1. Write clues for four separate ‘treasure hunts’ to be placed around your church. Try not to make them too easy or too difficult. Make sure the last clue for each of the treasure hunts will lead people to the cross/altar at the front of the church.
NB it might be useful to print the clues for the four separate treasure hunts on different coloured paper to avoid confusion when the hunt is on. The reason for having four separate treasure hunts is so that everyone is not stampeding round together and to illustrate the point that we might all follow different paths in life but God is on each of them and all paths lead to him.
2. Place the clues around the church before the service starts (making sure you keep back the first clue for each team).
3. During the service divide the congregation into teams of about six (ideally mixed age). Give each team their first clue and a ball of wool. Ask them to tie the wool to their start point and then leave a trail of the route they follow to complete the treasure hunt.
7. Ask the congregation to spend a few minutes reflecting on Dave Tomlinson’s quote before collectively reading out loud Psalm 121 or Psalm 23.
8. If this is an adult service you could use the reflection time to get people to write and pray about decisions they are trying to make at the moment.
Chloe Axford lives in Devon with her husband Nick and their very new baby girl. They are volunteer worship leaders at their church and run an alternative worship stream in the evening service called Creative Space. Chloe spent two years working in creative arts ministry at a church in London and now works as a journalist (when not dreaming up imaginative uses for tea lights, post-it notes and stones).
