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! Ideas for CHURCH RECREATION by Jim Slevcove, Pastor Y.R .C .A . Table Tennis Fun T T T T e r e are some ideas that will put your ping pong table to work. Besides regular competitive table tennis games and tournaments, other activities can be conducted with in creased participation and hilarity. BLOW BALL Divide the group into two teams and have them kneel around the ping pong table so their lips are about table high. The leader drops a ping pong ball in the center of the table and each team tries to blow the ball off the table on their opponent’s side. PING LAI The idea for this game is taken from the popular Mexican sport, Jai Lai. Regular table tennis rules are fol lowed and any number can play. First, two players begin and play until a miss. The loser of the point goes to the end of a line of partici pants. The player at the head of the line plays the person who won the last point and this operation contin ues. A person plays until he misses and then he goes to the end of the line to wait his next turn. This is a good activity because a new player competes each time a point is scored. The first to reach twenty one points is the winner. CIRCLE PING PONG This is a hilarious game where as many as ten can play at one time. Players are divided into two teams and they stand at either end of the table. Player at extreme right, or No. 1, on side “ A,” serves the ball across the net, drops his paddle on table, and immediately progresses around the table (counter clockwise and assumes his place as No. 5 on side “ B” which makes each player move one space to the right. (more table tennis ideas on page 58) Meantime I have a suggestion for your own personal problem and it is this: Find a fellow who feels just as you do about these things, who believes that it does not please God for young people who are not married—or even engaged—to go in for love-making, and double-date with a cou ple of girls who are careful about these things too. It might be difficult to work out the matter of a car. If you can get a car to yourselves, that would be best. If not, the four of you can go with others, and set a good example before them. I know this is not easy to do, and that you may come in for ridicule, but stand your ground and God will bless you. When your group become fathers and mothers, I you will be mighty glad you did.
Aunt Betty
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RULES: You must be 13-19; you must give nam e, address and ages, but only first nam e and city will be used. Letters will be regarded as confidential. Send to this colum n in care of The King's Business. Christian Morals Dear Aunt Betty: Please don’t use my first name or my city. I have a big problem that bothers me all the time but 1 don’t want to involve anybody else. W e have a bunch of real wonderful Christian kids in our church and something is always being planned for us like youth meetings, steak fries, and even meetings in missions where we give our testimonies, etc. Our church is real strict and none of the kids go to shows or dance or drink or smoke. W e have two married couples as sponsors for our group. They take turns baby-sitting for each other so there is always one couple with us, and they always go in their own car. But the trouble is they don’t know what goes on in the cars to and from these good times we have. What I mean is the smooching that goes on. It really makes me sick sometimes. M y dad and mother have talked to me a lot about necking and Dad says, “Keep your hands off girls till you are ready to get married.” Mom says, “Love-making is for folks in love and who are going to build a home.” At first 1 thought they were old-fashioned but now I know they are right. The fellows that are always hugging and kissing the girls don’t have any respect for them for they laugh about them all the time. If I sit in the back of the car beside a girl, the guy in front will turn around and want to know what is wrong with me because I don’t have my arm around a girl. Some of the girls snuggle up too, but not all of them do. One girl thanked me last week for being “a gentleman as well as a Christian.” Boy, what a remark! I asked my folks if I ought to tell the sponsors what goes on and they said that I would just be put down as a tattletale. Don’t you think this is just as bad as go ing to shows and other worldly things? Can you suggest any solution? Name & Address withheld by request M y dear Christian Friend: Yes, I do think this is “ just as bad as going to shows.” It is a deadly practice which destroys the spiritual life of young and old. Those who indulge in promis cuous love-making not only lose their re spect for each other, but also soon lose respect for their own bodies and go into sin, which means the end of their influ ence for Christ and their fellowship with Him. I hope that you will keep your ideals as a Christian and a gentleman all your life, and if you do, I predict for you a very happy home some day. I trust that this situation among the young peo ple in your church will soon come to the attention of your pastor and others who will do something about it before some young lives are ruined. Believe me, every body will know about it then and no one will be spared!
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