had been on Christian camps and holidays and had great experiences while others had just been out for days while others rested watched telly etc.  We started the evening off with a very messy,silly, daft game which involved a Jaffa Cake biscuit - the children had to eat all the biscuit and chocolate off the biscuit leaving only the centre Jaffa bit and the first one to stick a clean Jaffa on the forehead won - fun was had by all and wet wipes then filled the room!  I then gave out copies of Psalm 23 but each copy was from a different version of the Bible NIV, CEV, BBE, MSG, AMP, NLT, GNB, ERV I then read a line at a time of the Psalm from the NRSV then each version was read out after me line by line.  We then gave out pens and a paper grid with 8 lines on it and explained that we were now going to write our own Psalm on the sheet line by line but with a twist after every line the top of the paper was folded over and handed to the person on the left and they wrote the next line and so on and so on until all 8 lines had been filled in.  On the last hand over the person would read the 'new Psalm'.  The results were fabulous and very moving, considering that they are children aged from 10 to 13 what they wrote down was awesome.  I intend to scan each Psalm and produce a little book for them all and I will try to put it on our website.  After this we looked again at Psalm 23 and went through it line by line and asked them what they thought of each line.  To end our time we asked who had things to pray for and spent 10 mins or so praying before parents came to take them home.