A challenge for students to make the most out of their fast.Supplies:Dry erase board or big paged flip chartMarkersAsk your students what they like to do when they come home from school to help them wind down, or chill out. As they answer out loud, write down the answers to their post-school rituals on the board/page with the markers....
For this skit, you will need 5 actors/actress.Actor #1: Shut Up (main character needs to be a girl) Actor #2: Trouble (Shut Up's pet dog, best if it is a guy) Actor #3: Teacher (best if a girl) Actor #4: Office Secretary (best if a girl) Actor #5: Principal (best...
TheSource4YM.com Jonathan's Resource Ezine Weekly Resources, Ideas and Articles from The Source for Youth Ministry Wednesday, January 9, 2008 In This Issue Featured: The Source Provides Even More Free Resources at Your Fingertips...
Being pulled in a million different directions; youth needs, important issues to cover, church agenda, parent agendas, etc... oh yeah and breathing.Sooooo in planning your yearly curriculum (if it's even possible to plan a year in advance... and then stick to it), how much focus do you put on trying to aline youth agenda/topics with the pastors speaking topics...
Each year, we get a list of elderly people from our parish, divide up into groups of 6-8 and then run from house to house raking up their leaves to be picked up by the dept. of public works in our city. If you don't have a list- who cares? Pick a neighborhood in need and go to...
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...
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...