SESSION OUTLINE
Focus (9 minutes)
After greeting the youth, invite them to play a game. Put on the floor in a specific order several books, a purse, and a couple other “barriers.” Ask for a volunteer and blindfold him or her. Ask this person to go from one end of the room to a specific place (chair, table, or window). Count how many times he or she touches an object on the floor. Repeat the same process with 3-4 other youth. The person who touches the fewest objects “wins.”

After that, suggest another game. Blindfold everyone and ask them to draw on paper. Without being able to see, they are to draw their favorite things. After everyone is done, let the youth take off their blindfolds and look at their creations.

Connect (5 minutes)
Talk about the two games and the gift of sight. Ask them what they would miss the most if they were to become blind. Transition into the Bible story with this statement: Jesus healed people who were physically blind. And he also used blindness as a way to teach a lesson. Let’s look into John chapter 9 to see how Jesus used both kinds of blindness in one story.

Bible Story (20 minutes)
Set up John 9:1-41 as a dramatic reading. Ask one person to be the narrator, reading all the parts that are exposition (no one talking). Then get a reader for the blind man, a disciple, Jesus, three neighbors (one can read verse 8, one can read verse 9a and the third can read verse 9b), two Pharisees (one can read verses 16a, 19, 28-29, 34, 40 and the other one read verses 16b, 24, 26,) and one of the blind man’s parents. You could copy pages from the Bible and highlight different parts with a marker.

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