Welcome to R.E.F.U.G.E.
“But the Lord will redeem those who serve him. No one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.” Psalm 34:22
Designed to provide a safe place where Jr High students can receive assistance and a mid week break, R.E.F.U.G.E. will be a ministry dedicated to:
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January ThemeStarting Fresh
5 Smooth Stones: Where Do I need to Start? Setting a Goal Making a Plan |
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December Theme: Christmas
Christmas Party
Characters of Christmas
Christmas Party
Tuesday, December 8th 2009
November theme
Thanksgiving: What keeps us from being Thankful?
Thanksgiving: A Project of Gratefulness
October theme: Dealing With School
Dealing with Teachers
Dealing with Homework
Dealing with Tests
Jr High Theme Night Fall 2009
the cost covers nerf darts (A nerf gun if you are paying the $10 fee) and dinner. Strapped for cash? Bring a nerf gun and food for 5 people. Hope to see you there!
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8th Grade Honor Night
Date: Tuesday, June 9th 2009
Time 6 pm -8:10 pm
Locetion CEFC Youth Room
CEFC Jr High May Madness 2009
All New! Starting May 3rd 2009!
Jr High Sunday School Revamped!
Sunday Mornings 9 am Lassen High School 300 building.
Look for the divider and listen for the NOISE!
A Partnership by Walter and Stacy Kirklin
Notes on the Teacher:
Walter Kirklin has over 5 years of experience with Jr Highers in Lassen County. Walter not only loves to have fun, he loves to DIG DEEP.
If you missed out on Winter Retreat, you missed out on a Great time!
Updates coming soon!
Does it Affect Me? A look at what God says regarding our entertainment.
Question Set 1:
Does Entertainment affect you?
How do you know?
If God asked you to change your entertainment, would you?
Question Set 2:
Explain how Colossians 2:8 relates to today's entertainment.
How is your faith in Jesus?
Do You ever feel that you've lost your salvation?
How is the 'joy' of your salvation?
Tuesday, December 9th 2008
Jr High Christmas Party!
Bring a Wrapped gift ($10 or less) and food to share! We'll meet at 5:30 pm at the Church!
Game Choice of the Week -
Select a Intro Game and a Closing Game for this Week
People Scavenger Hunt
Good game for a crowd or audience. Divide the crowd into three or four teams, each section with a captain. The game leader calls out certain characteristics...blue eyes, likes to snowboard, has a 4.0, has red hair, etc.
The captain of each team must quickly try to bring someone with that characteristic up to the leader. First one to do so wins that round. Keep score and play to 5 or 10.
Play Doh Pictionary
Just like it sounds! Pictionary, but with Play-doh. Divide into teams. Have a representative come up front from each group. Whisper a Pictionary word (like "dog") to the group and they must run back to their group and, without talking, mold that word with Play-doh.
2 teams (Or two groups) are asked to answer several questions about a single topic that we have gotten info from previously. Thequestions are asked in a "Family Feud" format.
Alka-Seltzer On The Head Duel
You may play this game as a quick up-front game or even as a 4-person tournament. 2 contestants, each armed with a squirt gun, will take five paces and turn to duel. On each of their foreheads, you will have attached an Alka-seltzer tablet with double stick tape (possibly use big rubber bands if tape doesn’t work). They draw and shoot the water at each other, the first one to dissolve the tablet on the other's forehead wins. Use swim goggles for each to protect their eyes. The tablet will fizz and foam all over the place.
Attack of the Fish
Supplies: Two cups of Goldfish crackers and two big scoops of creamy peanut butter.
Ask for two volunteers who are not allergic to peanuts.
Split up teams around them (Use 3 people for each volunteer if the game is up front, and use everyone if it's being played in a small group). Set the timer and have the teams decorate the volunteers' faces as best they can.
Best "attacked" face wins. Our jr. highers created looks like Goldfish glasses, oversized eyebrows, earrings, and a goatee. Very fun, very simple, and very tasty. For ambience, play the Jaws theme or music while the game is played.
Balloon Master
Small Group/All Play: Divide the group into 2 or more teams with 3-4 people on each team. Large Group/Up Front: Choose 2-4 five-person teams.
