Group Size: any number
Time: 5 minutes.
Applications: Vision, Goals, Objectives.

Materials
Pencil or Pen and sheet of paper for each participant

Activity
Say “You are going to now be given a test. Your performance on this test will determine your future in this organisation. I am going to give you a pair of words or phrases and you are to choose the correct answer from each pair and write it down.”

Read each set of choices a couple of times.
Answer any questions by simply saying “Write down the correct answer.”

1. Red or green
2. Purple or blue
3. Horizontal or Vertical
4. Stars or planets
5. 5 or 50
6. Up in the Air or Down on the ground
7. Metal or cloth

After you have finished reading the various choices, select a couple of participants and ask them read their answers out. Let them know how many they have gotten correct.

Debrief

• Ask “How did you feel about this performance test?” (frustrated, confused, didn’t make sense, not enough information, unfair)
• Ask if anybody knows the correct answers?

(The correct answers will relate to the American Flag – Change the choices based on your own national flag)

Invite the participants to imagine the national flag.

Quickly run through the choices again – with the whole group responding out loud.

DEBRIEF
What does this activity mean to you?

KEY CONCEPT: A SHARED VISION

• We tend to get frustrated when we don’t have the complete picture.
• Our choices are easy when everyone shares the same vision.
• We need to share the vision, the goal, the big picture with people when we give them tasks so that they can make the right choices when decisions arise.
• We can make the right choices by seeing which options align with the vision.

Business Application:

• Do you delegate tasks without sharing the vision of what this task will accomplish?
• How do your gifts, talents, skills and abilities contribute the the big picture in your company?

Personal Application:

• Do you have a dream, a goal for your life that guides your important decisions?
• Are your decisions decided by the whim of the moment or do they bring you closer to your dream?

Spiritual Application:

• What is your place in this world?
• Do you know the Creator’s plan for your life?

Relationships Application:

• Do you have problems with communication because you lack a shared vision?
• Do you make decisions in relationships based on your vision of what others need and want? How would this change the decisions you make?

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Old Testament Men Trivia – ©2002 – Ken Sapp
1.a Who is the oldest person in the Bible?
(Methuselah). Genesis 5:27
1.b For extra points, how old was he?
( 969)
2. Who was one of the fattest men in the Old Testament?
(Eglon, King of Moab). Judges 3:17-23
3. Who put on a goatskin disguise?
This smooth-skinned man tricked his father into giving him the blessing that had been saved for his hairy elder brother Esau by putting goatskins on his hands and part of his neck.
(Jacob) Genesis 27:1-40
4. This was one of the most talented men in the Bible. He was a super strong shepherd. He killed a lion with his bare hands. He composed music and wrote poems. He killed a giant. He was Israel’s most successful king.
(King David) 1 Samuel 17
5. One of the Old Testament judges wanted God to tell him that he would save Israel. To find out, he put a fleece outside overnight. If there was dew on the fleece but not on the ground, the answer was yes. He got his answer but he still was not sure. He then asked for dew to be on the ground but not on the fleece. This happened to whom?
(Gideon) Judges 6:36-40.
6. What father almost sacrificed his own son: Abraham, David, Lot, Aaron?
(Abraham)
7. I was very old when I became a Dad, But God had promised I’d have a son, I was the Father of Many Nations, Beginning with the Jewish one, Who am I?
(Abraham)
8. I was such a little man, That I could hardly see, And so I climbed a tree that day, To see Jesus but he saw me. Who am I?
(Zacchaeus)
9. I was the first but not the last -Many have walked this earth, But I didn’t begin the same as you –
To me no one gave birth. Who am I?
(Adam)

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Game Description
Students must find the tie that has been hidden in the room.

Game Materials
a necktie. You can also cut out a small necktie and color it.

Optimal Group Size
Any size group.

Game Venue
Anyplace

Game Preparation
None

Game Play 

1. Choose one student to be the father. This student sits in a chair at the front of the room with his or her eyes closed.
2. The tie should go beneath the chair.
3. Choose another student to remove the tie and hide it somewhere in the classroom.
4. After the tie is hidden, all students call “Daddy, Daddy, come on! Let’s go! Hurry, please. We don’t want to be late!”
5. The student turns and “discovers” his or her missing tie. He or she wants to find the tie before leaving, but has only one minute in which to do it.
6. He or she may ask up to ten yes or no questions before attempting to guess the location of the tie. (Is it up high? Is it behind something? Is it near the books? etc.)
7. If he or she guesses correctly, he or she remains the father for another turn. If he or she guesses incorrectly, the student who hid the tie becomes the father.

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Game Description
In this game, children must remember the business trips of father’s going through the alphabet.

Game Materials
None

Optimal Group Size
Any size group.

Game Venue
Anyplace

Game Preparation
None

Game Play 

1. Choose a student to begin.
2. This student says, “My father [Name] is leaving on a business trip, and he is going to [a city or country item beginning with the letter “a”].
3. The next student repeats, “ “My father [name] is leaving on a business trip, and he is going to [place listed by previous student for the letter “a”],” then adds and [a city or country beginningwith the letter “b”].
4. Students progress through the alphabet, adding a new city or country item each time.
5. Any student who forgets a place on Father’s itinerary is out.

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Game Description
In this variation of “Mother May I?” Children ask Father rather than mother for permission

Game Materials
None

Optimal Group Size
Any size group.

Game Venue
Anyplace

Game Preparation
Establish start line and finish line.

