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No? I told you to! Go to www.simplyyouthministry.com and get a download of “Meet the Prodigals.” ITS ONLY $9.95!!! How wrong could you go? Read the post before this one for the reaons why.
Here’s are a few promised programming ideas that work great for small (or large) groups:
1) Prayer Stations – the story is full of multi-sensory moments. Set up stations where your kids can touch, taste, smell, hear, see parts of the story. Ideas could include a carrying a heavy suitcase, hands prints from a mud pile, taste a party cake, something that smells REALLY bad…you get the idea. Prayer stations work really well for small size groups because it doesn’t matter how many kids participate. Its all about them one-on-one with God anyway.
2) Rings on the finger: After the son comes back home, the father gives him the family ring. Have a “Come to Jesus” time and make rings available as a memory-maker from the night. To top it off, use a father-figure dressed in costume to place the rings on each student’s finger.
3) Music choices: SO many good songs to fit this theme like Daughtry’s “Going Home” or “???” (What WAS the name of that song from Thursday night of Workcamp? Just can’t think of it now but I’ll get back with it.) And of course, there’s the drama so many youth groups are doing now, “Everything” by Lifehouse. Good stuff.
There’s 5 Sundays in August and 5 segments with discussion ideas in this series on the download. SO easy to plan in the dog-days of summer.
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There’s also Jeremy Camp’s “I’ll Take You Back.” Amazing video.