Give each team a roll of masking tape and 30 balloons. On "Go!" have members of each team roll the masking tape (sticky side out) around one of their teammates below the neckline. Next, have kids blow up their balloons as quickly as they can and stick as many as possible to the taped-up team member. You can either end the game here awarding the Balloon Master to the one with the most balloons attached in the time allotted, or you can set up an obstacle course and when the balloons have been attached, have the player go through and back to their team. Balloons that fall off during the race may not be re-attached. The team whose player has the most balloons still attached is the Balloon Master.
Clap
This game is a variation of the old faithful "Hot/Cold" game. One person is chosen to be "it" and asked to leave the room so they can't hear or see what is going on in the room. Take about 1 minute and pick an action as a group for "it" to do when he/she returns. (A Jumping Jack, Pick Their Own Nose, etc). When "it" is given the signal to come back in the room he/she has to guess what he/she is supposed to do by walking around, touching things in the room or performing random actions. The group will clap louder and faster the closer "it" gets to completing the task. Remember there is no talking or other clues, but there will be a considerable amount of laughter, and you will be shocked at the detailed and complicated things you can get a person to do simply by clapping.
Elimination
This is either played outdoors in a field or in a gym.
One person is designated as "it" and is given a dodgeball. "It" then chases the rest of the group throwing the ball at them. If someone is hit they must sit down where they are hit. Once the ball is thrown, anyone may grab it and become "it." If the ball is caught, the thrower must sit down and the person who caught the ball is now "it." I normally state that to sit down the ball must hit you in the air and headshots do not count.
The twist is that someone who is sitting down can stand up and be back in the game if the person who hit them has to sit down. Therefore, the game does not end until 1 person ends up hitting every person (or until you call an end to the game due to time).
NOTE: If you play this game outdoors, make clear boundaries so the game does not spread out too much.
Money Grab
Great upfront/crowd game that gets everyone involved but without complete chaos! Supplies: Play $. Give one bill to every person who comes that night, right when they come in. When you’re ready to play, call some people up to the front - suggestion: 3 people for every 100 kids. On, “Go!” your three volunteers run out in the crowd and grab as much money as possible - the crowd lifts up their monopoly money. Set a time limit. The one who runs back to you with the most money wins.
Taboo on Easel
This is like the board game Taboo, but on an Easel and a lot easier. Divide your audience into teams (if you have the typical audience with an isle down the middle, make one half "west side" and the other half "east side." Teams elect someone to be the stool person. Bring that person up and seat them on a stool in front of everyone. Write four words behind them on the easel for all to see except the stool person (example: bulldog, stapler, Spain, paper airplane). Assign a point value for each word (example: 10 points each). Give the team (which is one half of the audience) a certain time (90 seconds) to try to get the stool person to guess the words. The team can do the words in any order. If they break any of the rules or cheat, they not only don't get the points for that particular word, they are given negative points (example: negative 10 points). Do several rounds for each team, one at a time, bringing up new stool people each time. Play until blue in the face.Do not permit "east side" to distract or yell or shout out anything during 'west side's" turn. If they do try and distract the other team, deduct points from them. Same thing goes for "west side."
Rules:
No saying any part of the word on the list (i.e. if "doghouse" is the word to guess, you can not say "dog" or "house")
No hand motions
No "sounds like" or rhyming with other words
Song Endurance
This game is very simple and can be played with two or more teams. Can do guys against girls. Pick a song theme - at Christmas choose Christmas songs; with a younger group you don't even need a theme, any song can be open game - and let the singing begin.
The object of this game is to keep coming up with songs longer than the other team or teams. One team starts and sings a line of one song. Then the other team has 5 seconds to start singing a line of another song. Then the other team has 5 seconds to sing a line from yet another song. Teams may discuss and plan out which song to sing while the other teams are singing.
The first team to repeat a song, sing a song that doesn't fit that category or just not sing within 5 seconds is the loser. If more than two teams play, sit losing teams out until one team finally prevails.
Cookie Tower
Get teams of 3 or 4 people up front. Each team member is armed with cookies. (Gingersnaps are usually the best; Nilla Wafers work in a pinch.)
Within one minute, the team members must stack their cookies, one on top of the other, on one person’s forehead. The team with the most cookies stacked wins. (Try this with Starbursts, too.)
