I rented Sumo Wrestling outfits and built excitement up in the middle and high schools with posters and word of mouth. The main event was the high school principal and the baseball coach. It was hilarious! The message for the night was "What do you wrestle with in life?" I set the ring up with chairs all around and...

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...

I contacted the local paintball place and asked for a deal... They gave us unlimited paint if we could guarantee 50 kids at $45 each (NO PROBLEM). That IS a great deal.The kids invited ALL their friends and we had a blast. Some games were teams, and others were youth workers & church leaders versus kids!During lunch intermission I...

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...

We asked all the youth to submit "Gizmo Games" (Not video games, just any game that included some kind of electronic device or mechanical gizmo, not including Game Boy, X-box, etc.). We got games like Henry, Bop-It, Bop-It Extreme, Dance Revolution, Foosball, Pin Ball & Air Hockey.The evening started with students signing up for as many games as they...

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...

It's a Top Ramen cook-off! Students were encouraged to bring their best Top Ramen recipes (we had several unique creations including Ramen pizza!). Students cooked the ramen during the first 30 minutes of the program, and then judged each others' entries. At the end of the night we shared a short devotional thought as students ate noodles.This event definitely...