Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

Here's what we did in our SEALs assembly about change today... We wanted to focus on the idea that, when we are going through changes, God will help us to do things we couldn't do by ourselves.  With Him we can do more than we ever imagined possible! Game: Two teams of two children are needed.  At one end of the hall put person A from each team and at the other end, put person B.  Give person A a flame shape cut out from paper and a straw.  Give person B some glue and the outline of a person's head and shoulders.  Person A is not allowed to touch the flame with their hands and person B is not allowed to move their feet.  Have a race with person A blowing the flame across the floor to person B who then has to pick it up and stick it to the head of the outline shape.  The winners are the first team to stick the flame down.  The point of the game is that neither person could complete the task by themselves- they needed help! Story: We acted ...

Last week we went into school to do a SEALS assembly about changes based on the story of Abraham being called by God to leave his homeland and journey to a distant land (Genesis 12). We started with a game... We got 10 yellow ball pool balls, 5 red and 5 blue  and shared them out as follows into 3 baskets spaced out across the front of the hall: Left basket: 5 yellow balls, middle basket 5 red and 5 blue balls, right basket 5 yellow balls. 2 volunteers stood by the left hand and right hand baskets.  When I shouted 'go', they had to change their balls one by one until the left basket had 5 red balls and the right basket had 5 blue balls.  The first to change all of their balls was the winner.  All of the children in the hall were cheering on their favourites and from this game we introduced the idea of 'change'. We then talked about God calling Abraham to leave everything behind to journey to an unknown place (mirroring what would happen after the summer w...