LWML LOVES TEENS

Friends Into Serving Him groups are forming all across the nation and the women of LWML couldn’t be happier to be “serving the Lord with gladness”….with teens!

Here are some ideas that Friends Into Serving Him groups can use to share their love with those around them this spring. Use one or use them all! And if you have great ideas of your own, please let us know. Email them to dephc@lwml.org

Servant Activities

Finals Care Packages

Send care packages to your congregations college students for their spring semester finals. Possible items to include are microwave popcorn, candy, trail mix, a devotion or prayer book. (Perhaps the LMWL “A Woman’s Praying Heart” book available in the catalog.). Be creative and be sure to include a personal note to keep it special.

Thank you gifts for Sunday School or Lutheran Dayschool teachers

A small pot of annual flowers or homemade snack can make a thoughtful “thank you” to the teachers in our congregations. Here is a possible poem to include:

You’ve studied many Saturday nights,
Getting our lessons set and just right.
You’ve told us of Jesus and His love,
And our future heavenly home above.
Thank you for the love you share,
With all the children in your care.

MITEy Ideas

Plant Swap

Invite women from your congregation (or community) to bring cuttings from their perennial plants and swap with others for a free will donation for your group or Mites. Be sure to share God’s word at this event. A Bible verse on an index card can easily be attached to a plastic fork and pushed into the soil.

Snacks

Fruit Pizza

Start with a pie crust baked flat on a cookie sheet. (About 10 minutes at 450 degrees) Let cool.
Spread cream cheese on the crust and let the fun begin.
Supply grapes, berries, kiwi, bananas, and even coconut. Pizza can be made to look like a face, a mosaic design, or the Friends Into Serving Him logo!

Flower blossoms

Large refrigerator biscuits and jelly are all you need.
Cut biscuits as shown. Add jam to the center and bake as directed. A fun quick treat!

Bible Study Activity

Exercising to the Word
By Karol Selle

As the Bible verses are read…do the action that is given in the verse.

Genesis 13:17	Arise, walk! (Stand and walk in place.)
Matthew 10:14	Shake off the dust from your feet. (Shake each foot.)
Psalm 47:1	Clap your hands all you people. (Clap hands.)
Psalm 141:2	And the lifting up of my hands….(Lift hands upward.)
Isaiah 47:5	Sit in silence. (Sit down and be quiet for 10 seconds.)
Psalm 24:7	Lift up your heads. (Lift head upward.)
Psalm 35:23	Awake and rise to my defense. (Rise.)
Exodus 15:21	Sing to the Lord. (Sing the Doxology or other song of praise.)
Exodus 3:5	Put off your shoes from your feet. (Take off shoes.)
Philippians 4:21	Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. (Salute each other.)
Psalm 139:2a	You know when I sit down. (Sit.)
Psalm 139:2b	…and when I rise up. (Stand.)
Hebrews 12:12a	Therefore lift your drooping hands. (Lift hands.)
Hebrews 12:12b	…and strengthen your weak knees. (Do knee bends.)
Acts 3:4	Look at us. (Look at each other and smile.)
Luke 6:21	For you shall laugh. (Laugh.)
Psalm 89:1	I will sing of the love of the Lord. (Sing Jesus Loves Me.)
Jeremiah 8:14	Why do we sit still? (Sit quietly)
Proverbs 24:33	A little folding of the hands… (Say a quick prayer.)
Genesis 19:2	Rise up early. (Stand quickly.)
Philippians 3:14	I run straight toward the goal. (Run in place.)
Ecclesiastes 3:5	A time to embrace… (Hug each other.)

You’ve had a good workout. Take a few deep breaths and sit down once more. Listen to one final verse that will provide strength for each day of your life:

…the God of all grace, who has called us to His eternal glory in Chirst, will Himself restore, establish and strengthen you. To Him be the dominion for ever and ever (I Peter 5:10-11).

Scriptures taken from several translations. Adapted from a devotion by Edna Haeder, 1984.

It’s in the Box

Place a mirror in a box. Write “God’s Love” on the box. Everyone form a circle, and give them each a paper and pencil. Say: Sometimes we feel lonely and unloved. During hard times, we wonder if God really loves us. Well, inside this box is the one thing you need to receive God’s love. On your paper write what you think that one ting is. Discuss answers. Open the box. Pass around the box without speaking. Then read aloud Jeremiah 31:3 and Romans 8:38-39. The only thing you need to receive god’s love is you! You can come to him just as you are, because he loves you for who you are. So when you look in the mirror, you see who God wants-YOU!