Tonight our youth group began a new series for our Wednesday nights. Our series is called "Mythbusters". Baisically we are busting myths about God and Christianity. While I know this can't be the only religiously slanted Mythbusters knockoff, it seems like it is going to be a lot of fun. I love the show on Discovery channel because I am a bit of a nerd at heart (okay, a lot of a nerd at heart). I love to see people who know what they are doing use their brains to solve problems, then blow stuff up. A recent episode featured the now famous "Mentos and Diet Coke" experiment. If you don't know already, what you do is take a 2 liter bottle of diet coke and stick a bunch of mentos down into it. What will you get? A tall fountain of aspertame filled goodness coming out of the bottle!
But there is a funny thing about Vernon, Texas. Sometimes you can't find things that you would normally find anywhere else.......like MENTOS! I looked everywhere I could in Vernon (thats like four places total) and I couldn't find mentos. So I had to improvise. I had to use this experiement in my lesson tonight! So I bought various candies that I thought would work. You know what worked the best? Crushed up mint lifesavers! They seem to work just as well as the Mentos.
So I bought 25 bottles of 2 liter diet coke. I crushed my lifesavers. Time for the show. I had our kids walk over to my house (I live across the parking lot from the church) and get set up. I had our volunteers wear plastic panchos and eye-goggles. They really didn't have to do that but I thought I thought it looked funny. We had different contests to see how high we could squirt the foam. I think we got to about 15 feet! It was really fun.
We tied the lesson to the myth that we are alone in this world and that by realizing the value of being together with God and his people would make some amazing things happen (hence the fountain of diet coke). You (mentos) and God (diet coke) make something really cool.
It's a weak analogy, but hey, I am a youth minister and I have the best job in the world.
Chris
By the way.........check out this video..........it takes the mentos and diet coke thing to a new level!
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Gloria said she really enjoyed the little experiement and the class. Sound like it was fun!
Pretty sure I watched that more than once. That was cool!
Stinkin' hilarious...the nerd in me would totally do that in my free time! I bet the kids loved it!
These guys could give the water show in vegas some competition.
Chris, That sounds really cool. A teacher at our school tried that last year and it totally flopped, but he's a dufus. I'm sure your kids loved it. Cool video, too.
NERD??? A blogger that watches Discovery Channel....hmmm.... I guess most of my friends are nerds then!
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