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Page TRDYouthworker Guide SPEAK LIFE 8 Tobymac’s Speak Life Youth Event ©2014 INTERLiNC. INTERLINC-ONLINE.COM / 800.725.3300 Page Youthworker Guide TRD << Page SPEAK LIFE 8 Tobymac’s Speak Life 9 Youth Event chord chart of Tobymac’s Speak Life song, and that when they turn in their card they’ll get their INTRODUCTION a list of the verses in the Bible that we could lanyard/wristband and a Life Saver candy. find on this subject. (You can use it as a Tobymac is no stranger to members of handout at the end of the event. Cool!) Pre-Activity interlínc’s Youth Leaders Only. We’ve had a Arrange for some games to be available for special relationship with him for well over Opening students to play while final preparations are twenty years—ever since the first days of DC being made inside. Go simple with activities Talk. His music and testimony have been 5-Sensing such as Cornhole, basketball, and featured in interlínc’s YLO, Music Video Loop When does your Speak Life Youth Event start? skateboarding. The last thing you want is for magazines, ConGRADulations! grad gifts, and When the kids walk in the room? No. When kids to show up and then mill around waiting e-zine. interlínc’s long partnership with they pull into the parking lot? Bingo! We’ve for something to happen! Tobymac is born from a common love for included this concept in previous materials teenagers and a desire to share Christ’s love we’ve produced, but it bears repeating: think with them. through what you want the young people to Active Participation: Tongue Relay experience when they first arrive to your event. Get all the students involved in running this We would love to hear your report about how “Tongue” relay. Be sure to have a talented your Speak Life Youth Event went. Please email Imagine you’re a teenager coming to this youth videographer or two on hand to capture the photos, links to your video of the event, and ministry for the first time. Drive into the parking kids while they’re playing. You’ll use that video your description of how it went to lot. What do you see that makes you think this in a bit. [email protected]! event is going to be great? Step out of the car. What will you hear that will reinforce that First, have the kids form teams of four Theme opinion? As you walk toward the building, what members. There are four tasks to be completed Words are the primary way in which we other senses will you pick up that will get you in (one at a time) in this relay. When you give the communicate. Words are powerful—for good the mood to have a great time? GO! signal the first person runs to the table, and for bad. They build up, and they tear down. completes the task, and runs back to the team. This youth event, built around the powerful Here are some preliminary ideas. Rework and As soon as the first player tags the second music video of Tobymac’s Speak Life song, will add to them in order to set your Speak Life player, the process repeats. First team to finish help you engage your students in discovering Youth Event apart from the other experiences all four tasks wins. (You should award a copy of the power of the tongue—and the thumb. your young people have. Tobymac’s Eye On It album to each team – A bustling parking lot • A “Sign In Here” member as a prize!) Here are the four tasks: A teenager’s day is filled with words. From the banner • Chalk outlines of bodies on the – Players race to a table where torrent of words that come from their teachers pavement or cement, leading into the main they are given a maraschino cherry that has a to the flood of words that are transmitted and room • A microphone hooked into a sound stem. They are to eat the cherry, and then tie received over their phones and computers, system, with people taking turns to say positive the stem into a knot—all in their mouth—no words dominate their daily experience— words for all to hear. hands. thousands and thousands of words every day. – Loud, thumping music emanating from – Players race to a table where inside the building • Positive words being said they are given a Life Saver candy. They are to As the wisest of men once wrote, “When words over the sound system outside • Greetings stick the Life Saver on their tongue, and then are many, sin is not absent.” (Proverbs 10:19) from friends (youth group members who arrived run through an obstacle course (which should earlier) involve jumping over and climbing under This event will encourage students to explore – Ummm. Gotta get creative here. objects) all while keeping their tongue stuck out the issue of the tongue and how powerful Taste – Life Saver candy—handed out when with the Life Saver on it. If the Life Saver drops words can be in bringing life or death to people students sign in. off their tongue, they have to go back to the on various levels. – Sign-in card, pencil • Speak Life previous obstacle. lanyard or wristband – Players race to a table where Program they are given a piece of wrapped bubble gum. What follows are a bunch of ideas organized Sign-In (The kind that’s shaped like a block works around a “typical” youth meeting structure. One of the most valuable things you can get great.) They are to pop the gum (wrapped) into That structure is designed to move the crowd from this activity is a bunch of new names, their mouth, unwrap the gum (in their mouth), from high-energy participation to focused addresses, emails, and phone numbers. Make and then chew the gum until they can blow a attention. Think of an inverted pyramid, with the your sign-in procedure as “fun” as possible. bubble at least as big as a ping-pong ball. width of the pyramid representing the energy – Have plenty of Sign-In cards printed – Players race to a table level of the students. You want to start with a up, and hand them out to students as they where they are given a small bowl of pudding. bang, and slowly transition through stages to enter the area. Then have a separate sign-in They have to put the bowl on the floor, kneel where they are quiet and paying attention to table where the cards are turned in. down, and lap the pudding out of the bowl with what is being communicated. – Having Speak Life just their tongue. lanyards or wristbands printed up can be We’ve also included two useful pieces: the relatively inexpensive. Tell the young people ©2014 INTERLiNC. INTERLINC-ONLINE.COM / 800.725.3300 Page TRDYouthworker Guide SPEAK LIFE 10 Tobymac’s Speak Life Youth Event Transition Transition Wrap Up Turn down the lights, crank the sound system Explain that while insults can make for good Lead your group toward a conclusion by and have everyone find a place to sit. If you comedy in movies, they can be destructive in directing them to the actions suggested under have a live band available, they should play a real life. The Bible has a lot to say about the the Live It Out section of the Student Guide. high-energy instrumental. Then pump the power of our words – and Tobymac addresses Write the name of a person or persons whose Speak Life song through the sound system the issue in his powerful new song and video, forgiveness you need to ask for because you while you show the video of the Tongue Relay Speak Life. tore them down with your words – whether and watch the kids laugh and cheer as they see spoken or written. themselves and their friends on the big screen. The Video Play Tobymac’s Speak Life video. Ask your Write the name of a person or persons who you Welcome students to pay attention to the lyrics and any need to proactively “speak life” to in the week Have your best up-front person take the stage concepts communicated visually. ahead, not necessarily because you have and welcome everyone. Briefly describe what mistreated them, but simply because you don’t the Speak Life Youth Event is. Emphasize that Transition do it enough. the theme comes from the song and video by After watching, ask students to share about any Tobymac. lyric or element of the video that stood out to Pray that God will help your group to follow them and why. Then explain that you will be through in reaching out to these people on their Settle Down reading some verses of Scripture to help spark lists with words of humility, grace, Display these insulting phrases from famous a conversation. encouragement, and kindness. movies, and have students guess which film they are from. Make a game of it by awarding Bible Study Follow Up prizes for winners. You can easily find more of Read James 3:3-12 and Ephesians 4:29. Draw Your Speak Life Youth Event doesn’t end when these negative, demeaning movie phrases attention to the Look It Up section of the everyone drives out of the parking lot. In fact, online, if you want to add or replace these with Student Guide and answer these questions as while the heavy lifting is over, you still have a lot others that may better fit your group.