Think: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts. Even if they start out awkward, the idea of a group pretzel or a human period is to break the ice all the way and to build camaraderie and lasting memories.
The most effective plans that youth leaders can create are the ones that encourage all the kids and students involved to participate! To Encourage Working TogetherĬompetition, classic games, and beat-the-clock time limits all have their place, but team-building and group activities exist for a reason. Remember, it's easy to get caught into a mindless routine of last-minute activities that just pass the time (think 3rd grade substitute teacher wheeling in the VHS and playing a movie everyone had already seen 30 times). If that’s you, here are 14 ideas that you can scrape together in minutes that kids will actually like. Youth pastors very often show up to youth groups exhausted, coming up with some half-baked youth group activity that they googled 5 minutes before the meeting.
Have you felt so overburdened by random church work that you actually don’t have time to do your one job: minister to the youth? The church usually dumps a bunch of random tasks on youth pastors, because they’re young and full of energy.Īt the same time, they expect you to write powerful sermons every single week while organizing engaging games and events to rival the entertainment industry’s multi-billion dollar budgets.
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