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Holiday Club 2002

Going Bananas!

What is Going Bananas?

GOING BANANAS! is designed by Scripture Union to be part of an ongoing strategy for work with children in a church setting.

Welcome to the exotic holiday club package with a tropical feel and the emphasis definitely on holiday! Courtesy of Anywhere Airways, five to eleven year olds fly off to Banana Island where they will learn about God in a relevant, exciting and fun-filled way. The holiday club venue will first become the airport departure lounge to which the Passengers (children) gain access via Passport Control (registration). They will then sit with their Cabin Crew (group leaders) in the specially chartered 747 waiting for take-off. To begin each day's programme, the Captain (club co-ordinator) talks the Passengers through their 'flight' to Banana Island. As they touch down, the Banana Boys (two pantomime-style characters) appear to present the rest of the programme from the beach (stage area). The venue has now become Banana Island. These are leaps of imagination that children find much easier to make than adults do!

NOT-SO-LAZY TROPICAL DAYS

The visit to the island includes singing with the Banana Band, a Bible story from the GOING BANANAS! video, Banana Bunches (small-group times), Banana Splits (refreshments), Bananabrains (a Quiz), Mashed Bananas (games), Banana Skins (zany activities), and Bananaerobics. No one will want to miss the Time Shed with all its strange surprises. While all this is going on, the Cabin Crew and Passengers need to watch out for the Banana Piranha! To follow up the day's teaching, every passenger completes a Postcard Home. At the end of the session, the Passengers take the 'return flight' before Disembarkation (dismissal). The Passengers exit through Passport Control to await collection by their families.
Primarily an outreach programme for unchurched children, GOING BANANAS! aims to teach them basic truths about God and introduce them to him through Jesus. The Bible characters they will meet during the week may seem to have 'gone bananas', but in fact the sanest thing that anyone can do is to love and trust God, and to live his way.


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