Resource Category: Activities / Events

This is a rules / guidelines sheet that we handed out to the highest bidder during the youth auction. This sheet also provides the bidder with emergency contact information in case any issues were to arise while youth was working.

All youth come for event and we do team building activities related to theme of the month. The older youth do assist and have s mentor/relationship for younger youth. This is also has teen leadership involved as they assist on leading activity. Has beeRead More…

Use this tool to jumpstart your next committee meeting. It can serve as an icebreaker for a meeting, and it will also help generate new ideas during brainstorming sessions.

Use this guide to help you plan all the details of your next event.

This is a prayer guide that will give direction when praying for students, student ministries, and student pastors/leaders. Use this guide as a tool to encourage your students to pray individually and corporately. Pass it along to prayer groups withinRead More…

It was a youth service we did that went about 1 1/2 we started with some special effects and sounds with demons walking around congregation screaming and yelling as if they were stuck in hell! This part was in the dark and then we went into in times viRead More…

Two games of Bible trivia set up in “Jeopardy” style – ready to play with categories, questions, and answers. Good to use in a youth class.

If you go ahead and have someone build you big wood frames that are different sizes, I promise you that you will use them. We made the frames so that a king or queen size sheet could fit over them and staple the back of it. We buy these sheets then plaRead More…

We were doing a Heaven/Hell series in Sunday School. We got the smallest room in the church and hung up the $4.38 black tarp from Wal-Mart all along the walls and the ceiling. Before hand we handed some people plain white posters and asked them to painRead More…

In our auditorium, we have a choir loft and baptistry that is high up. We try to cover the baptistry area for the youth service so that area looks good with the other decorations that we are doing. We got a line to stretch across the baptistry. Then weRead More…

We made the auditorium look like an old school house. We borrowed old desk from some of the saints. We gathered all of the books in the church and stacked them in front of the organ so the whole organ was covered, we had lamps out (got two old lamps anRead More…

This is our theme for 2012. We did a big thing New Years Night. This was our Decorations for the youth service. We made One big chalk board out of wood and painted it with chalkboard paint. Now we use this for every youth service. You wash it and put sRead More…

This was supposed to go with the lesson that I uploaded but it didn’t get included. This is a activity that I had the youth do along with the short lesson.

We held a two night event. THe first night featured the music of THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH in Memphis and Bro Huckaby ministered. The second night featured music from Heritage APostolic Church, Justin and Karissa Hill, and Souls Harbor Sign Team. This wasRead More…

once a month on every 3rd Wednesday of that month our youth room opens it’s doors up early for free food and tons of fun. This night we try to encourage our youth to bring a friend while working on team building games. To show others that together we cRead More…

Scavenger hunt that takes students around town. Personalized to our own town; you can easily change the listings and use the ideas to suit your own town! We split into separate vehicles and have a set time that we meet back at the church to crown a winRead More…

Photo scavenger hunt that’s completely within Wal-Mart. We split into 4 teams and students took photos with their phones. They texted the photos to my phone, and I kept score! Went over very well with our students. Can be tweaked to fit your group’s neRead More…

Here’s a great activity I did with our students. This idea comes from Courageous Church (YouTube them, they have some cool videos) and was done at the PK conference at BOTT a couple years ago. It was pretty simple to do, I framed a wall and then covereRead More…

Here is a video I made of our Student Ministries creating a backdrop for our Youth Service. We did a Wednesday night series called "Friend Request" talking about the qualities of real friendship and what it looks like to show Christ to othersRead More…

God does extraordinary things through ordinary people. In this series we will examine the Christmas story and see how God used ordinary people as main characters in the greatest story every told. To the world this was unexpected.

Here are some good game ideas for a youth retreat.

The page used on our youths facebook page to kick off our series of "Know What you Believe"

PDF that can used for an event Idea. Contact me at thecrewyouth@gmail.com for custom/editable version.

survey for beginning work with youth

Flyer from Foundation by Forward Student Ministries