How have you illustrated the 40/3000 in messages, talks, etc...
40/3000 illustration
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Posted 2 years ago #
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At our church we used large gumballs of different colors in large glass jars to represent the 3000 and had one small jar of orange gumballs to represent the 40... our children's pastor held the jar of 40 while he talked about the 5 Things Every Kid Needs in his sermon on Sunday. Then he talked about the importance of the family's role and unveiled the cart behind him with lots and lots of huge jars filled with the same size gumballs. There was an audible gasp from the audience as they realized the significance of those numbers. We kept the jars on display for years... kids have stopped asking for gumballs from the jars now since they have been there so long that they are not only stale but rock hard! ;o)
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Love that gumball idea!!!
Loved the orange ping pong ball illustration at Orange too. Loved it so much we came back and used to illustrate a need for summer volunteers. Added up the # of volunteers we needed for summer (we give our regulars the summer off); had one jar filled with that # of ping pong balls and then an empty container. Told everyone that each ping pong ball represented a slot we needed to fill and asked them to take one for everytime they could volunteer, write their name on it, and drop it in the other container. Our summer was fully staffed! Praise God!
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We recently used tennis balls (during a tennis-themed series)......one of our prop guys poured them out and they flowed down the stage.
We also love the ping-pong ball effect....with the right crowd, you can drop them from the rafters.
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Do any of you have pics of your display or even the event you showed the colored balls/gumballs?
Thanks!
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We used the traditional red/yellow gumballs as part of a tag-teamed sermon with me and the pastor. We are trying to figure out a way to display them permanently, but 3,000 gumballs is heavy and they need to be out of reach.
FYI - it has been on display in my office over the last few months, and I decided to count the yellow gumballs...I thought it was looking a little anemic...sure enough, there were only 23 gumballs...now I don't know who's been sneaking gumballs out, but I dread having to count the red ones to verify there are still 3,000!
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Our church needed a VERY inexpensive way to illustrate the 40/3000. So, we used Goldfish Crackers in a fishbowl. We put 40 in a small glass and the 3000 in a giant fishbowl. It was a very effective way to talk to our volunteers and we tied it into the scriptures that talk about being "fishers of men". It wasn't very elaborate but it still communicated the message well.
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We also needed an inexpensive way (and quick) to demonstrate it so we used Red Hots & Lemon Heads. But everyone thought they were marbles...the candy choice has limited the number of thefts
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I've also used the gumball illustration in a church where I had been the children's director. It wasn't too expensive because I purchased the gumballs online through a wholesale company that provides the large gumballs to candy vendors. I think it was OK Manufacturing. Their website is: http://www.gumballs.net/ We got 3000 red ones and bought the minimum number of yellow ones, since we really only needed the 40 (those extra yellow ones were also available to munch on, so none of our 3000 red ones would go missing). We did the similar illustration having our pastor talk about the 40 hours and hold up the small candy jar with the just the 40 yellow gumballs, and then we had some strong guys carry in large glass candy jars filled with the 3000 red ones and they placed them on stage on a table when we discussed the 3000 hours that parents have. Also, we had an extra jar of orange gumballs to show how impactful the red and yellow combined makes. So at the end when we talked about how the red & yellow create orange, another volunteer brought in a large jar with only orange gumballs. After the Sunday morning illustration, to store them, we put them all on the top shelves of our pastor's office, where we also had staff meetings. They were out of reach of little ones, but in view of everyone on staff during each of our staff meetings.
Another church I've been apart of used red and yellow M&Ms as a way to illustrate this, and it was just as effective and maybe even less expensive than the gumballs.
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Will this video be any help? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuxkZ2KLDds
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We designed a large calendar that has all the 2010 months/days on it, and we put 40 yellow dots on Sundays and 3000 dots on all the other days. We're going to print it large (almost 8'x8') and use it as a stage backdrop. Here are the files in case you can use them:
http://www.nickblevins.com/CalendarLarge.zip
http://www.nickblevins.com/CalendarMedium.zipI have the original Photoshop (old version) files if anybody needs them.
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It is now 4 months since we did the illustration and we still have sooooo many gumballs left! We give them out at each Family Experience night and it surprises me that everyone - kids and parents and staff - are still so excited to get a gumball.
The illustration worked well too and I think I will do something similar just before Kick off Sunday every September.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I used pony beads and was able to purchase them in packs of 1000 from my local craft store for about $3 a bag. I then bought some jars from Crate and Barrel and it turned out great and didn't take up a lot of room. We are a new church and didn't have a lot of $ to spend and we are in a very small space. I also wanted it to sit out on our check-in table to remind our parents and teachers every Sunday. Here is the finished result
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirstenschueler/4694068758/
it cost me only about $20!Posted 1 year ago #
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