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Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/8/2008 1:46:21 PM
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hjemerson
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Ok here the facts :
Small youth group(for now)
SBC
3-5 attend / ages 13-17-
Need ideals for acivities
Community ideal to let other know we are here
(old church no youth over 10 yrs now)
Also types of activites we can do for fun
Have small budget
Thing you have done and the kids enjpyed
We will alway have a short devotion at any activivty
We like to think out of the box, so any ideals will be accepted
and talked about!!!!
Thanks for all the help!!!
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/8/2008 3:44:50 PM
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gal220
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I've added a link that may be helpful. At the bottom of the page you will find other links as well. With imagination and creativity you can modify the games or activities to fit your group.
http://christianteens.about.com/od/activities/a/stupidgames.htm
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/10/2008 10:41:49 PM
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hjemerson
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Thanks I will be using this site for sure!!!
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/11/2008 12:08:45 AM
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Hey, There!
This is a great query!
I have spent a lot of quality time with SBC.
Some more info would help define the need:
What is the community like? Small? Rural? City? Southern State? In the North? Ethnic diversity? Near a college?
Thinking 'outside the box' --- Your 'box' has a lot of good resources already (depending on the area you are in) Talk to your Area Missionary, or find out how to contact the BSU (Baptist Student Union) at the nearest college.
Your SBC publishing house has great materials for high school, but you might also check out Group Publishing
www.grouppublishing.com
And, hey, there is really nothing wrong with a little unity--if there are other small youth groups in your town, think about working together on a bigger project once in a while.
I'd love to support you in your endeavor,
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/11/2008 9:53:20 AM
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InfoCentral
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Your church can start a Civil Air Patrol unit? That might also work to draw more youth into your church.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/11/2008 10:00:47 AM
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a progressive dinner party using Clue as the theme.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/11/2008 11:48:39 PM
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We have a game night every month for the youth at our church and play a ton of things. Suggestion, do themes for certain days. Like, superhero day where they dress up. Preferably something made up that shows their personality.
Also, dodge ball is always useful.
One time, we did a messy fight. In which you bring food, preferably soft, and just attack people with it, the goal being getting them messy as possible. For my weapon, I used BBQ beef pizza. 
The field was also lined with squeeze bottles of mayo, chocolate, ketchup, mustard, stuff like that. FIND OUT ALLERGIES BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS.
Lets see. With a smaller crowd, you could do word bucket, which is fun and expands your vocab! You get like, two teams together, have each person on the team write two words. Then, they put all of them in the bucket and start the rounds.
first round: the first team gets the bucket and starts to describe one word at a time using words that AREN'T THAT WORD or PARTS OF THAT WORD. The team has to guess it and you do this until time has run out. (Your discretion on how long the rounds last, it's more fun if it's shorter), do this for team two and switch back and forth until all the words are guessed.
second round: same as the first, except it's charades so silent! do until all words are guessed. a shorter time for this one
final round: same as first, except you can only use one word to describe the word, obviously can't be the word. ANY sound like, err or uhhhh counts, this is hilarious and frustrating at the same time. you can't move on if you say uhhh or errr or something of the sort and can't move on until either time runs out or they somehow guess the word. shorter time for this one as well.
I'm sure I could find more things if I asked around, I'm 19 and I still find these things incredibly fun so your group should enjoy it and it's fun stuff.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/12/2008 9:32:12 AM
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gal220
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Great suggestions, PureLight!
Water balloon fights are fun for all ages.
I like the vocab game...I'm going to try to use that in the near future. Thanks for the suggestion!
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/12/2008 10:58:36 AM
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Sometims small groups from my church get together and volunteer at a local charity. The only cost is time and gas. Give us a chance to help the needy, both spiritualy and humanly.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/12/2008 11:13:11 AM
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Thanks for all the ideal . We are In a med size city in between two large cities Greensboro and Raileigh NC I am looking thur many of the on intertnet for games and ideals we need to pray and wait to see what the groups want we are ethnic mixed Which I love haveing a mixe of youth to share ideal with, so far we are trying to plan aactivity last of Aug frist of sept so keep up the ideal i let you know how things go!!
