Proverbs 13:17 “An unreliable messenger stumbles into trouble,
but a reliable messenger brings healing.”
This week at Bridge Kids, we learned about our 5th core value: Healing. At the Bridge, we bring the broken hearted into community where true life healing happens as a result of being loved, trained, and being exposed to the Holy Spirit. We have found that the Bible gives us the pattern for this. Today we learned that being trustworthy brings healing.
We started by playing “the bad messenger” where we learned about what bad messages can do. Bad messages include gossiping, using mean words to someone, and betrayal; and all of these can get us into trouble.
We played “trust fall” where we learned that being trustworthy means that if you say you are going to catch someone you always catch them.
Each Bridge Kid created a picture with a promise that they intend to keep this week, because being trustworthy means that you keep your promises. We chose easy promises so that each bridgekid would be successful in their road to trustworthiness.
Dine and Dish:
Talk – Talk with your bridgekid about:
How gossip has hurt you in the past and what you learned from it (remember to not use names otherwise you are gossiping)
What happened when someone “dropped you” when you trusted them. Take the time to listen to times that your bridgekid felt betrayal.
Their promise, and be a cheerleader for their cause.
Do an activity together:
Make a promise – Think of one thing this week that you can do for someone that would be easy for you to accomplish. Tell that person that you promise to do it. And then make sure you do it. Challenge yourself each week to make one promise to someone that you will keep.
Play “Trust Fall” – Have your bridgekid ask “are you going to catch me?” Respond “yes I will catch you!” Then have your bridgekid fall into your arms. Catch them safely.
Go on a Date with your Bridgekid – create a promise and anticipation by asking your bridgekid out on a date. Make sure you keep your promise and the date is full of memory makers.
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Here's what we did!
[dance]
[Game] – THE BAD MESSENGER
3 kids go out of the room, they choose which person will be the bad messenger.
lights go off, and the bad messenger touches one kids on the back. That kid dies in front of every one, and then tries to guess who the “bad messenger” was. If they are right they get to be a part of the messengers. If He is wrong then the bad messenger gets to be part of the two new messenger team. Two new ones are selected and we repeat.
*Talking stick*
(pass out snack)
* What would a bad messenger have? (bad message)
* what would a bad message look like?
Gossip – speak bad things about another person
mean words towards someone
betrayal – Place your trust in someone and then they use it against you.
*We’re talking about healing this month. And I want to share with you something that is in the bible:
“An unreliable messenger stumbles into trouble, but a reliable messenger brings healing.”
Being trustworthy means not being a bad messenger
[dance] stumbling dance… messenger dance… reliable.
[Game] - Trust fall
*What is trust?
*How would you feel if I dropped you?
*What if I caught you 9 times and on the 10th time I said why don’t you try it from that platform and then didn’t catch you.
*How would you feel?
*Do you think your parents would be happy with me?
* What if I made a mistake and I didn’t mean to not catch you? (is there a difference?)
Being Trustworthy means if you say you are going to catch someone, you always catch them.
[prayer]
[dance]
What this is saying is: do what you say you are going to do and you won’t get into trouble. Make a promise this week to yourself and others and keep it.
Being Trustworthy means you keep your promises
*What is a promise?
[art]
draw out a promise that you intend to keep this week.
So funny. the trust fall was a big highlight. it was like patty and I were carnival rides. Also we had 14 this week, and it was super fun.
At the end we made promises and one of the kids promised to scratch their butt in three seconds. WOW what a feeling of accomplishment. He then went the next step and promised to annoy his sister. This little guy is very funny. But I also am wondering if he ever doesn't have that comedy shell of protection. I want to find that.
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