TeacherAide
A weekly
teaching aide for student developers
Beneath The Surface
SESSION 9
HANDS ON
The
purpose of this activity is to teach your students the value of making the most
out of what they have been given. Separate youth into teams of two. One team
sits down at a table and builds a structure, design, etc; while one member of
another team watches them build. The team that is watching has one person with
their own set of blocks AT A SEPERATE TABLE with their backs to
everything. Once the structure or whatever is built, the person that watched
must call out instructions to their teammate to rebuild the structure as close
to exact as possible. The only trick is that the team that is doing the
rebuilding can't look at each other while they are communicating. They can ask
questions of each other but can never look at each other until the game is over
and they see how they did. It's amazing how difficult it can be especially if
you have several shapes and sizes of blocks.
Hold up a glove. The glove, by itself, does not pick up anything. It is limp, helpless. Slide your hand into it. The glove now has dexterity and power. It has become a gifted, smart glove that can accomplish innumerable tasks. Money is a glove through which the hand of human personality expresses itself. The glove by itself is neither good nor bad. The hand in the glove can take on either self- centered or self-giving characteristics. It can either open to give or grasp in greed.
"Stewardship is whatever we do with the Gospel by the way we live."
Dr. Betsy Schwarzentraub
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do
thee no good.
William Penn
"If the Lord can't get into your pocket, he
probably isn't in your heart."
James Nelson
"Stewardship is everything you do after you
say yes to Jesus Christ."
Clarence Staughton