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/12/2008 4:11:44 PM
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Our church also sponsors a Boy Scout troop.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/13/2008 12:03:08 PM
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If you only have 3-5 attend then growth should be paramount. Youth seek other youth and are perfectly happy just sitting around talking if there are enough of them to socialize with. Activities come into play after this milestone is achieved. If not then it is a weak attempt at overcoming boredom.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/13/2008 10:55:52 PM
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Question: do you want warm bodies to fill seats or do you want youth who are desiring to impact their community for Christ? The three youth that you currently have, are they solid in their faith? What is their desire? Are they wanting a social club or are they serious?
You've already gotten a bunch of great ideas for fun activities -- even if you're wanting a serious group, fun activities are still...fun.
If you're looking to build a solid youth group which is an integral part of your church, then first and foremost you need to build a foundation of prayer. Do you have some "senior saints" who are comitted to praying for the youth?
My suggestions: get the youth you have involved in what is going on already at the church. Get them serving where they can. Schedule a spaghetti feed for grandparents' day and have the youth invite a few friends to help serve the grandparents of the church. Let the teens take charge of cleaning the church kitchen one week a month or let them help with cleaning the gutters or washing the upstairs windows. Start a mentorship program where each teen or two teens get together with an older believer once or twice a week to just spend time developing a friendship. This is how lives are impacted long-term.
We found that if we tried to create a "youth group" as a separate entity from the church, it began to work in conflict with the church. Tension arose and it became an us v. them thing.
I think the most important thing is to keep the program covered in prayer and keep seeking God's will for the group. It sounds like your church is excited about potential growth. I'll pray that God blesses the work there!!!
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/14/2008 8:27:08 PM
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If you don't find some warm bodies to fill some seats I don't think your going to need to worry about anything else because there won't be anyone left soon. I don't know just how many times I've seen that happen.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/15/2008 2:12:47 AM
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It might be a little late in the summer for this idea, but there is a ministry in Birmingham, Alabama that is simply amazing. (I am actually watching it on the TV right now). It is called the Basement and it all began with one guy who started a Bible study in the basement of his house. It is a place filled with fired up people all about spreading God's love. I'm actually starting to be part of the leadership team there! It's really an incredible experience that would be fun and something to get your youth fired up about getting other youth in to the church! http://www.thebasementonline.com There is the website. The "Basement Story" video is a must-watch.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/15/2008 5:23:13 PM
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Thanks eveyone we had our frist real youth group meeting this past week!! 12 were in two are under the age(10) and the pastor is going to start a group for girls 6-11 We both argee this would be best, the other for now are 15-18yr , We dicsussed thing we like to get in to .Pray and Bible study this group has been just playing a few games and snacking on youth group night. We are looking in to bulid a group of Bible belivers and teens for Christ . We are working and praying for things to transtion over I know we may lose a few because one is the step siser of the ten yr old and they did not like or care for the ideal it really was the pastor ideal and we feel it was good. We hope to encourage and show we are leaders that want each of the youth to grow and serve the Lord thur all they do. We do have a church of mostly older over 60 and they say they want to see new life and belive the youth is were we have a start! At this time we are taking baby steps , we want each to have the chance to know the Lord personal if they do not, and then grow . We do know a few have been in chrurch and know some of the lesson we are teaching by the inreaction we had. We Hope to have warm bodies and both turned on for God!!! We are looking in to "MY Space,"along with a group name amd tee shirt. we are planning a local activity as in cici pizza one sat afternoon and the see how that works out. We are very much in to severing the Lord in action we will be doing fall cleaning at the church and for sr./etc in out community !! very soon. May somthihg for a re sevice men and women in the coming months with t-given /christmas coming. W e want to teach and show them it not just about them self but seving other thur love in Christ.We have a group of mix youth whit.black/hispic/ they all go tho drifferent schools so we ar not just confined to one school area. They did ask to start the meeting off with praise and worship music!! May it will spill over to the adults!! We are in praying for a power point soon!!! Just one of these thing older adults do not seam to understand how it could imorve the church service!!! ( Before you think it we are in out 50"s so not just in to all the new things But whant to use the Best we can for the sevice of the LORD!! Keep the ideal coming!!THanks
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/18/2008 9:58:29 AM
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I was in a small youth group in church and I have been the first youth pastor at two churches, trying to start up a youth ministry, and was called as the youth pastor to a church trying to rebuild after a conflict. I understand small budgets and how difficult change can be, so I want to encourage you.
