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 Youth in the Church Activities - Youth GroupActivities 

Reaching the Youth in Your Church Let's face it, the youth in your church are the future of your church! It isimportant to keep them interested and involved in your church programs.Include them in as many programs, activity events, and worship programsas possible. Kids and Teens love to be included! 

Talent Showcase Night Activities for Youth in the Church 

Talent showcase night in your church is a great time to have kids of allages show their talents. Even adults can participate in this activity. God hastold us to share our talents with others and we should do so.

Divide your church talents into 3 areas. One would be stage talent. If yourchurch does not have a stage area use the dinning hall or social hall ofyour church. Encourage all youth both inside and outside of your churchfamily who play an instrument, sing, dance, write, do a sport, to be part ofthis talent group. Set up the order so that the audience is not listening to 5people in a row play the piano. Spread the talent out throughout the night.Encourage the audience to clap and cheer. Have a table talent area where youth can display their artwork, craft work,and other talents that can be considered similar. Have nice table clothes onthe tables and have the youth print their name and a brief description ofwhat their table talent is on a folded 3X5 card to display with their talent sothat everyone can see. A third area of talent you could include is a baking talent area. Children andadults can make their favorite dessert and put it on a dessert table. Onceagain, have the bakers put their name and a description of their dessert ona folded 3X5 card to display near their dessert they made. This type of

talent serves two purposes. One, people get to show their favorite dessertthey made and two, once the talent showcase is done, you've got dessertfor everyone for a fellowship time! 

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 Having awards, trophies, or ribbons to give for everyone who participated inyour Talent Showcase Night at Church is a personal choice. This shouldnot be turned into a "competition", but giving everyone a ribbon forparticipating would be a nice jester and it will be something they will have toremember the evening. 

Fundraising for your church... Church Fundraising Events & Activities 

Jump for Jesus 

This is a great church fundraiser for children! Children canparticipate in helping their church grow and learn the importance ofdaily physical activity. "Jump for Jesus" will be a positive experiencefor the children while they contribute to their church. -Once the date, time, and location for your Jump for Jesus churchfundraiser has been picked, allow students 6-8 weeks to collectcontributions/donations from friends and family. -Remind children to dress comfortably. -Make sure you have a registered nurse on hand in case of injury orillness. -Have plenty of water on hand. -Have a warm up and stretch session before hand, and a cool-down

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session when the jumping is done. -Students who are not able to jump can participate by working the drinkstation, or helping with timing/counting. -Have plenty of extra jump ropes on hand. -Have plenty of adult help to supervise areas and stations at your

event. Get the whole church family involved! 

Make the event extra special fun! Have upbeat music playing softly inthe background. Have healthy snacks available for the end of the event.Get T-shirts made up saying "I jump for Jesus" and hand them out toeveryone afterwards. Or give the T-shirts as incentives for the mostcontributions, or jumps, etc... To make your event more organized,have all helpers wear an "I jump for Jesus" T-shirt. This will let eachchild and parent know who is a helper at the event.

You can collect donations by the jump, by the time the child spent

 jumping, or just by a money amount that perhaps the donator wanted togive. Don't forget to let your contributors know where the money fromthis fundraiser is going to. Perhaps put it on the sheet you make up forlist of donations. Make signs to post around the area you are holdingthe event too. 

How to Host a Bible Quiz- Jeopardy Style 

Winners of the 4th annual Bible Quiz  If you would like to host a Bible Quiz Jeopardy Style for your churchfollow these simple rules which are set up very similar to the show,

Jeopardy: 

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First, Let's Make up Your Board -Make up a large board for everyone to see (use a chalk board, or 4poster boards taped together, etc...) -Have 4-5 categories-Under each category have points 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 in a column 

This is what your board may look like: 

Bible Facts  What & Who  Places  Numbers  Before andAfter  

10  10  10  10  10 20  20  20  20  20 30  30  30  30  30 40  40  40  40  40 50  50  50  50  50 

How to Play: - Follow the chart above for category ideas and point value ideas. - To make this the fairest game possible, team one starts with aquestion of their choice. Let's say they pick "What & Who for 40", andthey get it right. They receive 40 points and the game moves on toteam two. If they get it wrong, they get 0 points, the question is thrownout, and move onto team two. (Have the game show host give thecorrect answer with the scripture reference. This way everyoneincluding the spectators will learn and know more about the book of theBible your game show is doing.) The last question of the game shouldbe asked to the last team, this way, every team will be asked the same

number of questions. 

-Questions worth 10 points should be the easiest, with the questionsgetting more difficult as the points get higher. There are two ways tohandle the questions. One, only have one question per point amount.Example; one question under 10 points for Places. Once that questionis asked it can not be asked again. Continue this until all points havebeen asked in each category. This is how the TV show Jeopardy isdone. If you have another set of questions, play a round two and so on.Or have about 10-15 questions per point amount and play continuouslyuntil a time limit is up. Example; one hour. -Pick a time limit and continue to play straight thru with no interruption.

The best time is one hour of straight playing. Each team should have45 seconds to one minute to answer a question. (A timer with a stopwatch is highly recommended.) Any longer will make the game dragout. Total the scores, and then play final Jeopardy. 

Final Jeopardy: -Once again to make this the fairest game possible, each team shouldbe given a pen and an envelope with a paper in it which has 1, 2, or 3questions written on it. Each team should be given the same

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question/s. Each question is worth 100 points. The teams have 4minutes to answer the questions. Total the Jeopardy scores with theFinal Jeopardy scores to calculate your winning team.