Weekend Teaching Series:
Love – Dating (week 4 of 9)

Sermon Message:
We can choose to pursue true love in a relationship that is built on God’s truths and teachings for our lives. God wants us to experience deep, meaningful relationships—but like everything we do, it’s life-giving when we follow God’s plan and destructive when we don’t.

Main Scripture:
Ephesians 5:25-30

Main Game:
Top Ten Lists
Using a prepared Top Ten list, ask three different volunteers to take one of the Top 10 lists and each read them out to the group. To spice it up, like Jeff Foxworthy does with his redneck jokes, end each one with the title. (ex. ‘Valentine’s gift to you was dental floss. You must be dating the wrong person.)

Favorite Moment:
The high school and middle school groups broke up into small groups by gender and we really were able to be open and authentic with the students and had some pretty meaningful conversations.

Weekend Teaching Series:
Love – Family (week 3 of 9)

Sermon Message:
The family is a primary part of God’s creation for the purpose of training, fellowship, and love. That training begins with rules and respect and that fellowship is something that can last a lifetime. We recognize that no family is perfect, but daily living in an atmosphere of Christian love and Christlikeness is what makes the family truly Christian.

Main Scripture:
Matthew 12:46-50

Main Game:
Pennies Go Around
Ask for two volunteers to come up. Give each student a popsicle stick and put two stacks of ten pennies on a table. They need to start with the popsicle in their mouth and the goal is to put all ten pennies on their popsicle stick, one at a time, and then spin around five times. If they drop any pennies at any time of the process, they need to start over, with all of the pennies on the table. First one to complete the process, wins.

Favorite Moment:
Great discussion with the high school students as they came to understand why love for our family is different and in some ways, more important, that friendship.

Weekend Teaching Series:
Love – Friends (week 2 of 9)

Sermon Message:
Friendships are extremely important, both to Christians and teenagers and we need to have good friendships that are long- lasting and edifying to yourself and them. When we have this, life is better and God is happier.

Main Scripture:
2 Corinthians 7:5-7

Main Game:
Caddy Stack
Ask for two volunteers to come up front. The goal is to stack three golf balls one atop the other. The first person to do this wins.

Favorite Moment:
Both the high school and middle school clubs had Justin Beiber conversations. “OMG, I love him” was the main comments of the night.

Weekend Teaching Series:
What Is Love? (week 1 of 9)

Sermon Message:
Jesus’ entire ministry was based on love, from leaving heave to come to earth all the way to His selfless and sinless death on the cross. We as Christians need to understand that we have been asked to love everyone else.

Main Scripture:
John 21:15-19

Main Game:
iPod Karaoke
Before the club starts, ask two volunteers as backup if they would be willing to do this if no students are willing to do the game. Ask for two volunteers that “Want to be the next USAFA Chapel Idol!” When they come up, explain that they will be singing, one at a time, to the song “What Love Got To Do With It” by Tina Turner and that they will be able to hear the music from the iPod with the headphones, but all we will hear is them singing. When the first person sings, the second person should be out of the room where they cannot hear the first person. After both have sung, poll the audience on who did the best job.

Favorite Moment:
I have been at a conference all week and so just the faith and trust I have in my volunteers to continue ministry in my absence is wonderful!