Vision Activity: The Amanda Game

The way the Acts 2 Journey helps leadership teams identify their passion is through an activity called the Amanda game, which is described in the above video. Many S and C leaders can identify with this story. 

The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate that for many in the room, the only way they're going to get God’s vision for their church is by looking in the eyes of people. They won’t find it in their office, and maybe not even in their prayer closet.

Facilitators should lead two activities during Retreat 1 to help teams develop vision:

1. Invite teams to take turns playing this game with those at their table. The assignment between Retreats 1 and 2 is to have teams continue playing the game individually between retreats to see what themes keep coming up.
2. Invite teams to participate in an exercise called "The Power of Your Story." This exercise is designed to help them share their stories one to another in no more than three minutes. Because churches often rate evangelism as the weakest of the five functions in the life of their church, this exercise helps re-frame and strengthen the practice of evangelism as teams share their stories and identify their collective passion.