LAST DZ NIGHT FOR 2008!!!! :)

Yay!!!! The end of another fantastic year.

We finished DZ 2008 with a bang ...... a yum BBQ dinner and a fun evening filled with different challenges.

Here's a few photos to see what fun we had!!!!


Thanks everyone for being part of DZ this year. We've had a fun year!!! Have a great and fun holiday. We'll be looking forward to seeing you when school goes back next year..

Lots of love
From the DZ leaders

and for some photos of OUR FLOAT ....

US and the float..... while we were waiting.

DROPZONE'S igloo

our snowman

our cute pengins

going down main street...

THE WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

and for some photos of OUR FLOAT ....

Christmas Parade

Hi all,

In November we worked on the float for the christmas parade. Our theme was snow and ice and the message is LET GOD MELT YOUR HEART. Just as snow melts for the sun, God can melt your ice cold heart towards Him and let it glow warm in a relationship with Him. Do not resist the calling: "My son, my daughter, give Me your heart."

The float was a great success with DropZone receiving the first prize in the non-business catagory!!

Here are some photos of the preparation for the parade and the finished float in the parade.

Wacky Toilet Night

Hey, Hey

We had sooo much fun on Friday night. As leaders we decided to encourage you to come to DZ instead of going out trick and treating, so we decided to have a TOILET NIGHT.

We just played a whole lot of fun games, and had lots of lolly scrambles and yummy food.

Here's some photos to show some of the fun we've had .....

TOILET HOCKEY
MUMMY WRAP

OVER AND UNDER


TOILET BOBBING


SNOW STORM


TOILET BASKETBALL

What about praying?

Yeah, what about it... Well, Praying is talking to God. Do you pray?
Talking is essential in a relationship, no communication is no relationship... The same counts for a relationship with God.
We played the game Barnyard to show communication is very important. In this game you are only allowed to make the sound of the animal on your card in order to form groups. ... uhm there was only one person in the donkey group...
With Grab It only communication via the hands was allowed to let the person at the end know if head or tail was tossed.
How do you get four groups of youth on sinking islands? Play Pile Up!
We also did some thinking.. What type of things can you pray about? Basically anything...
But the most important ones can be categorised in 5 groups:

Praising God - for who He is
Thanking God - for what He has done and is doing
Confessing - your sins to God
Asking - for forgiveness and for daily needs
Others - are important too to pray for

Everybody feels it is neccessary to pray for Family, Food, Love and God. These are the most important things in life! Hopefully you realise that a life without God is hopeless.

It was quite hard not to fall over top of each other in the caterpillar walk game!
The Jelly bean trade is always welcome, because you get to eat them at the end...

Remember to start your prayer with addressing God and closing with 'Amen', which means that you believe that God will surely hear and answer the prayer.

If you have any questions relation to this topic or other topics, please do not hasitate to send an e-mail with your questions to us.

***DROPZONE TOILET NIGHT COMING UP***

Halloween Night is coming up .in two weeks........ and at DropZone the party is going to be ......

LOO NIGHT


No costumes, just tonnes of fun (going to the toilet) and food!!!

SEE YOU ALL THERE!

FUN in the holidays

With an impressive 7 youth we played most of the games we planned for this holiday FUN night.


Charades was very popular and a lot of fun trying to act something out.


Two girls didn't want to give up during the bottle hold up; after that they seemed to have a cramped arm :)

How to stick 8 skewers in a marshmellow only using your mouth was a mission and a half. Still, the mission was accomplished within the time limit

The boys team racing against the girls team on the carpet skis. We're getting better at this.

we hope you have enjoyed the brake and are looking forward to go back to school and catch up with your friends.

Death

We all avoid talking about death but it is true that one out of every one person will die!! That means you and I and everyone that we know is going to die one die. So it's something we will all have to deal with at some time. And that's why we decided to talk to you about this topic ....

We started out by having some fun. We first played Mummy Wrap .... well done to the blue team who managed to get the most toilet paper on their 'mummy' in the time limit.



Next was .... Banana Choke ..... how fast can we peel and eat a banana only with our left hand.




What are we looking for???




