What's On Your Plate?

With the new semester in full swing, we had folks think about what is going on & pray for each other. We had markers, pens, and paper plates. We meant for people to take their plates to other people & pray with one another, but we also wanted people to see a sample of a plate. We made a sample plate & left it at the table. -ends up everybody else left their plate at the table too... Oh well.

Our instruction sheet read:
What's On Your Plate? Write down or draw pictures of what you have on your plate. How you spend your day... What occupies your time... Share your plate with someone else and pray for each other.

Index card/name/creative talent

Last Sunday, to go along with the theme of Creation from The Story We Find Ourselves In, we had a corkboard, some push pins, some index cards, a few pens, and the following instructions.

Write your name on an index card. Write down something you do that is creative. Tack the card to the board.

The responses we got were:

Aaron - I draw
Scott - I pray
Garret - I write poetry
Clara - I pray for people and love them as a Christian friend
Blake - I play random guitar chords
Lindsay - I love to sing!
Ben (the chef) - I put strawberries in the OJ!
Ashlyn - I'm a writer, photographer, and like to think of myself as a motivator
Lina - I sing, dance, and teach
Joshua - I encourage
Kathleen - I play volleyball and watch Lord Of The Rings (29 times)
Sam - I mix ideas - shaken not stirred
Christine - I teach special kids
Aaron - I like to do lights
Brandi - I love to write creatively and I'm a photographer
Lauren - I love to write poetry
Keith - I play the clarinet
Chad - I paint

Jenga!

OK, so I had it wrong... The book we're going through is not Adventures In Missing The Point! It is The Story We Find Ourselves In by Brian McLaren. This week's station was actually for a service two weeks ago, but was not used so we pulled it out for last Sunday.

Here's the setup... A Jenga tower and a sign with the following:

Pull a piece or two out of this Jenga tower & place them at the top.
Can you see how unstable it will become as it's foundation continues to be eroded?

The Look Book

We wanted to do a station about seeing the 'big picture' since we've just started a series on Adventures In Missing The Point. So, we found this website, Mystery Photos, where you see a picture, guess what it is, then see the 'big picture'. Really cool - wanted to use lots of their photos, then saw the legal note: COPYRIGHT NOTICE All photos on this site are copyrighted -- you may NOT post these images on any public forum or reproduce them in any form!

SO, we borrowed The Look Book from our local library, set it on a table and included the following guide: How well do you see the 'big picture?' Flip through this book and see if you can guess what each photo is before turning the page to reveal it... Don't peek until you give up.