Youth Fun!

Last Friday, we played the Human Machine game with the entire youth group. It was so much fun, and I wanted to share it with you here! We had four groups of 4-5 kids, with our new student leaders acting as group leaders (since they were already familiar with how the game worked). I gave them a list of possible machines and 1 minute to choose. Then they practiced and performed their machines for the rest of the group. I recorded each on on my camera, and I'm posting them here for your viewing enjoyment!

This first video was Sandy's group, which performed a TV/DVD player with a music video playing on the TV. When I asked for volunteers to go first, she jumped at the chance. Her group consisted of her and Beto as the TV screen with her sister Mili acting as the DVD player; Pedro played the owner of the DVD player; Riki was tagged with the job of being in the music video that shows on the screen. In the video Pedro asks Riki if he is the guy from the song "Riki Take My Hand" by Fishers of Youth (our local youth rap band). He says he is at which point Pedro raves about the song and decides to play the DVD with the music video.

Martin's group was next, and they made a mixer (with dual beaters, like the hand-held kind). They even went so far as to have the chord plugged into an outlet! The members of the group are: Martin as the base/motor, Karla & Adolpho as the two beaters, Gollito is lying down as the chort, and Lorenzo is the outlet. Very creative!

The third group was Chuy's group. And they also did the TV/DVD player with a movie playing: The Matrix. This group consists of Ana as the viewer (sitting on the other side of the screen from me), Ruben as the DVD Player, and Chuy and Roger play the TV screen/movie. They act out a slow-mo fight scene from Matrix. Hillarious!

The final group was Jose Luis's group, and they acted out an iron. There's no motion, but they did a good job making the shape of the iron and even have the chord running from the back. This group consists of Julio and Chuyeke as the bottom of the iron (lying on the ground), Mirna as the iron handle, and Jose Luis as the chord. Again, very creative!!!

All the kids had a good time (as you can tell from the laughter and chatter), and they were much more responsive and involved in the rest of the evening, even during the lesson, which was taken from Nehemiah (since we had just spent so much time studying it on the retreat). Steve talked about how the wall in Nehemiah can be symbolic of the wall that we put up around our hearts to protect ourselves from the enemy, and he challenged them to seek out those vulnerable places in their walls and seek the Lord in fortifying them so as to strengthen their faith, their relationship with the Lord, and their Christian walk through this world. It was a very fun evening. Stay tuned for more fun youth group game videos!