Due to the recent earthquake in Haiti, we changed some things up in EPIC. Here is our outline for the night (thanks to Brian over at Rethinking Youth Ministy for the idea and structure):
1. Students divided up into groups with a leader(s) over each group.
2. I will facilitate the overall meeting but would like you, the leader, to facilitate the
discussion time.
3. Discussion time—Anna Jamieson helped me put a video together about the tragedy along with Pat Roberston’s remarks:
- Where do you think God is in this disaster?
- How would you respond to televangelist Pat Robertson’s comments that the earthquake happened because the Haitian people are cursed for making a pact with the Devil? Is this disaster the result of sin or the shifting of a fault line?
- Read Psalm 60, a psalm of lament. What do you make of this passage? Does it truly reflect God’s character or does it reflect the feelings of the psalmist? Or both?
- Read Psalm 143, a cry for help. When we ask God for help, how do you think the prayer is answered? In what ways do you think prayers for help are being answered in Haiti right now?
4. I would then like for each group to spend some time praying for Haiti, its people, and the rescue/relief workers.
5. I would like to then pull everyone together to come up with a plan as to how we, EPIC, can help the Haitian people.
Two things:
- We are going to partner with Lifeline to get supplies over to the Haitian people.
- Keep praying for the people of Haiti and the relief workers who are there assisting.
