Baby Night

This week's theme for youth group was Baby Night. We started off the night with devotions, where we focused on the passage in Hebrews 5 that says, "Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." We challenged the students to look where they are at in their walk with the Lord. Are they in the beginning where they need to be drinking the milk and focusing on the elementary teachings in the Bible? Or have they been a Christian for a while and it's now time for them to move onto more solid food and take the initiative to be in God's word and grow past the elementary teachings. Even in the 2 1/2 short months that we've been here, we've already seen a lot of growth among the youth. They are asking so many good questions and they are hungry to learn more about God's word.

All of the games revolved around things that babies do. We had a great time coming up with all of the games! Here are a few pictures from the night.

For the first game, there was one student who was picked to be the "baby." The baby then had to go to the mums (that's how they say mom here) to get taken care of. One mom had to put on a Nappy (diaper), the next mom had to put the bib on the baby, next the mum had to feed the baby. The bottles each had coke in them. Then the baby had to be burped and finally the bib had to be taken off. Once all of this was complete, the baby had to crawl back to the starting line. The first team to finish won. Unfortunately, there was a lot of rug burn!!

The next game was called Nappy clean up. The students had to eat crunchy peanut butter out of a nappy. Gross....

This game was called Messy Nappy. Earlier in the day, Sean and I melted 4 different kinds of chocolate bars and placed them in the nappies. The students had to guess what chocolate bars they were. Afterwards, some of them wanted to eat the chocolate out of the nappies.

The last game was an obstacle course. At the beginning of the race, the students had to put on a nappy and hop with a potato sack. Some other things they had to do throughout the race were putting on a bib, drinking a bottle, eating baby food and spitting a dummy (pacifier) through a hoop. It was a great night!!