Our Event is a series of events formed around the "5th Sunday" of the month (there are 4 months every year that have 5 Sundays in them). We plan an event Ð KidsÕ Movie Night, BBQ, Teen Nerf War, Community Picnic, etc - and we invite the kids in the neighborhood around our church. It is also a great...
This is a really neat event that brings the little youth (and their parents) together with teens for prayer, fun and food. You just pick a simple art project, something that the older teens can help the younger kids with, (we painted wooden crosses as Easter presents for parents). Get your teens involved early with this and encourage them...
We have a skate park here in town, so the idea is to take a portable screen and projector down to the park and show the new "Livin' It" movie from Palau ministries and Stephen Baldwin as an outreach to our local skating community. We take refreshments and flyers about our student ministry and just hang out with kids....
The Church and youth department would take up a love offering once a month, then find a family who is in need of assistance and pay all their bills for that month. You name it: rent, electric, food, phoneÉthe works! In addition, the kids and family would get new clothes and shoes-not 2nd hand, but brand new items that...
I came up with this outreach idea while volunteering with Dora High School's Softball Team. The girls love to eat sunflower seeds. So I went to Sam's and got a large bucket with 60 packs of sunflower seeds in each and made a shipping label that had the name of my church, the meeting times, and a little saying...
Operation Welcome Mat - Your soon-to-be new youth won't know what hit 'em but they sure will wear it. Here is what you need: a car full of energetic youth, directions to the houses of teenagers who have recently visited your church, lots of your left-over youth ministry T-shirts, some glow in the dark bracelets, some youth group newsletters,...
Buy 150 burritos and 75 cups for soda at the Taco Bell near your high school. Pick up some 2-liter sodas, and during the studentsÕ lunch break, hand out FREE burritos and drinks. Give out flyers about your weekly program and some of your upcoming activities.Cory Gant, Youth Minister, Santa Clara Church of Christ, Eugene, OR