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A guessing game in which participants must use specific yes-no questions to figure out their assigned animal.

Three arguments for your personal testimony

Other games:

- Owls and crows

- Wooden game

- Pine cone fangis

The children/teenagers will cook a meal without the use of normal kitchen utensils.

Rodeo on spring-loaded wooden buck with saddle for teen group occasions in the village / neighbourhood

Lesson for KIDSTREFF

Some churches have switched to the KIDS TREFF/Promiseland model. There are new lesson materials for this. In this post, we take an existing lesson written for Jungschar and modify it so that it can be used in KIDS TREFF. 

See PDF file for detailed description and instructions

Information about copyrights and when you are allowed to put a song on the YoungstarsWiki.

Bedouin teenie camp for 5 days

Four different viewpoints on orienteering:

- Wildlife and bird species in contact with orienteers
- Sensitive terrain areas
- Consequences for course layout
- Ecological orienteering calendar

This season, we will look at the story of William Tyndale, who translated the Bible from Hebrew into English. Through this story we will be able to show the children the importance of the Word and that we should be thankful to have it in a language that is accessible to us. You will experience different things that are part of the story.

Cooperation and togetherness is encouraged with this pants bag game.

On a sheet of paper (or similar) two players have to move as fast as possible without touching the ground.

The text from Luke 19:11-26 (the entrusted pounds) is to be thought through and experienced practically. During the set time, a certain amount of money is to be multiplied in a creative way. The money collected is to go to a social or missionary cause.

Videos are a very effective public relations tool in youth ministry.



There are very many ways in which videos can be used. For example, you can make promotional videos, camp review videos, or pre-event videos for special events.

Individual stickers are always a real eye-catcher. They form a perfect advertising space, can be information carriers, to mark objects or simply used for decoration. Either you print your own stickers at home or look on the Internet for printing companies where you can design your own stickers.

A simple pants bag game that requires quick hopping.

I'll do it! I'm not doing it! Do I? I'm not doing it?

Going out, reaching out to others, takes overcoming. What will she/he think if I suddenly come and exemplify the faith or tell something about it?

I am not going to do it

This article is a Forum booklet article.

The "Five Faces" are different ways in which people come up with creative ideas. Most people use mainly one of the faces. However, each of the faces has advantages and disadvantages and works better in certain situations than in others. Therefore, we should try to train the different faces in us. We should also learn when to use which face best

Worship:
more than a feeling
more than songs
more than many words
more than a tradition
more than a program

What should be the nature of a camp leader?

Leading by example - You are always in the children's field of vision. You shape them unknowingly or consciously!  etc. etc.

Craft a great water rose out of paper and watch it bloom.

Memorizing names is sometimes quite difficult. However, if we do it and consciously address our counterpart by name, we show our appreciation for this person: "You are important enough to me that I have remembered your name."

An excel file listing most of the technical terms in the "youngstars" section, to be used as a basis for translations.

Description of a game idea and its possible implementation. Should inspire to implement ideas yourself, to adapt proven games or to play popular games differently in their own context.

Background of the idea is an own game, which I designed in my spare time for home, but which can also be played in the youth group.

For publicity locally, regionally or nationally of the teen group in church, at crusade, at graduation

See also Create article video

Citygame

Teens must earn points for their group by getting a stamp from the marked stops.

Violence against children - a taboo subject

With this Bible reading idea, you can experience 10 to 15 inspiring minutes together with other people from your group.

Making your own Advent chain to count down till Christmas.

An idea find on www.spelloutloud.com

The team benefits from the strengths of each individual.

This is a fast slalom race of a special kind.

Are you taking home 3 cans of pepper and salt again after every camp?

Do you re-buy all your spices before each camp - and then find more somewhere?

Spices have a long shelf life and can therefore be used again in the next Pfila

The idea of this EPA afternoon is to continue with the story of The Secret of the Wild Wood, experiencing adventures with Ruth and Philip and making a connection to making friends and helping people without prejudice.

This EPA afternoon was a recap of the theme of "The Secret of the Wild Wood" and we tried to include the most revealing moments of the story, wanting to emphasize that by changing Ruth, they were able to help everyone around her by influencing them and they changed.

For leaders in children's and youth work it is certainly one of the most beautiful tasks to promote and use the gifts that God as Creator has given to every human being. It is truly (Lord)ly to see how the Lord has placed them in individual human lives and very regrettable how much lies fallow that could actually be used for the good of all. 

Whether we like it or not, children love an occasion where they can live relationships and have fun. How can we create a child-friendly environment? 

In today's sport: teaching noble values possible, or leaving young people to their fate. A critical view with the university lecturer university lecturer for philosophy and media theory and publicist Ludwig Hasler.

Having time management under control means:

knowing how and sticking to it

Estimating distances takes some practice, but is worthwhile - especially in orienteering and outdoor programming.

Bet: You can't estimate the length of five 50-lappers strung together to within 10 mm?

This article is a Forum issue article and it is attached as a pdf below.

Not only "fun and action" are attractive for kids. A creative project needs a lot of effort - but the result is worth seeing!

This game is perfect for cooling off in summer. Two teams play against each other and the aim is to get the pieces of napkin on the opponent's arm wet with the help of squirts.

e.g. Stauffacher's words on the Rütli - in terms of the idea, they have lost none of their relevance

In search of opportunities for evangelistic children's or youth ministry. A critical analysis, with the goal of finding positive approaches to evangelism!

For a long time the church of F. has regularly made interesting meetings for the family members of the youth and teenagers. Everyone is invited - "family" is not seen so much genetically as "spiritually".

The family is a family

Public relations means to communicate consciously with the public. This can be done, for example, by pushing newspaper articles or organising events that are specifically for the public (or a certain target group) (e.g. children's weeks).

An input on the 9th commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Three different movie scenes from "The Hurricane" with Denzel Washington are shown and a parallel is drawn to the similar case of Jesus. The focus will be on the false testimony and what it caused. The participants should become aware of the effects a false statement can have and they should be sensitized for this topic

In our youth group we first played a game in which one of the youth was wrongly accused of throwing a stone at a leader during an integrated water fight. A whole trial was staged with judge, jury, prosecutor, false witnesses, with some of the participants being part of the jury. Much like the movie "Hurricane."

Of course, you should know the story and plot for input. Watching the movie beforehand can't hurt ;).

Polar bears can be quite dangerous, every Inuit - that's the right name for Eskimos - knows that and gets into his igloo as quickly as possible. This is also the case in this game, in which two groups represent the polar bears and the Inuit, respectively.

How can I take good photos? This article has some tips on how to do that.

Taking photos is easier than shooting movies.