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We are in process of constucting the site and transfering the contents of this blogsite to the new blog! Praise God for His contiual blessings!

Youth Ministry Tips [2/14/11]

YOUTH GROUP

Which is more important to you–your identity as a Christian or your denominational affiliation? How are these identities similar/different? Interview people of different ages before opening it for group discussion. Use this activity to affirm your denomination, not to put it down. It can also be quite instructional, but don’t revert to lecturing. If your group is considered to be “non-denominational,” make it a contrast of Christianity with world religions instead of a single denomination with Christianity.

SERVICE ACTIVITY

Here’s a service activity that requires a lot of sensitivity. Attend a funeral in which you know there won’t be very many people–check and get clearance from a local funeral home. Prepare your youth in advance by reading the obituary of the deceased person as well as passages like1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, John 11, 1 Corinthians 15:51-57. Invoke an awareness in the youth that death is an enemy that will eventually be destroyed. The purpose of attending the funeral is to support those grieving. Listen and show respect.

SOCIAL ACTIVITY

Mingle. It’s a game (also called clumps). Assemble people in a somewhat crowded space and have them minglewith one another. The leader shouts out a number (“five”) and people form groups of five (holding hands or arms around each other–you decide). Those not in groups of five move to the perimeter and those remaining begin to mingle again until another number is called. Do this until everyone is out, then start again. Have a few referees to help count the numbers in each group.

SMALL GROUPS

You may have used ACTS as a pattern for prayer: (A for Ask; C for confession; T for thanksgiving; S for supplication). Use the acronym PRAY as a road map for praying. P is for Praise (brag about God), R is for Repent (confession time), A is for Ask (your needs and wants), Y is for Yield (give all of these elements to God instead of taking charge yourself). This may be done individually or as a group.

Basic Photoshop Tutorial Lesson 5 - Tagalog

iDREAM’s Creative team is led by Dennis Lagang. As a testing phase, Dennis has prepared a few basic on the spot Photoshop tutorials as a prerequisite to future Tips and Trick of media tutorial. iDREAM has arranged a series of tutorials ranging from Photoshop/Gimp, Soundbooth/Calkwalk/Audacity, Premiere, Movie Maker, PowerPoint, and Aftereffects. These of course will follow as time goes on, but will be offered in Live Tutorial during Dare2ACT events or in Leaders Huddle programs.

Too Comfortable

We know that God wants to bless us. Better home. Better life. Higher salaries. Make us happy. Give us comforts in life we never had before. He is such a wonderful God. Right?

• Have you ever been changed by a comfortable message?
• Have you ever been healed by a comfortable prayer?
• Has anyone ever been transformed by a comfortable altar call?
• Has there ever been a soul born again and discipled via comfortable means?
• Has there ever been a financial miracle not preceded by uncomfortable and sacrificial giving?
• Has comfortable worship ever launched you into his presence for long term transformation?

We need to rid ourselves of this “the will of God is comfortable, pleasing, smooth sailing” mentality!!
We are crying out for comfort! We like our salaries, our vehicles, our clothes, our styles, our ideas, our fashions – AND GOD SAYS WE ARE POOR, NAKED, AND LUKEWARM!!

Are you to comfortable for God?

Unlucky Me

A few weeks ago, while doing errands for a friend’s wedding I encountered what seemed like a bad predicament.   In my hast that morning to do the assignments given me, I failed to put my wallet in my pocket or get the lose change from the pants I had worn the day before. I did though have the money needed to purchase the items I was assigned to get for the wedding.  As I was paying for the items, it suddenly dawned on me that I didn’t have my wallet.  There I was 6 or 7 train stations from my point of origin and to get there would cost 15 pesos. I dug into my backpack and was joyously relieved to find 18 pesos. Feeling very lucky,  I walked to the train station, my precious 18 pesos in hand.  As I was crossing the street to enter the station’s terminal my arm was bumped and a 5 peso coin flew out of my hand, and began rolling away.  In disbelief I scampered after the rolling coin. As I was about to grab it, it rolled into the sewer.  What luck, now I was 2 pesos shy of getting on the train.  I had to walk two train stations over to grab a train worth 12 pesos.
 
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