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Outreach Event Ideas, Sharing Events

How Do I Plan For a Weekend Retreat?

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Here's a ready-made WINTER RETREAT ... to go!WINTER RETREATThis snow retreat has a three fold purpose: Have a great time so students want to be involved in the group more.  Staff build relationships with students, earning their trust and exemplifying Christ-like faith by their actions.  Present what a relationship with Christ is all about.As many of you...
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The Hook Up

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This is an outreach event that is a ton of fun. Here's what you do.Advertise this event as "The Hook Up". Do this by printing up flyers with the date, location, and other important information with a picture of a fish hook. (You might also want to print Matthew 4:19 on it somewhere.) Now give every student in your...
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Human Sundae Fight

Note: This one is very messy and you will need to take precautions that prevent this awesome outreach idea from costing you relational damage within your church.The idea is to invite lots of un-churched friends to come out, bring a sundae topping like chocolate or caramel, and have a blast in our Human Sundae Fight. HereÕs how you can...
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Skater Revolution

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...
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Word of Mouth

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...
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Ball Up

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...
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Discussions FOUR Real Life

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...
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