Free Group Activity: Plugged In
As Christians, we're designed to be connected to God at all times—to be "plugged in" to the source. In this five-week, DVD-based Small Group curriculum, Doug Fields takes on the challenge of getting students...
Icebreaker: Number Associations
Set a predertermined about of time. Have each player in turn call out any number between one and 12. Whoever is first among the other players to respond with an appropriate association scores a point.For e...
Soul Care: Measuring Ourselves Against Our Own Words
How deep does our integrity go? In ministry we teach, counsel and speak; but how do our lives measure up against our own words?Several years ago, I was stranded in the Knoxville airport for more than four hours...
Groups Promote Juvenile Justice
Question: Which country sentences more citizens under the age of 18 to life without parole than any other major developed nation? If you guessed the United States of America (with nearly 100,000 juveniles in de...
Meet Your New (Rich!) Family
The BackdropPicture this scene from the Roman world of New Testament times: A son is born into a poor family with a huge financial debt. The son's parents pass away, leaving the son with the debt. Because the c...
Youth Culture Lesson: Going Techless
Girl Finds New Interests in Week Without PhoneGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened: Deisha Brown Campbell, 13, thought that giving up technology for a shor...
Attempting to Bridge the Gap
From Youth Ministry Matters: You can't blame people for behaving in ways you've taught them to behave. And you can't get mad when people fail if you've set them up to fail. I'm beginning to realize that we've...
Youth Culture: Giving Up Tech
Deisha Brown Campbell, 13, thought that giving up technology for a short time would be simple. but when she was forced to put away her phone and computer time for a whole week—part of an experiment for "N...
Maximum Impact: From Short-Term Missions to Long-Term Results
Nothing feels better than a cold drink after a long day of painting and roofing. I'm talking to my new friend, Bapit, one of the older kids in the orphanage we are visiting in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Bapit and I ...
How To Save A Life
This video was created by Kerusso, the student drama and worship ministry Parkway Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri. Explained by youth pastor Jasper Rains: "After seeing the movie To Save A Life, we did a ...