Ignite

Last night we had our Ignite group round.  After eating our way through 5 pizza's and a large bag of fries followed by ice cream we played a game.  The game was designed to test their hearing, as one person was sat in the middle of the group with a blind fold on, the rest handed round a bunch of keys.  The middle person was to listen and try to work out where the keys where in the group.  This led to the video which was about blind Bartimaeus.  Following the video we asked them what they thought about what Jesus had done.  Then we blind folded someone again and set them off walking towards one of the group.  The walk should have been straight however the rest of the group moved around just like the crowd had done in the story and bumped into the blind folded person sending them off course.  Eventually they got there.  The point was that there are times when people get in our way and we can hear Jesus calling but we get pushed aside by others around us.  We then sat round in a circle with a ball of string.  We started to pass the string round the group and whenever a person got it they had to say thank you to God for something, then as it went a second time they had to thank God for something in creation and finally they had to say sorry for something but not speak it out loud.  In the end we created a prayer web.  As holiday club is getting closer we decided that we would ask the children to video themselves talking about Jesus.  So we gave them the cameras and off they went - they said what Jesus means to them and what their favourite bible story is.  Next we introduced them to the memory verses for the week and asked them to think of interesting ways in which we could display them to the children.  Next week we will be taking some pictures of them.  We closed with a time of chatting to God.