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Youth Camp - Backwards

Students will navigate across a room looking into a mirror

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Youth Camp - Backwards

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  1. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Youth Camp - Backwards Students will navigate across a room looking into a mirror www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  2. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com • IntroductionDo we live life looking to what lies ahead or looking back? • Game Materials • Hand held mirrors (or better – rear view mirrors from a car) • Obstacles www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  3. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Game PreparationPlace obstacles randomly distributed around the game play area Game PlayEveryone must walk BACKWARDS from one side of the area to the other using only mirrors to see. You can do this as a relay race between teams or as individual participants. www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  4. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com • VariationsAllow someone else to hold the mirror while a participant races forward. • Take it to the next level • Was it difficult to move forward while looking backward? Why? • What are some of the difficulties faced when we are focused on looking back? • How is this activity similar to focusing on our past and future? • What lessons can we learn? www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  5. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com DebriefIf you have ever driven a car, you can glance from time to time in the rear view mirror. As we move forward we regularly glance at it to keep us aware of what is behind us. The past makes us more knowledgeable and wiser. And in that regard, the past is good. But if you spend all your time looking in the rear view mirror you are sure to meet a disaster ahead. The same is true with life. www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  6. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com We can learn some incredible lessons from looking back to the past. Someone has said that if you refuse to look to the past you are doomed to repeat it’s errors. We can learn from the past to avoid making mistakes ahead. But past failures can also prevent us from moving forward and sometimes we have difficulty seeing beyond those failures to a brighter future. www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  7. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com The past can be good or bad.. We can be content with our past accomplishments as easily as we can live with regret for our past mistakes. We can look back to reproduce the success we have experienced. But we cannot be content living in the past with past successes. We will never grow and move forward. “Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” —Luke 9:62, NIV www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  8. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com If you have ever mowed the grass with a lawnmower and then looked back, you’ll discover that you have often mowed in a crooked line. The key to mowing a straight line is to look ahead to a target or goal and move toward it. When you are mowing the lawn it is not so bad, because you can correct it by mowing over your mistake. When plowing a field, things are different. If you have plowed a crooked furrow in the field, you have to keep plowing crooked furrows to match your first rows. A person who plows has to keep his eyes fixed straight ahead on a goal or he’ll mess up the whole field. www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  9. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Paul said: “…One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:13-14) Paul chose the call of God in Christ as his goal to fix his eyes upon. With our eyes fixed upon Christ we will be able to keep our life straight. Don’t focus on the Past! Look ahead! Look to Christ! www.CreativeScavengerHunts.com

  10. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Camp Curriculum - Whale of a Tale Bible Studies based on the book of Jonah Only. This youth camp curriculum was designed to teach the basic truths of obedience in addition to evangelism in the context of a Biblical character. The advantage of going through a book and looking at one man's story is that we see not only the teaching but the example. It becomes much more real! -> Tell me about “Whale of a Tale” www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/order5.html

  11. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Creative Youth IdeasCamp Bible Study Series“Who Do You Say that I AM?” Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do others say that I am?" It was easy to answer because it required no conviction, no commitment, and no risk. But then he follows that question with another, "Who do YOU say that I am?" -> Tell me about “Who Do You Say that I AM?” www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/whodoyousay.html

  12. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Creative Youth IdeasYouth Camp Bible Study Series“Fruit Of the Spirit” Live the Fruitful, Abundant Life Jesus Promised. Great for youth camps or weekly Youth Bible Study. There are 7 Primary Bible study Sessions in the series. -> Tell me about “Fruit Of the Spirit” www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/fruitofthespirit.html

  13. www.CreativeYouthIdeas.com Camp Curriculum - The Great Adventure "The Great Adventure" is western themed Bible study series loosely based around the song of the same name by Steven Curtis Chapman. It was initially written for a large Texas Church to use for their Summer Youth Camp but has since then proven popular around the world. -> Tell me about “The Great Adventure” www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/order12.html

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