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Any suggestions for a series of Wednesday night Youth dinners?
We're doing a four week study on Jesus' parables. It's inspired by the church described in Acts that devoted itself to the apostle's teaching, the breaking of bread, and prayer. We're going to have dinner together, study the parables, and end in worship. Has anyone done this kind of thing before? Do you have any suggestions?
I hope God blesses your ministry and I hope you ask much of your students!
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I've done something similar to this. We put on another Thanksgiving Feast. I definitely honored my wife to being able to cook for almost 20 kids on her own. Food turned out great and seeing the students response was priceless.
The cool thing was that I took all my living room furniture out and turned the TV and we sat down together and to me it was a big family meal. It was great! Again PRICELESS just being able to share a meal with them.
Suggestions definitely be prepared ahead of time. My wife was supposed to have help, but they all for some reason canceled. My job was to clean house and go pick all the students up in the church van and bring them.
This was fun, everyone while eating read the story of breaking bread during our dinner
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Depending on numbers. We do a series of progressive dinners. Each groups starts at one location for salads, then moves to a second location for main course, 3rd location for dessert. It is less intimidating for adults to volunteer if they have the ability to cook part of a meal for a group rather then the entire meal. I have seen groups end in worship and dessert at the church. You can be incredibly creative and do a traveling dinner with local resturants as well (example from a church in town.) Depending on town size, and numbers. |
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That's actually kinda the informal format of all our high school small groups each week. They meet in homes, the leaders and/or parents cook a great dinner that they all eat together, then they go into Bible Study followed by time in prayer together. |
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Having food is always a good thing with students (or adults for that matter). We have done stuff like that in the past and it worked out pretty well. The topic will work with students because the parables are fairly easy to work through but carry a powerful message. |
