| Submitted by: klhlott@montana.com
An Evening with
the Savior
Last night we held
an activity that went so amazingly. I got the idea off of another list,
but you may have seen it here as well. This is how it went. The Sunday
before the activity I made beautiful invitations (stamped) for each
young woman. For the Young Women who weren't there, I had the girls
deliver to those they knew. It was Sunday Dress & held in the Relief
Society Room. I titled the activity, An Evening with the Savior. I
asked 3 women in our ward to speak. The program went like this:
Opening Song:
I Believe in Christ
Prayer
1st speaker:
The signs of Christ's birth & his birth
2nd speaker:
The greatest teachings of Christ during his mortality & the washing of
the Disciples feet.
3rd speaker:
The Atonement, Cruxificition, & Resurrection
The
Music:
His Hands by Kenneth Cope (I had typed the words out so all the girls
could follow along)
Service Demonstration
All of
the Leaders who work in Young Women served the girls by washing their
hands & then putting a
wonderfully
scented lotion on them afterwards.
Submitted by: Leslie - For this
activity we had all the lights off & the room was lit by Lamps only. It
was such a spiritual experience & I could tell the girls were very
touched by the hand washing. I prayed that Heavenly Father would help
this activity be a spiritual experience for the girls & its because of
Him that it was.
Submitted by: Laurie - I told the
story of
the statue of Christ that was nearly destroyed in Europe and was
restored all except for the hands and the townspeople made a commitment
to be "his hands". I had one of our talented moms sing "His hands" and
we told the story of the
famous artist who did the "Praying hands" painting who was able to go
to art school because his brother worked in the mines and supported him
and then when it was his turn, his hands were too damaged to pursue it.
Then we had all the YW leaders one side of a table and we soaked the
girls hands and then rubbed lotion on their hands as we spoke softly to
them and told them how much we loved and appreciated them. While there
girls were waiting, we shown the film Joy to the world (You could do
Lamb of God or Faith in Christ for Easter). We handed out little bottles
of lotion ($.50 at Wal-Mart) with the saying about how God uses our
hands to do his work ( I can't remember it offhand). It turned out to
be a wonderful and spiritual lesson and could be done on a weeknight
just as well.
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