Click below to download the Cornerstone Connections leader’s guide and student lesson. This week’s resources also include two lesson plans and a discussion starter video which offer different ways of looking at the topic. Each lesson plan includes opening activities, scripture passages, discussion questions, and real-life applications.
An icebreaker or something to get people focused as you begin.
Show the participants a series of original photographs (you will have to take
most of these high-definition photos yourself). For each scene or object that you photograph, have three different versions of it. The first should be a very, very close shot of it. The second is a very close shot of it. The third is just a close shot.
If your Sabbath School has more than four to five people, split them into two teams, such as guys versus girls. Start with the first scene or object in your series and show one team the very, very close photo of it. Give them an opportunity to guess what the object is. If they don’t get it right, offer the other team the same opportunity for the same amount of points. If neither individual/team guesses it correctly, show the next photo—the very close photo— and follow the same procedure. If they still can’t correctly guess what the object is, show the groups the close photo. If they can’t identify what the object is at that point, you can give them the answer (you can have a slideshow with the answers for all 10 objects if you want).
Give out points in the following manner:
We have provided one set of three pictures you can use for this activity. You can download it as a PDF or a Power Point below.
Print out copies of the mazes found at this end of this lesson and see how long it takes your Youth Sabbath School participants to complete them correctly. You can make this a contest by giving each person the same maze and having them begin at the same time, or by giving different people different mazes and seeing which people finish which mazes first. You can come up with all kinds of variations, such as having people work in teams of two, starting one group ten seconds ahead of another one, etc.
You can download free mazes of varying difficulty at PrintableMazes.net.
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TRANSITION: As we consider today’s lesson, “Long, Strange Trip,” recall how important something might have been to you when you were a child. For example, some children think they really, really, really need a pony. But that may seem silly to you now. Is it possible that some things that seem very important to you right now might fade in importance as time passes? We live one moment at a time, but sometimes it’s helpful to take a bigger or longer look, especially when your life is like a “long, strange trip.”
