The A-Mazing World It's Your Move Road Work and Trek Groups Gather in the center of the gym, welcome, introduction of guests, make announcements. For Sponsors: Which way are we moving? 1.Understand  Which Way Are We Moving Road Work & Trek Competition is an amazing thing! Like solving a puzzle, accomplishing a task can be rewarding. Man has a natural tendency to satisfy his or her ego by proving they are superior to others. It is easy to show selfishness and greed. It is this natural tendency that in many ways causes poverty, oppression, and war in the world. Trust and cooperation are essential if good deeds are to be realized. Most human relationships today, however, lack trust or cooperation. By continually growing only in a competitive manor we are overlooking a simple rule, "Do all the good you can." As a result, we may find it difficult to trust God, because we are afraid He won't keep His word, or that we are not being told the truth. But God has trusted us by making the first move sending His Son.  We have to make choices like God has, by trust or by faith, believing that surely a decision to take God at His word will result in a loving and nurturing existence between man and God. Break into Journey Groups. Moving In  Trek Needed: Two sets of flip cards with right and wrong printed on them. Play "Street Smarts" Ask for a volunteer to be interviewed on the street. Then have two contestants play side by site. Arrange the contestants next to each other. Have the interviewee leave the room with another sponsor to watch for them to come back and answer the question. Ask each contestant how he or she thinks the interviewee will respond to the question, right or wrong. Have three rounds then trade participants and play again. 1.What holiday celebrates Jesus rising from the dead?     Easter 2.How did Judas identify Jesus for the priests? Kissed Him 3.What teenager was thrown into the pit by his brothers?    Joseph 1.Which Bible character lived the longest on earth?  Methuselah  2.  What was Adam and Eve's 3rd Childs name? Seth 3.Which of the disciples was a tax collector?  Matthew Moving In Road Work  Needed: String, balloons, straight pins, tape Play "Peaceful Kingdom" There's a lot of talk about peace today. This game is designed to test the group's inclination toward it. Divide the group into six or eight persons. Give each group the same number of balloons, some straight pins, string and tape. The intent of the game is to have each group blow up balloons and tape them to a wall space assigned only to their group before any other group. Each group should appoint blowers, tiers, and a person to take the balloons to the space. DO NOT tell them what to do with the tape, pins or string. Then give each group a few minutes to get themselves together and be sure just who is doing what job. Invariably there will be an all out war on the other groups, some will hide balloons, and some will become very aggressive. After battle is nearly out of hand, stop the activity and discuss why they are doing what they are doing. Moving UP Trek Needed: Play money, a deck of cards The Experiment Divide into two groups (Don't say teams) by shuffling a deck of cards and then handing out one card to everyone in the room. Have the reds form one group on one side of the room and the blacks the other. After they are all in groups gather back the deck, shuffle and split the deck. Give half to each group. Explain: This is an experiment. Each group will have nine opportunities to choose a color, either red or black. The choices are worth money. Here's the way it works: If both groups choose black both groups will get three dollars. If both groups choose red both will lose three dollars. But, if one group chooses red and the other chooses black, the red choice gets five dollars and the black choice loses five dollars.  (Handouts) After the basic scoring procedure is explained, then tell the group that there are two simple requirements to fulfill: "To make as much money as you possibly can." "To not hurt anybody" Have the groups go to different rooms. One sponsor will remain in the center with the money. NOTE: It is important that the two groups not know what the other is doing. Each group selects a leader who brings his group's card to the sponsor in the middle when called. The sponsor in the middle will then award money as per instructions on the handout. The Game continues. After the fourth attempt at color choosing, you ask if the groups wish to negotiate. Each group picks one person from the other group to negotiate with. After a minute of negotiations and everyone is back in their groups, announce that this next choice only is worth 3 times its value (This is round five). Rounds six through nine are played as normal. Finish all six round then get together and discuss what took place and how much was made. Discuss:  ·What was your group's strategy; that is, how did you decide just what color to choose? ·Did your group fulfill the game requirements? How? ·Did you trust the other group? ·Why did (or Didn't) you want to negotiate with the other group? ·When did you decide to try and beat the other group? ·How did you treat the "minority" voice in your group? Moving UP Road Work Relay time Have several relays with two groups. Use the furniture dollies for all events. Remind the youth to keep their fingers out of the way of the wheels. The round is over when one team gets their whole team trough the course. Do not declare a winner for any round. Re-mix the team if necessary - even boys against girls - to get them to come out evenly. Tell the group that there are two simple requirements to fulfill: "To complete as many laps as you possibly can." "To not hurt anybody" 1.Make a simple obstacle course and have each team member push another around and against the other team. The pusher becomes the next rider. 2.Same thing except this time the rider must sit back words with his or her feet out like a wheelbarrow to be pushed. 3.This time try it while sitting on a big ball atop the dollies. 4.This time the rider sits any way they want but the other team member must pull the dolly.  Moving out Road Work & Trek Include the following general points in the conclusion of this lesson: 1)Both games became competition even though no mention of completion or of beating the other group was made. This shows man's natural tendency to satisfy his or her ego with being superior to others, or selfishness and greed. It is this natural tendency that in many ways causes poverty, oppression, and war in the world. 2)Trust and cooperation were essential if both groups were to benefit in the last game. Most human relationships today, however, lack trust or cooperation. As a result, we may find it difficult to trust God, because we are afraid he won't keep His word, or that we are not being told the truth. But God has trusted us by making the first move - sending His Son. We have to make choices also by trust or by faith, believing that surely a decision to take God at His word will result in a peaceful coexistence between man and God. Check out these: Jhn 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 2Cr 5:17 Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. 2Cr 5:18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 2Cr 5:19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Come Back together in the HFLC Prayer and Concerns  Road Work & Trek  Gather in the closing circle. Pray for strength and faith. Have everyone join in singing "Sanctuary" Join hands, right over left, and say the UMYF benediction.