I had Jamie Starrett approach me to let you know about some resources of his called Youth Ministry ToolBox.
What Youth Ministry Toolbox provides is PowerPoint lessons and PowerPoint games for youth ministry for a $40 a year subscription which after checking out the lessons and games inside – I think they would [...]
This youth ministry game we named Eye of the Tiger and you can use a garbage can, chair, or whatever to be the center and here is how it is played:
Circle up and join hands and when you say go you try to pull anyone into the object in the center.
If someone [...]
This can be a fun youth ministry game or event. Coordinate efforts from all the other youth ministries in your town and hold a massive youth ministry Easter egg hunt. For some reason high school and Jr highers still love to chase after Easter eggs and I’ve done it with both large and small groups and it always is a fun thing to watch.
For the event:
One of my jr highers just had to show me a dunk and so I thought this would be the time for this youth ministry idea! So in light of the NCAA basketball that’s going on – have a creative dunk contest for your game time for youth ministry. You may actually be surprised [...]
Team building games and activities are great ways to help groups develop cooperation, decision making, leadership and communication skills. Check out the team building games over on Grahame’s blog Insight. They include lots of fun challenges as well as a couple of classic ‘pen and paper’ survival games. Here’s a challenge [...]
This is an easy and fun game to kick off your fall youth ministry. All you need is a roll of toilet paper for every two students.
How it works: Have everyone partner up and then give each team a roll of toilet paper. Once everyone has gotten one. Give them 5 minutes to come [...]
This is a fun game that can be done throughout the school year or the summer time, or maybe it will never end.
Overview: The continuing game works by picking a challenging activity to do. The activity must be very hard to do (like a half court shot) and if a student can complete the [...]
Hi !! Youth leader shouting out from PA. So great of you to share ideas with everyone. My favorite idea that my youth beg for each year is our Amazing race. It takes a bit of prep work but it is so much fun. The idea of the race is to find information from [...]
Mafia has been a game that has been floating around since some time after the 1920′s and now your youth group can play this game with some unique cards that Paul Moorhead told me about this weekend. Paul was previously involved with youth life for 8 and a half years (congrats) and [...]

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