DropZone: The Rich Fool!

This night we thought about a story Jesus tells us in the Bible.

It is a story about a rich man. This rich man only thought about his crops and what he was going to do with all his money. God calls him a fool, because he did not care about God in his life. He prepared everything to sow and grow his crop, but he did not prepare his soul to meet God. But in the night that man died and all his stuff and money had to be given away. He could not take anything with him. Only his soul.

We often do the same in our life. We take a lot of thought into what clothes we shall wear or what lunch we shall prepare to take to school. But not very often we think about preparing our soul for when we die.

We do not know when we will die, but we know that we will die for sure. It could be very far away ... or only a few years ... months ... days ... or less.

That is why it is so important to find out what our relationship status is with God.

We started with a game of netball.

Then the leaders acted out the story Jesus tells in Luke 12; The parable (story with deep meaning) of the rich fool. We thought about the reason for God calling that man a fool: his aim in his life was just to have fun and focus on himself. But God says the aim of our life should be to give glory to God and be focused on Him and on helping all other people.

The game we played after that was the well known Poison Pole.

While poison pole is focusing on getting other people 'out', the next game was totally focused on helping an old lady with shopping bags and a tray of eggs cross a busy road.

There were also some boyracers present who made it very hard for the old lady to cross the road.

The last game of the night was 'For Grabs', where every team had to get as much clothes in their 'sheds' (Hoola-hoops). There were thieves around as well as DropZone leaders, who could take stuff as well, which simulates loosing things because they break down or rust.

God also talks about thieves and rust in the Bible (Luke 12). He says that all the stuff we gather while we are alive can be taken away from us by those thieves and rust. But God talks about gathering treasures in heaven, where are no thieves or rust. Those treasures will last after we die.

Also our 'positive points system' pointed this out, as you could choose to either have a lolly right away or a tick behind your name on the board, counting toward a great reward at the end of the night ... a large chocolate bar!

Have a great break!!!

We hope to see you all back on the first friday night of the new school term, when we have a special night: