Icebreakers
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Some ice-breakers are
ships, some are phrases or games or ways of making people relax. Here at Bethel we have our own
‘Ice-Breakers’ who are a group of 12-16 year olds (plus a couple of ‘oldies’)
who meet each Sunday morning in the new rooms while the ‘preachy part’ is taking
place in the chapel. We meet in our own room
which becomes our ‘space’ for about an hour each week and we use the time to
chat about life, share news and info, catch up with friends who we
haven’t seen for a few day and
generally just have a good ‘get together’.
Every week, once we’ve downloaded anything that we want to talk about
or chatted about something that we think is great or concerns us, we take a
subject and try to look at it from the viewpoint of being a Christian. The stuff we talk through and the subjects
we cover are so wide ranging that its difficult to put them all into one
‘box’ but the sessions are always lively, often controversial and regularly
go off into areas that we didn’t think about at the start. Recently we’ve looked at stuff like Harry
Potter, The Matrix, Hunger and even Action Man!! As we did in 2003, at
some point in 2004 we hope to be doing another 24 hour famine where we go
without food for 24 hours and raise money for ‘World Vision’ which is a
Christian charity working in third world countries. This year we’re trying to raise enough
money to help provide clean water in paces like Ice-Breakers is never
pressurised or forced on people but is hopefully a place where young people
can feel safe and valued and learn a little bit more about being alive and
being a Christian in the 21st Century. Phil Whitehouse |
