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Required Resources:'Dressing up' clothes, 2 x Valentine's Cards, CDs (ideally of slushy songs), cheap red wrapping paper, sellotape, flowers), background 'slushy' music on a CD player, small prize, e.g. love hearts. Projector, laptop, Wedding Singer DVD.
Topic:Festivals (Christmas, Easter) Theme:In the midst of all the hype around the 'Valentine's Experience', let's remember how we are loved by friends, family and God. Plan:The Valentine's ExperienceResources needed: 'dressing up' clothes, 2 x Valentine's Cards, CDs (ideally of slushy songs), cheap red wrapping paper, sellotape, flowers), background 'slushy' music on a CD player, small prize, e.g. love hearts. Invite two volunteers to the front. Explain the game - a race to make the perfect Valentine's experience. They must... - Get dressed up (e.g. suit jackets, pretty blouse) - Write a Valentine's card - Wrap up a CD - Run to collect a flower from an obliging teacher across the hall... ... and the first person to present the flower (on bended knee!) to another student in the audience wins the prize. The perfect love story? SUGGESTED FILM CLIP: Show a scene from The Wedding Singer (1998). Robbie has been left at the altar but has headed back to work... as a wedding singer. This is his first experience back at work. DVD REF: Chapter 6, 24:48 - 27:48 Alternatively, share a Valentine's story of your own - ideally an embarrassing one! Talk Once Christmas is over, the shops fill up with Valentine's Day stuff: cards, chocolates, cute little teddy bears... It's really great to be able to celebrate a 'special relationship' between two people. And it's exciting to receive a card, to feel like there are people who are sweet on you. But the flip side can be pretty devastating. What if you're not in a relationship? What if you don't get any cards from secret admirers? Often, the whole experience of February 14th becomes a day of pummeling for your self-esteem. There's something inside all of us that longs to love others, and to be loved by other people. The Bible teaches that God is love and everyone who loves is born of God - in other words, this obsession with love is a human quality put inside us by a God who loves love, and loves to love. Christians believe that each and every one of us has been made by and is loved by God, who gives us the capacity to love others. This Valentine's Day, perhaps we need to be reminded that, no matter how we feel about ourselves, no matter whether or not we've found a 'special someone', we are loved incredibly: by God, by our friends, by others close to us. Final thought / challenge Maybe the trouble with February 14th is that it doesn't go far enough. If you stop and think about it, love is all around us, wherever we have people that we value and cherish. Let's be thankful for this. And this year, why don't you use Valentine's Day to show your friends and family how much you care for them? Author:Submitted by: YFC HQ
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