Possible Holiday Club daily timetable
8.30 British team meet for final preparation
9.15 Romanian team arrive
9.30 Joint team meeting for prayer and briefing
10.00 Children arrive?
10.00 - 11.00 Evangelistic teaching input
11.00 Refreshments
11.02 – 12.30 Crafts / other activities
12.30 – 3.15 Lunch / siesta
3.15 Meet
3.30 – 4.45 Sports
4.45 – 4.55 Refreshments
4.55 – 5.30 Reinforcement of morning talk / worship / testimony
5.30 Children leave?
5.30 – 6.00 Joint prayer meeting / feedback / tidy up
6.00 – 8.00 British team meet to prepare next days programme
NB REGISTRATION
Its important to register names, addresses and ages of children. Perhaps use a badge making activity for this.
Will need larger time slot first day – but expect new children every day?
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Mini Olympics
Football
Relay games
Scavenger hunt
Craft & activities : woollen puppets, painting stores, making cards, game and puzzle books, dot to dot, card games, board games, jigsaw puzzles etc.
Drama competition
Non-stop cricket
Rounders / softball
Widegames
Talent contest
Walk
Coach trip?
Volley ball (splogs?)
Table tennis
Memory verses
LOTS OF PRIZES
It might be a good idea to write down in Romanian some choruses for any groups who lack musicians or for any places in Romania where choruses are not well known. Yvonne has the words to many.
IDEAS FOR SHORT
TALKS AND SKETCHES (RANDOM)
4 sketches involving typical sins:
e.g. anger - 2 people watching different TV channels – conflict and pushing
greed - chocolates / scoffing / sick!
jealousy - boy / girl type sketch
selfishness - playing and not letting another join iin
Sins could be written on paper and pinned up or written on balloons. The paper or balloons can act as a barrier to God. Someone tries to get to God through the barrier, its impossible, person becomes upset. How is it possible to reach God?
Enter JC who enters the world perfect. Man becomes angry with this perfect man and puts him on the cross with all sins on him. JC dies - bursts balloons or rips up paper or burns it - then hugs person who was trying to get to God.
A wooden cross is needed - act out death of Jesus, mocking, stripping, whipping, carrying cross, nailing, breathing difficulties etc.
A chair with a sign saying ‘Do not touch’ - someone comes along, sees it laughs and toys with the chair and almost but doesn’t touch it. Laughing all the time. He then accidentally touches sit and gets stuck to it. Tries to free himself and fails. Other parts of him get stuck in his attempts to free himself.
Person 2 does same and also ends up stuck, then person 3.
Finally a christian comes along and prays and gradually each one becomes unstuck. The back of the chair has a sign saying SIN which is then revealed to the audience.
Magic candle - light never goes out - Jesus is with us always
Use a large condensed poster which is unfurled a piece at a time as the themes of creation are disclosed.
Sketch of Adam and Eve’s part of the story showing Adam’s loneliness before and satisfaction after creation of Eve.
Man and God on opposite sides of ravine, man hanging off the cliff side in attempt to get to God, cross bridges the gap.
Put water in a jar half full and ask how much love does God have for us? Go on to ¾ full and then fill the jar to indicate the amount of love - punch line is to have a bowl under the jar and say that the jar is continuously full of God’s love and pouring over into the bowl. (Running over?)
Put out a banquet - with an invitation to come but YOU must choose to accept it.
Holy Spirit use a puppet, lifeless until a hand empowers it.
Service wash some feet!
Faith Blindfold a volunteer and ask if he/she has faith from behind person. Ask them to fall back into your arms. Repeat but do from in front of volunteer (having placed another leader behind in secret!)
Armour of God Get a volunteer to dress up in a toga, shield, breast plate, shoes helmet belt and sword (e.g. blanket, pan lid, tray etc)
When discussing shield fire water at volunteer from a water pistol!
Sketch - man at bench reading newspaper - 2 others join him but ignore him despite his attempts to get involved. Another person joins and also ignores first man. They then leave and the first man falls off the bench. Point? Holy spirit is needed for all to get along?
Glass of water - one small drop of ink eventually colours the whole glass. A small wooden cross (and a sterilising tablet) will remove the colour if stirred into the beaker of sin water. The cross take sup our sin.
Act out this incredibly important story illustrating God’s forgiveness.
Reality dramas Act out what it was like being a witness to any important event in Jesus life - to bring out relevance of story more clearly.
Get children to put 1 flower each into a wire mesh which surrounds a wooden cross as a symbol of new life.
Bowl of gunge in which is buried some treasure (money in a plastic bag) Ask for volunteers to reach in and collect it. A leader acting as JC does it and brings good out at end ?
Jesus take our place on the cross
Plate of foam - volunteer asked 3 questions. If any of the 3 answered wrongly gets the foam in his face, If correct goes in the leaders face. Make sure he gets one wrong! You are about to put the foam in his face when someone from the audience volunteers to take the punishment for him. (like Jesus)