Tower of Babel

When JB and I moved to Denver we started working at Jesus of Nazareth Compassionate Ministries. "JON" is a part of a church called Grace and Life Church of the Nazarene. JB is the youth pastor there, and I teach a photography class through their after school program. The church is primarily Spanish Speakers and it is located in a lower income part of Denver not far from where we live. I'd encourage you to check it out.

Last Friday JB decided that we should talk about the connection between the the stories in the Bible dealing with The Tower of Babel (languages were mixed) and Pentecost (languages were unified via the Holy Spirit). For a fun object lesson JB decided we should build The Tower of Babel with marshmallows and spaghetti.

We broke up into 3 teams and this is what we came up with.

Team 1:


The oldest Pastor's son ended up with all the younger kids. He was a real trooper.
The ended up going with the Tepee method.


Team 2:


The middle Pastor's son and the Pastor's daughter were on another team together with one of the other girls.


They were very methodical about their tower making.


Team 3:
They were made up with one guy who just graduated from high school (and earned his associates at the same time!), one girl who is a Sophomore, and a younger girl whom I had never met.


They started off with trying to make it stronger by using multiple spaghetti sticks and "flying buttresses" to keep it sturdy.



The Results?


Team 1 tried to make it as tall as possible at the end, but end ended up being the Leaning Tower of Marshmallows.



Team 2 kept their tower strong until the end and tried to build up in height at the last possible moment.



Team 3 had a good thing going but got greedy with the height when they saw the other teams passing them. After a tragic collapse as the clock was running down one of the guys helped in the demolition.



Winners: TEAM 1!