Their world is ugly & getting worse – I want them armed

• Saved, so they can be ready to leave the planet without warning
• Bonded, so they can create their own support network with or without official leaders
• Grounded, so they know they have God to turn to when no one else is around
• Informed, so they can dodge the traps being set for them
• Confident, so they can minister to the people around them
• Prepared, so they can give an answer, or at least have the tools to find the biblical answer

Hot Topics
Location: Church
Schedule: Wednesday Nights
Objective: answer questions & current issues presented by the kids, from bible & experience
Strategy: get their list, contact subject matter experts, develop & publish a schedule
Anticipated Topics:
Sex                  Suicide             Prejudice          Tarot/Ouija/Palmistry
Music               End Times        New Age         War
Drugs               Abortion           Islam                Alternate Religions

Monthly Friday Night Movies
Location: Café or Home
Schedule: 6-9/10, once a month
Objective: provoke thoughtful discussions & biblical perspectives on current topics

Candidates:
Livin’ It – live testimonies from leaders in radical sports (skateboard / bmx)
Left Behind I & II – tribulation
Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom & WWII
Gattaca – what if everyone was made perfect? (genetic engineering)
Harrison Bergeron (?) – what if everyone was made equal?  (enforced equality)
Selected Twilight Zone episodes:
–         the obsolete librarian
–         number 12 looks like you

“Why Not” Party

Location: Church, Café, or Home
Objective: object lessons in self control
Candidates:
Gambling: slot dice & m&m’s  (they’ll run out of m&m’s)
Addictions: bowls of chocolate & chips…  view…smell…taste one…ok, one more…
Dating: Paper hearts – tearing pieces off
Masking tape – what it can bond to after bonding to people, pictures, things…
Fine chocolate – passed around & smashed vs fresh – which would you rather be/give?