Dance Dance EVOLUTION
Dance Dance Evolution
It’s called Dance Dance EVOLUTION because the style of music keeps changing and changing and students don't know what to expect next! Here’s how you pull it off.
Bring 2-4 students up front and tell them you are going to play a CD that they must dance to...without stopping! Best dancer wins.
Make a CD with snippets (I'd say about 30 seconds each) of different genres of music, (at least 10), the goofier the better. Here are some ideas:
The Wiggles (children’s TV show)
Country Song (something with a lot of twang!)
Rock Song (top 40 will suffice)
Polka
Opera
Heavy Metal
Bluegrass
Gospel
Cartoon Theme Show (like Sponge Bob)
Reggae
Rap/Hip Hop (make sure it’s clean)
Individuals compete against each other for the best dance composition. You can have 2-4 students compete at the same time. Judge them for who has the most creative moves, who wasted the least amount of time trying to figure out what to do, the one willing to be the goofiest, etc.
Here are a couple of rules to help you make the game a hit with your group.
1. You can't just do the same thing the whole time. You have to change your dancing each time the music changes.
2. Once you stop dancing for more than 10 seconds, you're out!
3. Make sure the dance moves are “acceptable” by your standards. (Announce this before you begin, or else you WILL see some “dirty” dancing.)
Have fun!
Gargle a Tune
Bring 3 students up front. Hand them each a glass of water. Then, one at a time, show only the person doing the gargling the name of a familiar song. It could be a nursery rhyme or any other familiar song. Have the person take a drink of water and attempt to gargle the tune you have showed them. The rest of the students in the room should be listening close so they can guess the song. Be ready for water through the nose.
Hose-Head
Bring 2 people up front. Get a pair of women's size small thigh-high panty hose.
(Or just cut the legs from a regular pair.)
Put a tennis ball in the end of each one all the way at the toe end. Have the contestants put the panty hose over their head and face (w/ ball dangling in front). They bend over and start swinging their panty hose and ball. Then they try to use their swinging hose to catch the other swinging hose and pull it off the other person's head.
The first one to pull it off their opponents head is the winner. They can run around or whatever trying to keep it on their head.
As always, use caution and safety. Make it a rule that if their hose hits the other person or wraps around the other person, they lose. (You don't want them wrapping hose around necks, heads, etc.) You might want to offer eye protection as well.
Another option is to do this with about 6-10 people.
Human Scrabble For Dummies
Two groups of students line up in the front of the room. Each one gets a letter hung around his or her neck on a card. All the letters in each group spell a word, but it's all scrambled up.
At signal, each group must arrange themselves to properly spell the word. The first group to do so wins.
Human Tic Tac Toe
You can use this game as a small group activity or as an upfront game for a huge group.
For this game you need at least 6 students and 9 chairs. Set up 2 teams: one to be x's and the other o's. Divide it how you wish: the guys can be x's and the girls o's, or all the freshman and sophomores (x) vs juniors and seniors (o), etc.
When the leader yells, "TIC TAC GO!" students charge toward the chairs.!" (NOTE: be careful, this isn’t a hockey game. No pushing, shoving, scratching, biting, clotheslining, scissors kicking, decapitating, etc.). Their goal is to make a line, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, just like the tic tac toe played on paper.
If you've got a camera and a VPU, you can use a cordless relay system or a really long RCA cable to provide a live feed from above the chairs. That would help the audience cheer on their team.
NOTE: Teams cannot make the straight line closest to them. You may have a few "Cat's Tails" or "Cat's Games" (depending on the region you live in)!
Indoor Bobsledding
All you need is wax paper and a carpeted floor. We use 2-man and 4-man bob sled teams. For 2-man, each team gets a 4 foot piece of wax paper. One person has to remain on the "sled" at all times the other person is the brakeman (pusher). 4-man teams get two 6-foot pieces of wax paper. Two people must remain on the sled at all times while the others push. We use the jogging track around our gym as our "track". Compete head-to-head or individually for the best time. It is a blast
Never Bored Again
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, if we said, “I'm Bored,” to our mother we would usually find ourselves cleaning a bathroom or a bedroom soon afterwards. So we found ways to entertain ourselves; this game is one of them.
If you have a small group of kids, say 5-12, everyone can play. If you have a bigger group, then pick 6 kids to come up front and form two teams (three on each).
