Share your Sabbath Testimony

Create a short video or social media post and share what Sabbath means to you and why you love the Sabbath!
For example: Is it the chance to get out in nature? Perhaps it’s being able to switch off from the stress of work or study? Share what a blessing Sabbath is to you and invite others to try it too!

Donate 100 Billion Dollars

Muses to yourself or with friends what causes you would donate 100 Billion US dollars to if you were leaving that much behind in your will. Be very specific how the money is to be used.

Have a Phone Photo Memory Hunt

Great particularly for the end of the year, as a group have everyone pull out their phone and searches for their best image of the announced topic. Then, one by one, show the photo around and share with the group the reason/story behind the photo chosen. You can award prizes for the 'best' of each round.

• Something you’re thankful for
• Funny/amusing moment involving animals
• Trivially tragic moment
• Funny/amusing moment involving people
• Furthest you got from home
• Funny sign/words
• Inspiring words
  
• Most beautiful plant or scenery photo
• A photo that relates to Jesus
  

Donate Blood

Do a study on the symbology of blood in the Bible and then take your family, or some church friends, to donate blood so that others can live.

Run a Home Sabbath School

Know of some kids who can’t get to Sabbath school? Do a video ‘chat’, or phone call, Sabbath school with them. Take turns reading a Bible story or a lesson study together. Take turns asking a Bible/nature questions of each other. A nature hunt could work too where you share your finds. In fact, a lot of our Sabbath ideas would work via video chat too!

List the Miracles in The Bible

Without looking up an existing list, try and list as many miracles as you can from either the entire Bible or restricted to Jesus miracles. Then use your Bible to find some you've missed.
How many can you list?

Play With Thunder

If there's a thunderstorm try these:

• Time how long it is between a lightning flash and the following thunder and see if it's getting closer.
• Multiply the seconds between the lightning and thunder by the speed of sound - and you'll know how far away each lightning strike was.
• Using a decibel app, measure how loud the thunder is and see if it's getting louder. 
• USe a light meeter and see if the lightning is getting brighter.
  
• Keep recording the distances, and loudness, and plot them. You could figure out the speed the storm is moving and loudness at different distances.
• Look up 'thunder' in the Bible - see what you find.

Have a Faith Race

Have a route set up for blindfolded people to be lead around in an exercise of faith and trust. Have some 'dangerous' parts to the course, like puddles or bushes, that will make the blindfolded person hesitant to run near such things quickly without being able to see for themselves. The faster the course is completed, especially if attempted again, shows growing faith in their guide.
Maybe then try the course blindfolded without a guide - see how much slower it is when you try and do things on your own without following your guide...

Have a Hiking Church

Run a full church service program while you’re on a long walk or hike with you family or church group, with different people leading the different parts of a church service. Include a welcome, announcements, children’s story etc. Allocate parts of the program to people beforehand so they can prepare, or, for extended time passing, have couples plan their parts of the mobile program together during the walk.

Tip: The person presenting their part should be walking towards the back of the group so everyone in front can hear their voice traveling forward.

Make an Acrostic Poem

Create an acrostic poem where the first letter of each line spells out someone’s name or something God created. 

Here’s one my daughter created: 

Sabbath is a very special day

And God created it for us to rest

Back a long time ago God made the earth in 6 days

But the seventh day was a day of rest.

And we still rest on 

The seventh day. Sabbath.

Happy day!

-Ally W

Create a Reverse Bucket List

While a bucket list is a list of things to achieve before you kick the bucket (Die) a reverse bucket list is creating a list of amazing things you're thankful you have experienced already through your life.
List all the amazing places and animals and plants and experiences you've encountered and enjoyed through your life. Imagine what this list will look like a trillion years into the future!

Create a Creation Bucket List

Create a list of God's creation you want to see before you die (kick the bucket).
It could be visiting spectacular waterfalls or National Parks around the world or seeing specific animals or plants, or seeing the northern lights or volcanoes. Create a list - and then work towards experiencing some of them in the years ahead!

Create Animal Tracks

Look up the tracks of different animals and at the beach, snow, sand pit, on a dusty track or even drawn on paper, make animal tracks as realistic as possible. If you get good at it you could even create evidence of a progressive story that can be ‘read’ from the animal tracks left behind.

Look for Rock Layers

Go looking for rock layers. count how may layers you can see at one spot and note if they are different materials. See if you can notice the same thickness/material layers around the area. Take photos and draw lines on them defining the rock layers. See if you can find an area where the layers twisted/distorted before they set hard.

Guess the Whistled Tune

See if your friends can name the Christian tune you're whistling, and vice versa. Perhaps see how many Christian tunes you can whistle and have the others guess within a minute. Alternatively, whistle only 5 seconds of songs and see if others can guess what they are? Do you think your Guardian angel is a good whistler? In fact, they can play along and guess your whistled songs too - only you'll have to wait until heaven to hear how well they scored.

Set a New Week’s Resolution

Set a new week’s resolution of what good thing you want to start in the week to come (or bad habit to avoid). At the start of a new year many set a new year’s resolution - only to fail (often quickly) and then it’s a long time until setting a resolution again. A new week’s resolution sounds far more effective, yes?

Learn to Make Bird Calls

Listen to and study the specific tones within a bird call, either from live birds or a recording found on the internet. Then work on trying to mimic that bird call as best you can.

Give a Compliment

Think back through the past week's events at church, work, home etc and send a message complementing people for their efforts and how well they did or how much you enjoyed or needed what they did.

Create A Podcast

Decide on a style and the general content of  a Podcast 'show' (funny, serious, nature, theology, social justice etc) and who will feature as the hosts and guests, then plan a series of episodes. After that get recording and share with you family, friends, church and the world!

Set a World Record

Think of an achievement you can do to set a world record (even if it’s only a world record in your own opinion). Make the world’s biggest offering bag, play the most verses of a hymn without stopping, letterbox the most houses in an afternoon for a church program, recite the books of the bible the fastest (forwards or backwards), find the most different animals inside an hour, or think of you own idea. It could be done on your own but even better to include many people, or as a fund raiser for a church project.