Take a Band-Aid...

Today's station idea came from some guy that did a talk for my mother-in-law's church's sunday school teachers, etc... We had a few pens, a pile of band-aids, and a small trash can & the following instructions:

Take a band-aid.
Take off the wrapper and write your name on the top of the band-aid.
Find someone and tell them about a hurt that they can see (a scratch, a bruise, a bump) and how you got it.
Then tell them about a hurt that can’t be seen.
Give them the band-aid with your name on it so they can wear it.
Every-time they see it they should pray for you and your hurt.
Offer to get them a band-aid.

So I did the station, and later during the service, found myself a bit weepy/emotional about the whole thing - somehow verbalizing my current hurt brought it to the surface in a pretty big way. Not what I expected, but I hope it was as impactful for the others who participated...

The Fan

I'm not sure where we got this idea... but it wasn't ours. We had a fan on a table and the following sign. "Move across the air stream from the fan. Feel the full force of the air. Imagine this is the Holy Spirit moving in your life. Are you ready to stand at the center of God's will for you? Talk to God. Pray."

The World As A Village

For August 8th we had a sheet with "Take a Sheet. Take a guess. Take a Peek." We had a pile of sheets with "The World As A Village. If we reduced the world's population to a village of 100 people, would you recognize it? Use the percentages on the right side of the page to fill in the blanks to the left of each category." It had one column of categories, and another where you would write in the percentages you think are right, and then a selection of percentages you can choose from. The we had a closed notebook. On the outside it said, "Answer to statistics sheet under here..." Inside was the answer key with the following statistics:
Females 49%, English Speaking 9%, Children 33%, Suffering from malnutrition 50%, Over the age of 65 6%, Living in substandard housing 80%, Asians 59%, No access to drinking water 66%, Persons of color 70%, Lesbian or gay 10%, Christians 30%, College-educated 1%, Own half the village's wealth 6%.

Acrostic Community Poem

August 1st we had two sheets with Acrostics on them. One was "City On A Hill" and the other was "Community Of Hope." We had the words spelled from top to bottom and then included the following instructions: "Please add a word or phrase regarding the Church's role as a voice of HOPE in this world to one of these acrostic community poems...
Then we started one or two letters on each sheet to get it going.