We then split into little groups to discuss some questions about dying. Some of the things that we discussed in our small groups were: Why do young people die sometimes? Why do we not like thinking about death? Is it easier to die when you are old? What is going to happen after we die?

Next we played a fun game of crab soccer .....





We ended the evening with Wayne asking some questions for us all to think about

.... if it is true that everyone has to die how are we valuing all the people that are around us?
.....if it is true that we are going to die one day what is going to happen after death?
.... if it is true that heaven and hell exist where am I going to go when I die?
.... if it is true that only those that have a relationship with God go to heaven, is it important for
me to have this relationship?

Please continue to think about these questions as they are probably the most important questions you can ever ask yourself.

As DropZone leaders we really care for you and what will happen to you after you die .... so if you have any more questions that you want to ask us please don't hesitate. It is sometimes a bit tricky to ask us at DropZone so feel free to pop us an email instead. Our email is dropzoneteam@hotmail.com.

We'll be waiting to hear from you.

Love you all
Your DZ leaders

P.S Remember NO DropZone this Friday --- we're all taking a holiday, but we'll see you again on the second Friday of the holidays. Have a great holiday!!!!

LIFE

It was GREAT to see you all again on Friday night and tonight the topic was LIFE. As normal we started the evening with some FUN games enjoyed by all.... The Hospital Race... all about trying to get to the hospital as fast as you can so the baby is not born in the car!! Your D.Z leaders know all about that!!! :) Toss ball and umbilical cord wrap were also fun.

and building different objects with our bodies was a great challenge but you did really well

We then settled down and watched an amazing vedio about babies , we got to see ultrasounds clips of the baby at 4 weeks old. just amazing to see those precious little babies moving and jumping and smiling... wow it was very neat to see. Martijn then talked about LIFE...

"In here I have put all the parts that go to make up a watch. If they were all put together correctly it would go. Now, if I stood here shaking it like this, do you ever think it would put itself together and make a watch that goes? Of course not. But even if it did, it would still only be a machine. What do you think the chances are of it ever putting itself together and becoming alive, like Number 5 off Short circuit? Sounds absolutely crazy doesn't it? Now think of how much more complicated the human body is. Look at all the things you can do. You're a far more advanced machine than any watch and you're alive! What amazes me is that every one of us knows it's crazy to think this watch could put itself together by accident and no-one except__ a looney ever thinks it could come to life. But that's exactly how lots of people believe human life came, just by a bunch of chemicals floating around and then falling together by accident, to make you. That's what they'll teach you at school as the theory of evolution! When you think of that baby in the womb, growing, it seems even more crazy to call that an accident, than this watch coming together by accident. And yet if you say there is no God, that's the only explanation you can have for life! I know there's a watch maker, because something this clever could not have fallen together. Just the same, I know there's a God because something as brilliant as life just couldn't have fallen together!

Knowing that we were designed, with a purpose, gives the whole of our life a meaning and a purpose. I think it makes a lot more sense than saying we are accidents. It makes your whole life worth living. If God made us and everything around us, he has planned everything about our lives before we were even born, and he knows the best things for us.I know I'm much happier living how God wants, than I would beif I thought I was just a meaningless accident. Next timesomeone tells you that there is no God, think of the watch andremind yourself that if someone had to design that, someone hadto design you also. Remember there's only one way to get toknow God, by believing His son Jesus paid for all the things youhave done wrong when he died on the cross and that he cameback to life again to forgive us, if we put our whole life in hishands and choose to follow him, our designer!!

happy birthday to Angel and also to Thomas.....hope you both had a great day

have a good week and see you on friday at DZ

Luv your DZ leaders.

Competition Night with the POLICE

WOW!!!! ---- Friday night was a lot of fun. A big thanks to the three police officers that came along to join in with our fun!

These are some of the games that we competed against each other for.

SNOW HUNT

We had to look for the jelly bean in the snow (cream) with just our mouth.....

PING PONG PUSH

We had to push the ping pong across the hall using a straw.
NEWSPAPER SCAVENGER HUNT
We had to hunt in the newspaper for answers.



MUSICAL CHAIRS







We had a lot of fun. Thanks Constable Chopper, Constable Kealy and Constable Mo for joining in the fun. We look forward to doing this type of thing again with you!!