Here are some things to consider:
1. It takes a long time to build a base because kids are about relationships as well as activities. Work on the relationships.
2. For your activities, make up your own games with things that you can find at Wal-mart and build up your resources. Look online for games using the things you can use more than once, such as "duct tape games" or "water games". Buy a big Rubbermaid tub with a lid ($9-$17 at Wal-mart) and get a couple things for a game night. The next game night (or ice breaker for studies, etc.) get a couple more things. Things you should always have: small athletic cones, duct tape, bandanas, soft foam or sponge balls, shaving cream, kiddie pools, various size balloons, rubber bands, q-tips, 5-gallon buckets, hula hoop(s), XXL fleece sweatsuits or long underwear, masking or painters tape, a stopwatch and whistle, and frisbees. I just recently bought some swim fins for a new game I created. In the long run, you'll save money by buying these things because you can create your own games or do games that others have created using these items. Many of them are student ministry staples. You may even want to ask church members to pick up something from the list the next time they are at wal-mart. and drop it in the big tub in the fellowship hall. Just a thought.
3. Add a devotion to your game times just to give a taste to the kids. Read them cool stories from the Bible and get Bible trivia stuff and "cool and disgusting stories" books from a Christian bookstore. These have lessons tied in with them sometimes. Start building your library of youth ministry materials from the clearance sections of Christian bookstores and get free lessons and games for youth ministry online.
4. As someone else mentioned, do local mission projects. Start with people in the church so they can be served by young people, so youth can get to know the adults in the church, and so the student ministry will have supporters when complaints come; and they WILL come.
5. Be safe. Set the example in all you do, and establish and uphold rules for behavior. Don't encourage harmful pranks or any destructive behavior and let them know that we are to honor each other, not tear each other down. Have fun with the kids and let them poke fun, but speak to them regularly about honor.
6. Don't badmouth anyone else, especially church leadership. The youth need to learn from you that honor should be freely given and what submission to authority looks like. If you disrespect the pastor, they will, too.
Welcome to youth ministry. It's very exciting, and I'm sure you'll do great! Learn lessons and be fluid (flexibility is too stiff) with your ministry and watch for little things that God does.
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RE: Need Ideal for Youth group - 8/20/2008 8:05:42 PM
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hjemerson
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Thank Youthrev
I will keep your ideal at heart I love to have clean christian fun and we try very hard to live by example. Seving other and not back bitting , We only talk to the Lord on theses issues. We have many eyes watch us to see how we handle things We are not a young in age we have been around youth over 20 years and nothing I mean nothing can shock us. I took a group of 13 yr old girl to young camp a few years back and one of the girls ss teacher was my friend told me as we were getting on the bus to leave that afternoon *** has told her just this mornig she was PG and did not know what to do or know one knew!!! I was a staffer to this young lady and she did openup to me . she had a asthna attach and I had to infrom our youth pastor and the emt then I had to call the mother and this was all open up. Praise the Lord she was not but we be came close and it open up a lot of doors for use to serve at that time. m Now to today last night HD when out to visit a few of the youth that live in the area of the church as i was in ladys Bible study. He when to one young girls home, knock on the (yes we usally vist together but he knew he would not go in to ahomes and would vist on the porch hoping to find parents home) And the mother PARENTER( same sex) answered . Now that is not a problem for us we have worked and had many same sex couples as freinds and co-worker thur the years we showed them christian love and understanding! After returning to pick me up he and the pastor talked and HD was telling who he had visited and made contacts with and "the pastor stated so you met her!" How and Why can some not give us the inside stories on out few youth , This young gril , parents and grand parent and several other family menber have been and still in our small church!! We do not judge but it would help to to be able to minster to the kids!! We are new to the state and only 1 year here in this church , so many times they for get we did not grow up and know all the history . So I guess this too will be an area to adjust to!! Thanks for all tghe ideals please keep them coming!!
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