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    Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities: 101 Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, and Ideas for Busy Leaders
    Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities: 101 Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, and Ideas for Busy Leaders
    Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities: 101 Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, and Ideas for Busy Leaders
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    Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities: 101 Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, and Ideas for Busy Leaders

    By Rev. Todd Outcalt

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    Ready-Made Event Packages
    ...Just Add Youth Group
    FULLY LOADEDAll Options, Extras & Side Items IncludedThese ready-made event packages are completely accessorized with everything you need to easilyprepare and smoothly execute fun and instructive youth activities. You can spend less time on planning event details, and more time directly engaging your teens.These plans cover every detail, even laying out hour-by-hour schedules for you.Think of the convenience. Think of all the up-front prep time you can save. The unique benefit of the Ready-To-Go series is that these activity materials go beyond merely offering ideas. Ready to Go resources instead provide fully developed activity & event plans. These allow the youth leader to host youth events of substance & quality, with a minimal up-front time investment. It’s like offering a baked cake instead of a cake recipe & ingredients. Or, offering a fully-assembled ready-to-use playground set…instead of loose components in a box with assembly instructions. This book features 101 ready-to-go lessons that Youth Leaders can use in a Sunday School setting, in youth meetings, or retreats. It also contains meeting ideas and lessons that can be utilized quickly and effectively when the need arises. Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities includes --


    Meeting starters

    Short Bible studies

    Test worksheets

    Fliers

    Parable studies with skits

    Games

    Small events with little or no prep time

    Meeting closers

    A scripture index.
    All materials are reproducible.Ready-To-Go resources are equipped with event themes that target contemporary issues teens face in the real world. These relevant messages are delivered with impact, through coordinated devotional plans, discussion frameworks, and captivating activities. All the event accessories you need, down to publicity fliers and parental forms are included. Just add youth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2010
    ISBN9781426734731
    Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities: 101 Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, and Ideas for Busy Leaders
    Author

    Rev. Todd Outcalt

    Todd Outcalt is a United Methodist pastor in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been active in youth ministry for more than 17 years and has led eight youth mission trips in the United States and abroad. He also has led several youth Bible studies and training events.

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      Ready-to-Go Youth Group Activities - Rev. Todd Outcalt

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      Copyright © 2005 by Abingdon Press. All rights reserved.

      With the exception of those items so noted, no part of this work may be

      reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or

      mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information

      storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976

      Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission should be addressed to Abingdon Press,

      201 Eighth Avenue, South, P.O. Box 801,

      Nashville, TN 37202-0801.

      Scripture quotations marked (NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard

      Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the

      National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.

      Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      Editorial Team

      Editor: Jennifer A. Youngman

      Production Editor: Pam Shepherd

      Writer: Todd Outcalt

      Design Team

      Design Manager: Keely Moore

      Designer: Keely Moore

      COVER DESIGN: Keitha Vincent

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      To the youth, staff,

      and people of

      Calvary United Methodist Church

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      Why You Need This Book

      Chapter 1: Ballistic Beginnings

      Chapter 2: Stupendous Studies

      Chapter 3: Terrific Tests

      Chapter 4: Fantastic Fliers

      Chapter 5: Prodigious Parables

      Chapter 6: Radical Recreation

      Chapter 7: Enlightening Endings

      Scripture & Theme Indexes

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      Here's how it goes: You've planned meticulously for that youth meeting, retreat, or class—and then, inevitably, something goes awry. A featured speaker suddenly becomes sick. The teenager scheduled to lead the devotion doesn't show up. Sometimes the only thing left to do is ask a volunteer to fill in.

      In youth ministry, unexpected turns can test your nerve and summon the very best that you have to offer. And sometimes you just need that one resource to get you over the hump and transform an otherwise disastrous meeting into a top-notch event.

      That's what this book is about—those lastminute, unexpected circumstances that leave you with little to no time to prepare for a youth meeting. If you've ever had to bridge the gap in an unexpected situation, you already know the value of this last-minute resource. I hope you rarely have to use it!

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      A positive start is key to student participation in a youth group meeting. A good beginning sets everyone to moving, thinking, and learning. These activities are jumpstarts that will ignite your students and set the stage for more serious quests. Some are fun, others are more cerebral—but all of these activities work well in a pinch.

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      (1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 14-18)

      Supplies: A toolbox filled with a wide assortment of tools such as screwdrivers, hammers, and wrenches. Also include some out-of-the-ordinary tools such as a tire-pressure gauge, a pair of work gloves, jumper cables, and perhaps some gardening tools or electrical tape.

      Read aloud 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 14-18. Then say something like: "Each of us has been given gifts by God. Each of these gifts is useful and beneficial to the whole of God's work. But sometimes we need a way to discover our spiritual gifts. That's why I've brought this toolbox—as a way to help you consider your gifts. Take a few moments to look through the toolbox, then choose a tool that matches a gift or trait that you believe you possess.

      For example, you may choose a tire-pressure gauge, because you think that you are good at lifting up other people and helping to relieve the stress or pressure in their lives. Or you may choose a set of jumper cables because you believe that you are an energetic person and that your magnetism and excitement rub off on other people. Afterward be prepared to tell the group why you chose your particular tool.

      Give everyone the opportunity to talk about his or her gift. This beginning can also lead to a deeper discussion of 1 Corinthians 12 or a lesson about spiritual gifts.

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      This discussion may generate a few laughs as well as more serious pondering about dreams and their place in our lives.

      Ask the following questions and invite youth to respond by considering: What might this dream mean? What might be significant about this dream? (It surely goes without saying, but you might want to mention the difference between appropriate- and inappropriate-for-discussion dreams.)

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