A Time for Service Crop Walk   It's Your Move Work Zone and High Way Set Up: Before the meal begins announce we will be serving one another. No one is allowed to carry his or her own meal to a table. You must carry someone else's meal before you can eat your own. Two people leave the kitchen at a time - one meal goes with them. You can't just carry each other's tray. Serve then go to the back of the line. Announcements: Regular  Youth next Sunday, Crop Walk in 2 weeks, Soda Shop in 3 Weeks, Haunted Lock-in at the end of the month.   On the Spot Scavenger Hunt (10 min) Break into table groups - no more than 8 per table. The leader calls out different items or activities for the groups to produce. The first group to carry someone to the front with the item gets a point (the entire group does not have to go). The Group with the most points wins. Anytime you leave the table someone must be carried.    "A nickel from the 90's    "Pen with a chewed cap    "A non-white shoelace - has to be removed from the shoe    "A belt    "Brush or comb    "Family picture    "Guy wearing red lipstick    "Two people with their shoelaces tied together    "Gum in the wrapper - Leader gets the gum!    "Key chain with at least 8 keys    "Store receipt    "Church bulletin    "Church Map If you haven't guessed, tonight is all about using your time for service. As Christians, we are called to serve. As teenagers, it is very hard to learn to find the time to exercise service. It is very easy to worry about "me" and how I appear to everyone else. Read Mark 10:43-45 Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.   Break into Journey Groups   Moving In  Work Zone & High Way  Walk a Mile in My Shoes (5 min) Say: Many kids like you have to walk many miles a day carrying water jugs or wood to their homes. We are going pair up with someone your size and take turns carrying each other just to get a taste of their struggles. When you get back to your starting point, please remain standing. High Way carries their partners from the pit to the crossing hall under the sanctuary and back. Work Zone carries their partners one lap around the gym on the carpet.      Moving On Work Zone & High Way  HEALTH IN THE VILLAGE (5 min) Say: Please remain standing. You are now a village in the so-called developing world. You live in Africa, Asia or Latin America. To show you the challenges that many face, I'm going to ask you some questions. Ask:    "Does anyone need glasses? If so, you would probably be illiterate, because glasses are rarely available. Put your hand over your eye.    "Has anyone ever broken a bone in his or her hand or arm? If so, put that arm behind your back. You'd have restricted movement because skills to set the break were in short supply and the bone didn't heal right.    "Has anyone ever broken a bone in his or her leg or foot? If so, you might also be physically limited because the skills to set the fracture were in short supply and the bone didn't heal right. Stand on one leg.    "Are you female? In many parts of the world, women only eat after all the men and children are fed, leaving women weak and much more vulnerable to illness. Their weakness leads to mortality 18 times greater in the developing world than here. If you are a female, sit down.    "Has anyone had diarrhea? An inconvenient discomfort for us, it is deadly for many in the developing world (especially children) where over a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. You can sit down. Then Ask:    "What struck you during this brief exercise?      "What questions do you have now?      "What actions might our faith call us to?   Moving Up Work Zone & High Way  Work Zone split into smaller groups Tough Questions (15-20 min) Say: Most American teenagers are out of touch with world hunger. They sometimes hear about it, or see pictures of starving people on the news or in magazines, but can't relate with these people. Our society can't expect kids to understand poverty-stricken life. America is a wealthy society that indulges in almost everything, overeats and has the world's highest rate of obesity. Crop Walk is a way to help you take a little time to think about your own privileges and freedom in light of world hunger.   Ask:    "What's your favorite food?    "What's your favorite soft drink?    "What's your favorite dessert?    "Who doesn't have a favorite food?    "What's your most prized possession? Without sounding judgmental say: In the majority of the world young people have no choice about what they eat, most people could never dream of tasting the wonderful variety of foods that you have. Their most prized possessions are the tools that keep them fed and clothed. You have privileges beyond their dreams. You have things that are merely "wants"; your stuff is far beyond their "needs". Say: Why do you eat the food you do? (Circle the most common answer.)    "It's healthy    "It's on the menu, and it's cheap    "I like it, and it tastes good    "It fits into my diet    "It looked good on the commercial    "It's what my family prepares    "It's in the cafeteria After the group has shared their responses- ASK:    "What answers do you think hungry youth from starving countries might have given?    "What if food wasn't a convenience for you? Say: Do you agree or disagree? These statements should generate some debate. Let them share their opinions on each one and give reasons why they agree or not. ASK:    "There are very few hungry people in America.    "If I was hungry all the time, I wouldn't be worried about how I looked.    "It's their own fault if some people are hungry.    "Underage drinking, premarital sex, and drug abuse are also problems of poor societies.    "It's God's will for some people of the world to be hungry.    "One shouldn't eat just for pleasure.    "It's a sin to overeat.    "There's nothing I can do to help the hungry people of the world.    "World hunger isn't my problem. Say: If you believe that hunger is your problem and if your faith is mature enough and if you are willing to do something, you CAN ensure your own bountiful "faith crop" to share with others. Please help us out by gathering pledges for Crop Walk. It's really easy if you have a Facebook page. Just post a message at least once a day with our link. People can go to the link and make a secure online credit or debit card pledge to us. Second Peter 1:5-8 is Peter's outline for faith growth: "To faith we add goodness, to goodness knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control patience, to patience service for God, to service for God kindness for brothers and sisters in Christ and to kindness add love."   TIME CRUNCH? (5 min) Decide if you have time to go over the leader handout, "Crop Walk".  Save at least 15 minutes for the closing game below. Leader Hand Out Crop Walk How much do you know about Hunger? 1. The world produces enough food for everyone's needs.  True False 2. Over 840,000,000 people in the world are hungry.  True False 3. The main reason people are hungry is _____.  bad luck   poverty   floods   earthquakes 4. Poor nutrition among children can lead to _____.  stunted growth    poor eyesight    illness     All of these 5. How many people are in the world?  3 billion    5 billion    6.3 billion    10 billion 6. In the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America 1.2 billion people live on an average income of ___ a day. $1   $10   $25   $50 7. Being chronically undernourished affects _____.  Health   Ability to think   Sense of hope   all 8. ___ million children under age five die each year as a result of hunger. One    Two    Five    Six 9. More than ___ million Americans cannot afford enough food to meet their basic needs. 17    34    51    68 10. The rate of requests for emergency food assistance in the United States is declining    stable    increasing    unknown 11. The cost of providing seeds, a hoe, and a shovel to a family farm in West Africa is ____. $5    $10    $15    $20 12. Solving hunger is _________.  Hopeless    Not my problem    Possible - if we work together   Moving Out Work Zone & High Way  LARGE GROUP GAME High Way returns to the gym to play with Work Zone.   The Haves and Have Not's Have everyone take off his or her shoes and have the sponsors scatter them randomly about the room in matching pairs. The youth then will all start from the same base, run to his or her shoes put one on, then go get another shoe that isn't theirs and keep it away from its owner. The object is to keep one shoe on your foot while trying to find the person with your other shoe, tag them, put your other shoe on and return to base with someone else's shoe in your possession. The first one back wins and sits out the next round. You don't get to stand guard at any shoe waiting for someone to pick it up. If you're tagged you must give up the shoe you're holding. If you have your own two shoes on your feet (in any way) those shoes are safe, but if you're carrying another shoe on your way to base and get tagged you must give it up and find a new shoe. Play the rest of the time. But be sure to save a few minutes at the end to make the point. Say: It seems like only some people have the ability to win the game. It might look like you will always be running around in one shoe just trying to keep another shoe in your hand. For the hungry people of the world it seems like that. They can only manage to do one thing at a time. In many cases even that is impossible without help. Now imagine if one other person helped you get your shoes, imagine if 5 people were on your team, 10 people? You see one person helping is good, many people helping out is way better. Crop Walk and the hungry people of the world need your help.   Closing Work Zone & High Way Gather in a closing circle. Ask: What did you learn tonight? Explain the "Greatest Commandment". Begin with - Who knows the commandment that says, "Serve Others"?... "Pass the Peace" by saying "Help me to be your servant" Do the UMYF Benediction and turn out in to the world.  Gather for this lesson: Gathering music, Leader handout, "Crop Walk" UMYF Benediction business cards