How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others… But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways,
Game Description
In this relay game, each person on a team must use a straw in thier mouth and suction to carry an object across the room and back.
Game Materials
beans or dried peas and straws for each person
Optimal Group Size
Any size group divided into teams of equal number. If a team is short a person, then …
Game Description
In this crowdbreaker, youth will try to guess the identity of a murderer, before they are murdered.
Game Materials
Deck of playing cards, chairs arranged in a circle for 6 to 52 players. Reduce the cards to the number of players available to insure someone gets the “murder” card.
Optimal Group Size
6 or more youth
Game Venue…
God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does He make only one star shine onto the earth. God’s mystery is the rich spectrum of color that is gathered together in the purity of the sun’s white light. The symphonic harmony of all the stars is built up on …
Game Description
This messy game has no lesson or meaning and is simply an opportunity for youth to have fun while getting a little messy with their dessert.
Game Materials
All the ingredients of an ice-cream Sundae. (A typical sundae may have ice cream, chocolate syrup, strawberry topping, candy sprinkles, banana slices, whip cream and just about anything else you …
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray my sanity to keep.
For if some peace I do not find,
I’m pretty sure I’ll lose my mind.
I pray I find a little quiet
Far from the daily family riot
May I lie back–not have to think
about what they’re stuffing down the sink,
or who they’re with, or …
Game Description
In this classic simulation game, youth learn what it means to stand up for one’s faith and to totally trust God even in situations where they may face incredible adversity.
Game Materials
None
Optimal Group Size
Minimum of 8 youth, preferrably a larger group. (Depending on the size of the group leaders can take the roles as Romans …
You spend years trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you are both breathless. They crash … they hit the roof … you patch, comfort and assure them that someday they will fly.
Finally, they are airborne. They need more string, and you keep letting it out. They tug, and with each twist of the …
Game Description
In this group builder, youth will learn to trust one another.
Game Materials
Blindfold (optional)
Optimal Group Size
8-12 youth. For large groups, break the group up into smaller ones of 8-12 people.
Game Venue
Open area large enough for the groups to form two lines facing each other.
Game Preparation
Preclude this game with a reminder that …
A man decided that he was going to ride a 10-speed bike from Phoenix to Flagstaff. He got as far as Black Canyon City before the mountains just became too much and he could go no farther.
He stuck his thumb out, but after 3 hours he hadn’t gotten a single person to stop. Finally a guy in a Corvette …