With the current economic situation there are many families in need. Why not provide a Christmas shoebox and donate it to someone in need and to tell people about Jesus. Local shelters and relief agencies might have suggestions as well. Your local church may also have a family you can adopt to help as well.
When you fill your box, …
Introduction
Use this Christmas Gift Exchange Game with more mature youth as a serious time of affirmation and thanks for the various members of the youth group. Include the adult sponsors as well.
Game Description
In this Christmas Gift exchange, it is affirmations that are exchanged and not actual physical gifts. It’s a very powerful way to bring your teens …
Introduction
In this Christmas variation of a game of dodge-ball, you can still play even if you have been eliminated.
Game Description
In typical dodge-ball fashion, players try to eliminate others by hitting them with a dodge-ball.
Game Materials
Depending on the size of the group you may want to use one snowball or several. The larger the group the …
“Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.”
– Larry Wilde
“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”
– Bernard Manning
“What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.”
– Unknown
“There are some people …
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
– Harlan Miller
“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more …
“This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus… When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as …
“Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.”
– Grace Noll Crowell
“There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning …
Materials
A gift from each participant
There are many different variations of the gift exchange at Christmas. This is merely one of them.
How gifts are exchanged:
A. Multiply the number of players by 2 or 3 depending on how large the group is and how many opportunities each person will be able to choose a gift. (Example: 10 players …
“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be that his head wasn’t screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too …
Have a blank flip chart or sheets of newsprint prepared with all the letters of the alphabet from A to Z. Ask participants to fill in a holiday word or phrase that starts with each letter. Here are examples for you to use. Give bonus points for the letters Q, U, V, and Z.
A. Angels
B. Bells
C. Candy …