For this event/game students are broken up into tribes. Each tribe makes up a name and picks out a certain colored bandana. Then each team competes in different games for points. We played play dough charades, Bible math, Unscramble Bible Verses, then Water Sponge Relay, Grab Bag relay with baby bottle slurp, Bubble Blowing contest, Slurping baby food through...
After a sermon series or small group discussions about sexual purity, organize a ÒCommitment to PurityÓ ceremony, giving your students an opportunity to publicly commit themselves to sexual and relational purity until marriage. Allow the students to come up with a ring for the ceremony. Some parents bought their kids rings, some kids bought them for themselves. ...
Each family is asked to bring a dish to share (Pot Luck). The students from the youth group introduce each family member and tell something special about each one (depending on the group size, this can be done in front of the whole group, or just around each table). The student then serves his/her family members. After dinner,...
Need a cool reason to get together and share a meal? Here it is!Have everyone Ð including teachers/sponsors - come dressed as a Bible character, but not tell anyone who they represent. Decorate your room to resemble a banquet in Jesus' Day, with candles for lighting. Have volunteers fix a meal consisting of only foods from back in...
This is such a simple event with such huge rewards. If you want to get to know your students' parents better, check this event out.Each Easter we advertise a meal for the parents, with their own kids waiting on them. We cook something simple that the girls help prepare beforehand. The boys, in shirt, trousers, and tie, wait...
That's right, Jell-O wrestling. This event is always a winner and is even noted as one of the "slam dunk" top 10 outreach events that work in Jonathan's book "Getting Students to Show Up." Here's how you do it:1. Find a store near you that sells bulk foods and purchase large quantities of instant Jell-O, enough to make...
This works great as an outreach event.Hold a formal night (tuxes, gowns, etc.). Book a youth band and provide desserts. Go to your local trophy store and buy 12 cheap "Oscar" trophies to do a whole Oscar night. The key is plugging this months ahead of time so students can make videos to submit for the evening. You'll want...