Break your group into several teams. Depending on your neighborhood, teams can walk or be driven. Give them a list of non-perishable food items to find with point values assigned to each item (see below). Students collect items off the list. Obviously the team that has the most points wins. However, it is also a service event. All food...

This is a service project for your student leaders or a small group . . . with a creative twist. Arrange a service project for your group. You could volunteer to clean someoneÕs home or even something like cleaning a supply closet in your church. I decided my office, storage room, and table storage room needed...

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...

This youth worker's youth facility is right next door to the local Pregnancy Care Center. To help apply "love your neighbor as yourself" our youth group volunteered to clean their entire building for free. With fifteen teenagers it took less than two hours to sweep, mop, clean toilets, take out trash, vacuum, and even take some pictures in the...

Three church's combined forces, mixed up all of the teens (60 in all) and divided into three separate work groups. We painted a women's shelter, we installed playground equipment, and we painted a house (simultaneously) in just about 4 hours. A day of hard work was followed by a night of games, praise & worship, fellowship, and tons of...

The idea is to have a Youth lock-in to raise awareness of the homeless in the area. The youth get people to sponsor them with donations. The only thing the youth are to bring to the event is a cardboard box (refrigerator-size) to sleep in. Upon arriving, each would be given monopoly money (not equal amounts) in exchange for...

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...