Funny Money

Last Friday night we thought about something all people love to have lots of … money. We started of the night with a game of hockey, which was won by the boys team with 2-0.

When we were all exhausted from the hockey, we sat down and watched some of the leaders act out a play called: The rich man and Lazarus. It goes as follows:

“There was a rich man. There was also a poor, sick beggar named Lazarus, who laid next to the front door of the rich man. Lazarus would love to eat just some crumbs which fell off the table of the rich man, but he did not get anything. Some dogs would come around and lick his sores, which relieved the pain a bit for Lazarus. After a while, Lazarus died. A short time later, the rich man died as well.”

Still thinking how unfair the rich man was toward that poor Lazarus, we played a game in which we had the opportunity to help others. Two blind people want to cross a busy road with their arms full of groceries; who will help them? In this relay, the youth has to watch out for the cars (skateboards) which drive up and down the road.

Then there was time for some surprises. Richard brought in some nice looking Christmas presents and gave everybody some cards. We all sat in a circle around the presents and Richard started calling out the cards one by one. You could then grab either a present from the middle or take it from someone who had a present already. A big surprise came for the person with the largest and heaviest present that when that was unwrapped, it contained a little chocolate bar and lots of rocks!

This night we learned about how easily greed gets hold of us. It is easy to say that the rich man was selfish, but with the surprises game it was clear that we all would love to have the largest present for ourselves. We read the story that Jesus told from the Bible: The rich man and Lazarus. It was important to know that after Lazarus died, he went to heaven, but the rich man went to hell. This teaches us that we can have everything we wish for in life, but if we are missing a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, we will have nothing after we die, because we cannot take anything with us when we die other than our soul.

God, Others and I

Hi everyone What another fun night we had on Friday. On Friday we thought about ourselves and other people. I never thought that I could be compared to a row of mugs ... did you?? We looked at the row of cups we saw that they were all a little different. Some were big, some little, some had handles, they had different colours, made out of different materials, but they all had the same purpose ... to hold a drink. Wayne said that we were kind of like this row of mugs, we were all different in our unique way, but we all have the same purpose and that is to serve and honour God.

The Bible tells us God made every one of us with our individual differences because he has different things for us to do. And he knows us perfectly - it says he even knows how many hairs are on our heads!!

So don't let anybody ever tell you you're not important and don't you tell anyone else that either. Because the God who made you, says you are and that's more important than anything.

Some of you may be treating yourselves as if you think you are junk. You need to think seriously about the results of what you do with your lives, because you are not junk you are precious to God and he wants to work out his plans in your life.


Wow that's lots to think about.... here's some photos of the fun that we had ...

Twister with a Twist (instead of finding the colours on the mat we had to find them on our team members.)

Shoe Box Relay


Newspaper Scavenger Hunt (who's going to get there first?)
Group Work (designing a business where we all had a special task, according to our unique talents).

A new type of dancing (?)

Thanks again everyone for such a fun evening. Can't wait to see you all again this Friday.

Luv from
your DropZone leaders

Easter Night

yes yes it is a little bit late... sorry sorry we totally forgot about having our DropZone Easter Night in Term One, and we just did not want you to miss out on those easter eggs!! No more important we wanted to share the true easter story with you . On firday night we started at one end of the table and asked What Easter was about , the first response was EGGS but by the time we had got to the end of the table we had some better ideas... Jesus Christ, the Cross, Died, He is risen!

WEll lets see what we did on friday night...

First game of the night was BACK SNATCHING where the aim of the game was to write as many names down as you could while not letting the others see what was on your back.

Next was the ABC SCAVENGER HUNT and well done to the Yellow group because they were just so creative!!

Then in for some food... The CREAM COUNTRY SIDE RACE , this was race to see which team could get all these eggs out of the cream the fastest... yum yum yum !! the Chocolate Cream was good every one said !!:)

Next was a EGG AND SPOON RACE ... easy for some and hard for others...

And then for the PUT THE TAIL ON THE BUNNY and EGG BOWLING ....

During the evening we worked in teams and kept the score and WELL DONE to the BLUE team because they were the winners wtih 25points!! Great work guys! :)

and now it was time to sit down on the couch and let the chocolate go down while Martijn shared a story about Easter. He used a story about a Tea Bag.... interesting .... let's explain...

The Label

He removed the tag/label and explained that the label identifies the tea. Jesus was labeled with many tags. He was called Christ, Messiah, teacher, Savior, the King of Kings, the man from Galilee, the carpenter, the Son of God, Redeemer, friend of sinners, good shepherd, Great Physician, King of the Jews and many more. At the cross, he had a sign placed over his head as "King of the Jews." Jesus was in the very nature God, but he wasn't concerned with titles. He did not consider equality with God something to be grasped. Instead he took the nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. He emptied himself made himself nothing.

The String

Then He removed the string and explained thatwe often become attached to things here on earth. We are often attached to possessions, pleasure, and power. Jesus was tempted by Satan after 40 days in the desert with the very same things. But Jesus was not attached to these things. His focus was on doing the will of God. He came to earth with a purpose.

The Staple
He next removed the staple and told us that this tea bag was pierced and has holes from a staple. Jesus was not pierced with a staple but with nails and a spear. His body was attached to a cross.

The Tea
Martijn now opened the tea bag and put the contents into some boiling water.... the team mad . ethe water change colour Tea looks like dirt. If you put it in water the water will be changed to the color of the tea. It will no longer be clear and pure.

We are all like this tea bag in that we are born with dirt in our lives. We are not pure. The Bible calls this dirt, this impurity, sin. We need help from God to remove the sin from our lives. That's exactly why Jesus came - to help us remove the sin from our lives. We must trust Jesus to remove the sin from our lives. When we ask him for forgiveness, he will make us clean and pure again.

Next Martijn opened the bag to make it into a long tube. When Jesus removes the sin from our lives we can stand pure in the sight of God. We will become a light for God. Philippians 2:15 says that among the perverse generation we will shine as lights in the world.

As you shine for Jesus you shall become closer to God in your Christian walk, and one day your soul shall join him for eternal life. Just as Christ was resurrected and went to be with the Father, we will also rise up to be with him. We will be exalted and raised with him.

Thanks for all the questions asked and if you have any more just ask us and don't forget you can pray to God to help you understand this and you can also read this easter story in the Bible.

We hope you all have a GREAT week and see you back again next week.

Luv your DropZone Leaders