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This is an oldie but a goodie. If you have never tried playing a game called shuffle your buns for your youth ministry, then you need to because its a great warm up ice-breaking – possibly chair-breaking experience!
How to play:
Have your students circle up with their chairs. Have one student step [...]
In my time as a youth ministry leader, I’ve lead many Bible discussion groups for high school aged kids in the Bay Area. Most of them have been fun and engaging, but many have been dull, lifeless, and uninspiring. I’ve learned a lot from those not so great sessions, and what I’ve [...]
Kahootz (made up word basically for a game that makes it appear that you have telepathy) – is a fun game to play in your small group. It takes only two people to mesmerize the rest of your group.
How To Play:
You will be the one to tell your group that you [...]
This youth ministry idea is to get your students sharing stuff about themselves.
Here’s how it works:
When your students come into your group setting – be it small or a large group (however small groups work best and if you have a large group break them into small groups first) ask them [...]
I actually thought this was a great youth ministry idea after seeing all the different too light too heavy bud-light commercials. This is an activity that can be developed around a passage or passages of scripture or themes.
I’m not sure how theologically this will line up, but there are certainly many scripture passages [...]
Here is a youth ministry idea that you may want to try (it may just happen anyways) on your way to a summer camp with your students.
Try arranging a fake church van or bus breakdown about 1 mile from the camp or retreat you are headed to and have your students walk the rest [...]
Pows and Wows were introduced to me at a church camp when I was younger. I ended up taking this idea and using it in my junior high Sunday school class. It would be just as effective during youth group depending on how you do your youth group meetings.
40 Icebreakers for Small Groups is a FREE ebook compiled from several articles posted on Insight. I thought it might be helpful to put them together in an eBook (708kb) for youth leaders to download. In addition, [...]
I recently asked the Jr. High students that I lead to come up with questions that they currently have about God, the Bible, Christianity and wow, I couldn’t have been happier by the quality and thought provoking questions that [...]
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