Your students are always "acting out", so use that to your benefit. If your topic is repentance you can have a large box that is full of cleaning supplies. You can have participants come to the front, take one of the supplies and talk about how it relates to the topic of repentance. For instance a participantContinue reading "ACTING OUT"
S.M.A.R.T. GOALS
The November 1981 issue of Management Review contained a paper by George T. Doran called There's a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management's goals and objectives. It discussed the importance of objectives and the difficulty of setting them. Since then, there have been hundreds of spin-offs of this concept. I find this concept very helpful and will use Doran's main conceptsContinue reading "S.M.A.R.T. GOALS"
3) U.NDERSTANDING GOALS
Tonight we will continue our journey of the “LIFE S.U.R.V.I.V.A.L. GUIDE.” We have already explored guidelines that govern our goal setting and the last time we were together we discussed our spiritual goals and how they must be the foundation in all that we do. Our focus tonight is on the discipline of understanding. 1)Continue reading "3) U.NDERSTANDING GOALS"
1) CORE VALUES: WORK ETHIC
The Morehead, Bilbrey, Well's, and Greninger families have a tradition that every Christmas Eve, we all go eat at Red Lobster and then we come over to the Morehead house and exchange family presents and have desert. Of course this means one thing for the Morehead family- the house must be cleaned. This year, itContinue reading "1) CORE VALUES: WORK ETHIC"
TWIST ME SILLY: PIPE CLEANER ACTIVITY
A great retelling activity is pipe cleaners! Pipe cleaners are cheap, easy to use and lots of fun. At the conclusion of your lesson you can have students use pipe cleaners to create symbols of their number one take-away of the lesson. For instance if you are teaching on prayer, at the conclusion of theContinue reading "TWIST ME SILLY: PIPE CLEANER ACTIVITY"
CRAYON PRAYER REQUESTS
An exciting way to do prayer requests is to lay a large piece of paper on the floor and have groups of all ages write their prayer requests with crayons. If you have younger children, they can draw pictures of their prayer requests. Then go around the room and have each participant explain what theirContinue reading "CRAYON PRAYER REQUESTS"
BALLOON VOLLEYBALL
My friend and professional balloon twister, Andy McDonald calls balloons his five-second friend because everyone likes balloons. Balloons will bring laughter and excitement to any group. When I do balloon activities, I have participants get into two groups and give each group a bag of balloons. The first activity that we do is to seeContinue reading "BALLOON VOLLEYBALL"
2) S.PIRITUAL GOALS
Last week began the exciting journey of charting our course for success. We looked at some of the basics for goal setting and vision setting. The main seven points were: #1. YOU MUST HAVE A GOAL #2. Goals Must be written down #3. Goals Must be measured #4. Goals Must Have A Time Limit #5.Continue reading "2) S.PIRITUAL GOALS"
THUMB WAR BY MATTHEW SMITH AND JOHNATHAN NAZARIAN
(Slide created by Matthew L. Smith of www.DesignsByMattslid.com) One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war. Five, six, seven, eight, try to keep your thumb straight. Next youth group meeting try an old classic. Youth Ministry legend Johnathan Nazarian recently resurrected this old classic by hosting a "Thumb War" tournament. He had two girls teams and two guys teams. TheyContinue reading "THUMB WAR BY MATTHEW SMITH AND JOHNATHAN NAZARIAN"
CLOTHESPIN TAG
Mark off a play area of at least 40ft by 40ft by putting rope on the ground. All players are to receive 5 clothespins. They are then to pin them to their clothes. Have them all spread out around the edge of the rope before starting. The object is to pin your clothespins onto the otherContinue reading "CLOTHESPIN TAG"
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