Give each team the same 5 household items. (Perhaps a 4-pack of toilet paper, a plastic spoon, a cowboy hat, a bunch of grapes, and a broom.) Tell the teams that they have to use at least 3 items given to them to come up with a game to play. Give them 2 minutes to come up with a game.
Here are the rules:
1. They have to have a name for their game.
2. They have to demonstrate their game for the crowd.
3. They must use at least 3 of the items you gave them.
Let the crowd determine which team’s game is the most creative. That team wins the prize.
Variation: Give each team a different set of household items. This will make it more interesting, but be warned, you may get flack from one team for having items that are “more difficult” to work with.
Oreo Head
Ask for 3 or 4 volunteers to come up front. On "go" the contestants take an Oreo, twist it open, moisten the creamier side with their tongue, and stick it to their forehead. Then, without using their hands, they try to contort their faces to maneuver the Oreo down their face and into their mouth. The first one to eat their Oreo wins. This is a hilarious game with many funny faces! I would also recommend a live feed video camera if you've got a larger group.
Phone a Friend
For this game you need a cell phone (preferably w/a speakerphone) and a sound system.
Bring a student upfront. Have them use your cell phone (you have to be able to hear the person on the other line) to make a live call to a friend of their choice. They will identify where they are and what's going on (“I'm part of this contest in my youth group right now . . .”)
Now ask your student a series of questions about the person they are going to call. They have to guess what the person on the cell will say, such as:
Will they answer before the third ring?
Have they eaten dinner yet?
Do they have shoes on?
Or something embarrassing like:
Does their mom kiss them good night?
Give a prize to your teen for every right answer they give. They can keep going up the prize ladder for better prizes, but if they miss they lose everything! Go 5 rounds, start with small prizes like candy bars and work your way up to CDs, tickets to a concert, amusement park, money, whatever!
Big Group Twister
This game can be played with groups ranging in size from 20 to 100. You play according to the regular Twister rules and use the spinner that comes with the board game (or you can make one yourself). Go out and buy colored paper plates (red, yellow, blue, and green); six plates of each color makes one regular sized Twister playing area (you'll need one playing area for every 10 youth in your group). Use duct tape to tape the paper plates to the ground, placing the plates in the same order as found on the regular Twister playing area -- red, yellow, blue, and then green. Tips: We found that you need to place the plates a little further apart for high school students so that it's more of a challenge. Play the game exactly like the rules of the original game. The last player standing wins!!
Circle Chase
You can play this game with any number of people, but if you have a large group, break them up into several groups spread out around the room.
Ideally, each group will have 10 students in them, 5 on each “team.” Have one team form a TIGHT circle facing outwards. Then have the second team form a circle around the first team's circle facing inward. Hand a ball to one member of the inner circle. Then give a student at the opposite side of the outer circle a foam sword or pool noodle.
The object of this game is for a person on the outer circle team to "tag" the person holding the ball with using the foam noodle. NO ONE CAN MOVE AT ALL…students must PASS the ball and sword from one to another! When you say go, the outer circle tries to "catch" the person holding the ball by tagging them with the foam sword. The inner circle tries to avoid getting tagged by passing the balloon around the circle, and out of reach of the outer circle team.
Give the outer circle team one minute to tag the inner circle team. If the outer circle team succeeds, give them a point. If the inner circle team survives for one minute without being tagged, give them a point. After the first round, switch it up making the outer team become the inner team, and vice versa.
Set a score to end the game on (5 points), or depending on how long you want the game to go. Enjoy!
RULES:
1. You cannot hide the sword or balloon behind your back.
2. You must pass both the sword and balloon to the person immediately next to you. No tossing either object across the circle.
3. You can change direction, or hold the object, but realize you only have one minute.
4. Everyone must keep both feet planted firmly to the ground. No pivoting or leaning. (This avoids taller people from having too big an advantage.)
5. If either the balloon or sword is dropped the person who dropped it must pick it up. However, the game does not stop when someone drops the ball or sword!
Theme Night - Tuesday, October 28th 2008
Tonight the theme is Dr Suss! Come dress up like a character out of a Dr Suss book.
Life can get crazy, where does God come into that? Join us that night and find out how!
Bring a fun/crazy snack to share!
Jr High "Preschool" Night 2008
A 'little' crazy, but crazy fun!