Attached to this post is a free youth ministry lesson on Spiritual Warfare Ephesians 6:10-18. It Includes 3 songs on the powerpoint: Tell The World, Glorious One, and All Because of Jesus – you will need to look them up if you don’t know them but the words are on the slides for [...]]]>

Attached to this post is a free youth ministry lesson on Spiritual Warfare Ephesians 6:10-18. It Includes 3 songs on the powerpoint: Tell The World, Glorious One, and All Because of Jesus – you will need to look them up if you don’t know them but the words are on the slides for you. Please feel free to add and or change anything in it.

I had a pretty good Iron Man video clip but too big to upload so replace with a clip of your own or something else. Also please let me know if you have any trouble with the PowerPoint – I need to know stuff like that.

Iron Man Youth Ministry Ideas Lesson

The most searched thing on my site is for lessons and I wanted to share with you for a limited time, for the next 3 days, I will come up with a lesson for you and your youth ministry.

Just give me the topic you want or else I will make up whatever. The Lesson [...]]]>

The most searched thing on my site is for lessons and I wanted to share with you for a limited time, for the next 3 days, I will come up with a lesson for you and your youth ministry.

Just give me the topic you want or else I will make up whatever. The Lesson will be Powerpoint based and have 3 points to the lesson. It will just be a Powerpoint and not handouts and written word document on the lesson. So just pray about what topic you are going to want and then follow the steps below to get your free Powerpoint lesson from me:

• Copy this code: <a href=http://www.youthministryideas.net>Youth Ministry</a>
• Paste the code on your blog or website (it does not have to be in a high visible spot) also im sorry but it can’t be facebook.
• Or if you know how to put a link on your site instead of copying and pasting code - just place a link somewhere on your youth site or blog back to my site but have the keyword for the link to be: Youth Ministry (notice how when you click on Youth Ministry it comes to my site)
• Or if you are a fellow blogger just make a post and somewhere in your post place key word Youth Ministry in it somewhere linking back to my site. Your post does not have to be about my site – it can simply just be a link within your post.
• Once you have done this showing me where the link is by contacting me
• I will then be in touch about working on your lesson for you!

That’s It!

Years ago we did a foot washing ceremony during a short-term mission trip.  It was one of the most powerful moments of the trip, and it was a power image of biblical servanthood.   It quickly became a staple of our annual summer mission trip.  We’ve done this ceremony yearly [...]]]>

Years ago we did a foot washing ceremony during a short-term mission trip.  It was one of the most powerful moments of the trip, and it was a power image of biblical servanthood.   It quickly became a staple of our annual summer mission trip.  We’ve done this ceremony yearly for nearly 15 years, and in that time we have come up with a mostly seamless process for pulling off this ceremony.  This process works best with a group smaller than 20.  When I have had larger groups I split into groups smaller than 20, and I place a leader in each group to begin the ceremony.

You will need:

1. Music. I have used a worship mix from an ipod and speakers, and I have used a live musician.
2. A Bible
3. A chair for each participant.
4. A plastic (waterproof) shoebox sized box for each participant
5. A bottle of water for each participant.
6. A small travel sized tube of shampoo or soap for each participant.
7. A small washcloth for each participant.
8. A bit of darkness and candles help the mood.

The set up:

I set all the chairs in a circle facing inward leaving a bit of space between each chair.  Under each chair I put a shoebox sized plastic box.  Inside each box I put a water bottle, shampoo or soap, and a small washcloth.

Introduction:

Before walking the teens to the place where the ceremony will be, I instruct them that this ceremony is to be done reverently and in silence.  Once all are seated I grab my Bible and stand in the middle of the circle.  I instruct the teens to take off their socks and shoes.

“Tonight we are going to have our foot washing ceremony.  This ceremony goes back to the time of Christ, and Christians throughout the centuries have continued to do this.  It would be very easy to giggle and make light of this time, but do you best to take it seriously.  Also I know some of you are uncomfortable with people touching your feet, or maybe if you are like me you are ticklish.  To you all I can say is suck-it-up.  You will be blessed by doing so.  I will wash the feet of a person in this circle.  When I am finished I will give that person a hug, and they will wash someone else’s feet. This will continue until the last person washes my feet.”

Next I grab my Bible and begin reading aloud John 13:1-17

Scripture:

 1 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

 2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

 7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

 8 “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”

   Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

 9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”

 10 Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.

 12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

The foot washing:

Once I have finished reading the scripture I have a leader hit play on the ipod.  I put my Bible in my chair and walk to one of the youth.

1. I kneel in front of the youth
2. I pour water from their water bottle into their plastic box
3. I take their first foot, and I place it in the water.
4. I use the soap to wash their foot.  I set an example to the group by washing their foot very well.
5. I rinse the soap off of their foot
6. I use the washcloth to dry their foot.
7. I do the same process for the second foot.

Once I am finished I stand up and hug the student.  Then I sit in their chair and they go to the next teen.

When every person has had his or her feet washed the last person will wash my feet.  After my feet are clean and I hug them I grab my Bible again.  I stand in the middle of the group, and read John 13:12-17

 John 13:12-17 

12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

 “You may now leave this area.  Please go in silence.”

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