We booked a large local hall and sent out flyers to all the local high schools. We booked some DJ's and some break-dancers. We had our youth group learn some funky new dances and had a team visiting from America. We made a coffee area where they could buy coffee, soda, etc. We had dance music playing and break...
We hold a 5th Quarter Party after the home high school football games each season. Our church is 2 blocks from the stadium. We provide music (mix of Christian & secular), either a D.J. or band, plus pizza & pop. Kids dance or hang out in the Youth Room and play pool, ping pong and foosball. We take digital...
This is our summer programming for this year. At first I thought it would be only for our core group, but I was proven wrong! Our event is called Reality Check, and each week we begin in a large group setting where 4 specific, real-life issues are discussed broadly. The youth can then choose which topic to attend based...
As a youth ministry, we went into the projects near the church with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, four-square balls and whiffle ball to hang out with the teens that live there, to begin a relationship. We met people that actually wanted to come to our weekly meetings, but did not have the transportation, or the money to use...
We set up four half-court basketball courts and run a 3-on-3 tournament. We played good music and had prize drawings all day, too. At the end of the tournament we gave the Gospel message before we gave out the trophies. It was a great day and we are doing it again this year in September.Herb Gilliland, Youth Pastor, Glad...
Milli Vanilli look out! Yes- it's the age-old lip sync contest! We promoted the event like a talent show, inviting students to come prepared to lip sync and act out a song. Careful screening was necessary (and announced on the flyer) to keep music appropriate. After each group had performed their lip sync, our panel of judges selected the...
After seeing my kids bring a skateboard to every event I had, I decided not to fight it but to work with it. My heart is outreach and I looked at the trends of teens. We were missing the skater kids. So, I decided that the community needed to come together as one body in Christ to offer a...