Youth Activities
Creativity-based Relates to seasons of Christian calendar
NEW Book of Fidgets A Jot and Doodle Journal for Christian Youth
Young people today are notorious for having short attention spans. And after spending 35 hours each week in school and several more studying and doing homework, they aren’t interested in coming to church and getting something that looks like a textbook or worksheet. Enter Book of Fidgets, an interactive “doodle journal” that gives youth space to jot, sketch, scribble, and be creative. Instead of filling in blanks or completing crossword puzzles, youth will doodle. They will create. They will have the freedom to go wherever their brains—and, more importantly, the Spirit—leads them. Fidgets includes material for 52 youth group programs, along with a host of other doodling prompts for when youth are waiting for things to get started or when their hands need to be doing something so that their minds can focus. Fidgets offers doodle-centric sessions related to the seasons of the Christian calendar, cultural holidays (such as Thanksgiving and Super Bowl Sunday), Scripture, and topics that teens care about. Abingdon Press. Coming September 2013. 9781426769863
$11.99 FREE downloadable Leader Guide available online with the purchase of the printed resource.
Fun & instructive activities
All-inclusive, video-based program
Less time planning; more time engaging
Flexible, contemporary new study for youth
Sunday school, youth groups, or retreats
The Power of Youth Rodger Nishioka on Being Visionaries and Prophets Rodger Nishioka with Bronwyn Skov
Ready-to-Go Ready-made events come complete with everything you need to easily prepare and smoothly execute fun, instructive, and relevant youth activities. The fully developed plans allow youth leaders to host youth events of substance and quality, with a minimal up-front time investment. Ready-to-Go books contain comprehensive plans for retreats, lock-ins, fundraisers, youth missions, service projects, and devotions. In addition to coordinated devotional plans, discussions, and activities, they include all the event accessories such as publicity flyers and parental forms. Abingdon Press.
Exciting, innovative, and fresh, this new resource aims squarely at today’s youth with an all-inclusive program featuring video, leader’s guide, and reproducible handouts. Eight 3- to 5-minute video clips drawn from the 2011 Episcopal Youth Event featuring Rodger Nishioka set the stage for an engaged discussion among a group of teens moderated by Bronwyn Skov. The videos focus on what it means for youth to be visionaries and prophets in today’s teen culture. At times challenging, often amusing, and always relevant, these presentations challenge your own group to “keep the discussion going” using the included study materials. Help your teens discover The Power of Youth! Morehouse Education Resources.
Each, $19.99
In this series:
9780687492916 9780687335077 9780687492176 9780687492275 9780687492817
$49.95
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Youth-Group Activities Fundraisers Devotions for Mission & Service Service Projects Retreats & Lock-Ins
Transformed by mission trip
Create classrooms in the community
Package of 5
Day camp opportunity
Reentry What I Learned on My Mission Trip Hank Hillard
Destination Unknown: Missions 30 Excursions to Transform Your Community Sam Halverson
Groups often spend months preparing for a mission trip but, too often, after youth come home, they go on with their lives as though nothing happened. Mission experiences should be transformative. This guide helps youth process and apply the mission experience, both on the way home from a trip or after they return. Through group discussion, individual reflection, Bible study, and journaling, they’ll see how they used their unique gifts in service of God and others and discover how to apply what they have learned and to make mission a way of life. Developed and tested by the Division on Ministries With Young People at the General Board of Discipleship. Abingdon Press. 9781426753671
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Destination Unknown Mission has 30 singleevening or single-afternoon excursions which introduce your youth to ministries, organizations, causes, and more. The activities allow you and your group to work together to help in your community, while helping each person to find a place to make a long-term commitment. Also included are instructions for organizing and operating a week-long day camp for children in the community, along with a retreat to allow more reflection and visioning. There, youth will prayerfully discern ways to serve the community and make a difference. Abingdon Press. 9781426753794
$14.99
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