Full of easy-to-use ideas and activities for youth meetings, worship services, retreats, road trips, and other outings. Includes: -blessings and benedictions -songs, share circles, service projects, and time capsules. -prayers, secret pals, games, gift exchanges, and devotionals -newsletters and much more!

55 Group-Building Activities for Youth: (Essentials for Christian Youth! Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Halverson, Sam

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

SOME TEENS CAN'T BE LED …They Have to Be Driven 
Impact your youth with an activity that is interesting, instructive, and memorable. This book offers 50 more “mystery destinations” near your church that can serve as backdrop illustrations for Biblical lessons. Destination Unknown 2 is a follow-up to Destination Unknown: 50 Great Mystery Trips for Youth Groups. Students meet at the church to load up and go to an "unknown destination" where they will experience worship, have a lesson, or play a game to put them right into a Bible story. Think of these as grown-up object lessons that bring the Bible to life for students. A drive of just a few minutes can engage &amp; affect your youth group in settings such as – <ul><li>A newsroom - to discuss spreading the good news of the gospel</li></ul> <ul><li>A river bank – to study the water of life</li></ul> <ul><li>A Bloodmobile - to frame a lesson on the sacrifice of Jesus' blood</li></ul>
<ul><li>A jewelry store - to recount the parable of the pearl of great price</li></ul> <ul><li>A water treatment plant – for a lesson on purification</li></ul> <ul><li>A clock tower – for readings from Ecclesiastes on a time for every purpose</li></ul> These and many more innovative road trip parables are supplemented by lesson plans, devotional outlines, discussion questions, and related scripture clues for your youth group to guess their mystery destination. Show your teens a creatively original approach to teaching.

Destination Unknown 2: 50 More Quick Mystery Trips for Youth Groups

HAVE IT YOUR WAY Special Order Another Coordinated Youth Program With the Works Week in and week out, leaders are looking for something to spark the imagination and the energy of their youth group. Would you like all of your youth group activities &amp; classes to coordinate together under a single unifying theme? Would you like a set of 6 complete month-long youth programs you can customize to your preferences? Would you like more of the relevant, creative, and complete plans you enjoyed in the first volume of Combos for Youth Groups ? Combos for Youth Groups # 2 offers a second helping of programs that are stuffed with coordinated “a la carte menus”, including – <ul>
<li>Off-Site Activities</li> <li>Class Lessons</li> <li>Service Projects</li> <li>Skit Scripts</li> <li>Music</li> <li>Games</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>Scripture Tie-Ins</li> <li>Illustrative Snacks</li> <li>Discussion Questions</li> <li>Handouts</li> <li>PowerPoint Presentations</li> <li>Devo Aids</li> <li>Theme Wall Decor</li> <li>Hands-On Activities</li>
</ul> Combos for Youth Groups # 2 includes complete plans, plus a CD-ROM for customizing six multi-faceted 1-month youth group themes. Choose your favorite themes and campaign elements within the Combos “menus”, offering them in any order, at any time during the calendar year. Leaders can use these ingredients to create a soul-satisfying "combo" just right for their youth group! Six 1-Month Themes in Combos # 2 <ul>
<li>Who Do You Say </li>
<li>Picture This! </li>
<li>God Loves Good Sex </li>
<li>Road Trip </li>
<li>Beyond Belief </li>
<li>Rescue 911</li>
</ul>
Each theme can be used for a month of weekly youth group programs―so complete, just add a leader! Includes CD-ROM Allows youth workers flexibility when modifying the themes to meet their group’s specific needs. CD-ROM REQUIREMENTS PC/Windows® Pentium® II 300 MHz or faster processor Microsoft® Windows 98 or later 64 MB RAM 4X CD-ROM drive Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher recommended QuickTime® 5.0 or higher External speakers recommended Macintosh® Power PC 300 MHz or faster processor Mac OS 9.0 or later 64 MB RAM 4X CD-ROM drive Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher recommended for OS9 Safari or Internet Explorer recommended for OS X QuickTime® 5.0 or higher

Combos for Youth Groups #2: Six More 1-Month Themes with the Works

Stewart, David

Broyles, Anne

McCreight, Barbara J.

“I can’t think of a single church that won’t benefit from this book.” –Mark DeVriesMost youth groups function like a parasite within the body of the church: a separate organism that relies on its host for resources, but isn’t integrated into the whole. Strong language? Sure. But it’s accurate. And if left untreated, this parasitic relationship will lead to unhealthy results for both youth ministries and churches.One Body addresses how even the most active youth ministries can unknowingly hinder the development of their adolescents by preventing them from being integrated into the body of Christ. It also reveals practices that hinder growth within the body and suggests some exciting ways to connect the stories and lives of the youth and adults in your church.Let’s get teenagers out of their ministry silos—their youth group ghettos—and start building relationships beyond the youth room. Let’s dream together of moving our congregations toward a better understanding of their biblical call to disciple and be One Body with youth.

One Body: Integrating Teenagers into the Life of Your Church

Youth Cartel, The

Take your youth on the road and watch them become Christ's hands and feet in your community. Destination Unknown Missions provides 30 outings to places in your city or county where your group will be able to make a difference. In keeping with the Destination Unknown spirit, these excursions can be mystery trips, where the youth won't know where they're going until they get there. Or, for some of the destinations, you may decide that it's better to give the youth some information before you hit the road. Regardless of how you do it, these trips will introduce your group to needs close to home and will show the youth ways that they can use their gifts and join with local agencies to meet these needs. Every destination includes a Scripture focus so that youth will understand how they are doing the work of God's kingdom by reaching out in their communities. This book includes: • 30 plans for 30 extraordinary, close-to-home mission-and-service programs • A plan for a week-long youth mission camp • Clear biblical connections with every activity • Reproducible permission, registration, and volunteer disclosure forms

Destination Unknown Missions: 30 Excursions To Transform Your Community