A Dilemma

Okay, I'm looking for suggestions here. Anyone and everyone feel free to chime in. As you all know, I agreed to teach 7th grade PSR classes at my church. I'm responsible for covering morality (Beatitudes, Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, Social Justice, etc.) and Jesus in the New Testament. We've had two classes and let me put it this way without seeming sacreligous- I'm not sure these kids would be impressed if Jesus was teaching the class. They just SIT THERE! It's like they're waiting to be entertained. I've been scouring the Faith First website for ways to make the lessons more interesting, but no matter what I try from cooperative learning, artistic projects, role play, you name it, all I get is either A: "This is so boring, I'm only here because my mom/dad is making me come so I can get confirmed next year, I can't...(fill in the blank with draw, act, pretend, etc.)B: blank stares, or C: no response at all. Now granted, there are two students who are consistently responding and appear to be interested in what's going on and what we're covering, but two students does not a successful class make. I'm digging into my bag of teaching tricks now and trying to figure out ways to adapt it to the subject matter and nothing seems to be working. To say I'm frustrated is an understatement. I'm a big believer that you get out of faith what you're willing to put into it. I also believe that these kids need a good base because the things I hear them talking about in the halls before class shock me. I think they think I'm deaf and can't hear what they're saying in the hall. What they don't realize is that I've been a school teacher for 10 years and eavesdropping on students is a particular speciality of mine. How else am I going to know what's going on? So any thoughts and ideas on what I could do to get them involved would be greatly appreciated. I'd like them to meet me half way at least. Would food work? Maybe feeding them would help. As you can tell, I'm starting to get desperate. We're not supposed to have food, but I've got to do something. In any case, if you have no suggestions, at least say a prayer for us. I borrowed a phrase from Star Trek when I stopped to pray last night after class at church, "I'm giving it all she's got Captain." and like the Enterprise, I'm not sure how much more I, or the students, can take.