Game Play 

1. Choose one student to be the father. This student will go to the finish line.
2. All other students must go to the start line. Explain to students on start line that their goal is to cross the finish line first; however, they must ask Father’s permission for each move they make toward the finish line.
3. For example, the first student might ask, “Father, may I take four large steps?” The next student might ask, “Father, may I make five jumps?” And so forth.
4. If Father responds, “Yes, you may,” the student may proceed. If Father replies, “No, you may not,” the student must wait until next turn and make a different request.

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Game Description
In this variation of soccer or international football, youth are bound together with 3 other persons to play the game.

Game Materials
Soccerball (football) and collored strips of cloth to distinguish between teams. You may also use colored armbands or baseball caps to differentiate teams.

Optimal Group Size
Ideally a minimum of 16 persons on each team. If the group is smaller, you may want to combine them together in groups of three instead of groups of four.

Game Venue
Soccer field or large open field

Game Preparation
None

Game Play 

1. Just as a spider has eight legs, so does this soccer player.
2. Form two teams.
3. Within each team, have kids form groups of four. Give each group of four a supply of colored cloth to tie their ankles together so they form a square facing outward. They must also lock arms.
4. Play a normal game of soccer, normal rules, with each foursome acting as one player.

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Game Description
In this classic variation of hide-and-seek, youth search for the hidden persons and then join them in their hiding place.

Game Materials
None

Optimal Group Size
Any size group.

Game Venue
Preferrable a large facility with lots of places to hide.

Game Preparation
None

Game Play 

1. Break up into teams (usually pairs or trios) until everyone is part of a group. Turn off all the lights in the building, and send one team to hide. Give them enough time to hide.
2. Then, everyone goes out to find them.
3. The purpose is to find the team hiding, and then join them. The game ends when all teams are hiding together except for the last one.
4. Then, the next to hide is the first team to find the hidden group.

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Game Description
In this classic simulation game, youth learn that not everything has to be an “I win” “you lose” scenario. It can be win-win.

Game Materials
About 20 slips of paper, 2 pencils, sweets

Optimal Group Size
Minimum of 8 youth

Game Venue
Can be played just about anywhere.

Game Preparation
(You may want to put these on a poster or give a copy of these instructions to each team)
Divide the large groups into two smaller groups, and explain that an experiment is about to take place. Give the following instructions: Each group will have 9 chances to choose a colour: either RED or BLACK.
Choices are rewarded according to the following guidelines:

• If both groups choose BLACK – both get 3 sweets
• If both groups choose RED – both loose 3 sweets
• If one group chooses RED and the other BLACK – the group that chose RED get 5 sweets; and the group that chose BLACK loses 5

Two Requirements: (these must be stated clearly at the start):
1. Get as many sweets as possible
2. Do not hurt anybody

Game Play
Send the groups to opposite sides of the room and have them decide on their first choice. To make a choice the group simply decides on a colour and writes it on the piece of paper.
Then they present their choice to the facilitator.
The facilitator rewards the groups according to the instructions.
After the 4th or 5th round, ask if the groups want to negotiate – if they do, have them choose a negotiator and give the two negotiators a minute to decide on their strategy for the future choices. Then announce that the next round of choices will be worth three times as much. Continue the game until all rounds are complete.

Game Debrief

1. What was your group’s strategy? How did you decide what colour to choose?
2. How did you treat the “minority” voice in your group?
3. Did your group fulfil the two requirements? How?
4. Did you trust the other group?
5. Why did/didn’t you want to negotiate with the other group?
6. When did you decide to try and beat the other group?
7. To beat the other group did you have to emphasis one requirement over the other?

Conclusion
No mention was made of competition, beating or winning – this is our natural tendency! If both or one group became involved in competition even though no mention was made that the exercise was based on competition lines, suggest that this is our natural tendency to satisfy our ego through being superior to others, or for selfishness and greed. Ultimately this is the cause of poverty, war and oppression in the world. The Bible calls it sin!

Application
What are some areas of your lie where you can work together for the benefit of others so that all can win?

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Game Description
In this relay game, each person on a team must use a straw in thier mouth and suction to carry an object across the room and back.

Game Materials
beans or dried peas and straws for each person

Optimal Group Size
Any size group divided into teams of equal number. If a team is short a person, then have one person on that team go twice.

Game Venue
Any place with room for participants to run around.

Game Preparation
None

Game Play 

1. 1. Give each person a straw.
   2. Place a bowl of navy beans, or green peas or other small smooth round objects at the opposite side of the room.
   3. Like an aardvark sucking up ants, each person must suck through the straw so that a bean stays attached to the end and bring the bean back to his team.
   4. Any bean dropped must be retreived. You may need to reposition the bowl closer depending on how difficult you want it to be.

1. First team to each bring a pea back wins.

Game Variation
Have your participants stand or sit around a table with the bowl of beans in the center and a cup in front of each person. At the signal each person tries to remove as many beans from the bowl as possible, dropping each into his/her cup. The person to retrieve the most beans and the end of a given time wins.

Optional Game Debrief

• How is this game similar to trying to hold on to material things in life?
• What are some things you try to hold on to? What are the things you most want to have?
• At what cost would you get them?

Optional Conclusion
In this game, the things you want to hold on to, often get away. Many times the things in life we are chasing after and trying to hold on to seem to be very difficult to keep. They are always jus out of reach. or when we get them, we seem to lose them even quicker. In scripture we are told that the person who holds on to his life will lose it. The person who loses his life will find it. We are told that we should not pursue the things of this world, but the things of heaven. All the things of this world will one day pass away.

Application
What is something in your life you are holding on to, that you need to let go? Make a commitment to let go of it and place it in God’s hands this week.

Scripture
Luke 12:15-21; Matthew 10:39

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