Families from our church host a backyard event called the Backyard Bible Quest. They invite kids from their neighborhood, and provide their yard and a snack. We do creative crafts and play fun games. Then we make sure great storytellers present the greatest story ever told.Through this event we've reached hundreds of kids in backyards ... kids that would...

The idea is to set up many challenges for teens to participate in (a climbing or scaling wall, dunk tank, obstacle course, radar gun baseball throw, sumo wrestling, four-way volleyball, etc.) and then have a gospel presentation geared towards teens and give them "The Ultimate Challenge." My husband and I started this three years ago as an outreach program...

For several years in a row I helped organize a citywide block party. We used the parking lot of a local bank and set up a stage, food booths, a volleyball net, and lots of basketball hoops. We organized a basketball tournament, had live bands, and tons of door prizes (all donated by local businesses).At some point in the...

Go to your local skate park at around 6 or 7 pm. Take a grill and some coolers of water, lemonade, and soda. Grill up the hotdogs and yell "FREE HOTDOGS!" Kids will surround your grills and start eating and talking. Kids begin to ask why you're there. Just tell them "cuz we care about you." Sometimes the door...

It's as simple as it sounds ... and it worked! Sports draw kids out that might not normally go to church.This was done at the beach, but could be done at a park or anywhere. We challenged another youth group to a football game on Clearwater Beach. Both group of kids invited their friends (especially ones that could play...

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....

All you need for this one is a theme park that has go carts/race cars and your Bible. Send out invitations and make a big deal about this one. Get as many of your kids, plus as many of their friends as you can. Bus them over to the theme park for a night of high octane fun, racing...