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Disposable Camera Rally
Successful Programming Tips
We’re glad to provide you with effective programs, games, events, discussions, and ideas! Whether you are a volunteer, a youth leader, a youth pastor, or the Pope, you can use these practical tools to help your ministry.
If you have youth ministry ideas you want to share, please email me at jon@thesource4ym.com !!!!
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DISPOSABLE CAMERA RELAY A crazy scavenger hunt where each team has a disposable camera and a vehicle to get around town in (I recommend adult drivers) Give them a list of items, worth different points, to take pictures of. You can develop the pictures at a one-hour place and see results that evening, or develop the pictures for a PowerPoint slide presentation (many places will develop pictures on CD) the next week. Options are endless!!!
Sample List:
Mandatory Category (Must have all of these to qualify for prize!)
A PICTURE OF
A creative introduction picture to that particular team’s evening
3 team members being pushed in a shopping cart
Someone in group chugging out of a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi
Entire team hanging upside down
1000 point items
A PICTURE OF
Team member hugging a stranger
Lady scolding child
A guy coming out of the girl’s bathroom
A grocery clerk singing
Two teenager’s kissing (can’t be team members)
Someone ordering fast food
Lady walking her dog.
1500 point items
A PICTURE OF
Person peeling out in a car (team vehicles not included)
A fireman in uniform
A team member rubbing a bald mans head
Someone (other than a team member) buying “Depends”
Little kid singing
Someone giving a stranger a noogie
Team member hugging a gas station attendant
3000 point items
A PICTURE OF
A dog relieving himself on a fire hydrant
A traffic accident
Old lady on the ground yelling “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”
A police car (other than the one at the traffic accident) with its lights on
Someone crawling out of a manhole
Entire team coming out of a VW bug
PROGRAMMING Why do we do events or programs anyway? Are you programming with a purpose? Check out our training material page for FREE staff training material. Then click on “How to Run a Successful Program” to find out excellent programming tips including
“How to Screw Up Your Program So Kids Won’t Come Back!” https://thesource4ym.com/howdoi/
JONATHAN’S RESOURCES If you want more ideas, check out Jonathan’s Resources for more events like the one above, outreach agendas, games, video clips, training, and all kinds of other resources:
