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Mar 2025
17
Jun 2024
Youth Ministry in the Summer!
What do you do in the summer?
Summer is a wild time! Student ministry aside, families take vacations, kids attend all types of summer camps, and who knows what Summer sports are happening! When it comes to work and the regular, you will more than likely feel a little disrupted!
What’s your plan for the summer?
Experiment
Maybe you have fewer students around. It’s a great time to try things out! If you want to change up your programming schedule or a new teaching method, it could be a great time to try it out!
See if it works with a few or during the summer season, and then you’ll know if it’s good to try in the fall!
Take a break
Maybe it’s a good time to take a week or two off! If you’re going on a trip and taking half of your group, consider having the group take a break.
You’ll want to clear this with leadership first, but it may be a good time to try it out if it’s not your normal. Make sure you communicate to everyone that a break is happening!
Or maybe you can take a longer break! Maybe August is a great month to let families and students recover from the summer and get back into the glove before the youth group starts back!
Have some fun
If your group is not normally one to play games or have a fun outing, summer is a great time to see if that might be something you can add to your group!
It can be as easy as meeting up at a coffee shop or having a board game night or as complicated as arranging a trip to a nearby amusement park or planning a giant scavenger hunt!
Summer is a time when the sun is expected, so if you’ve been looking to experiment, go crazy!
Keep it going
Maybe all the churches in your area decide to lay off for the summer. They all take breaks, and your church is the only one around that keeps the regularly scheduled programming. Maybe that’s the best thing for you and your ministry! The rhythm can help students look forward to the summer break when they don’t go to school and see their friends.
If you go this route, just make sure to still take some time for a personal vacation. It’s really important to rest and recover during the summer months!
What do YOU do?
Is there anything on this list that I missed that you like to do during the summer? I would love to hear it! Sound off below in the comments!
Need a summer game to make things a little wild? Try this one out from DYM!
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Nov 2017
Best of 2017: Top-Selling Games in Youth Ministry
The Best of 2017 is a collection of lists – best-selling resources, most buzzed about blog posts or products that moved the #youthministry needle this past year. Up first, we take on the games of the year. Out of literally 1000’s of games, these rose to the very top:
Best of 2017: Youth Ministry Games
GAME OF THE YEAR
Dead Cat
Imagine that your youth group was given a cat to take care of…now imagine that to keep this cat alive, your group would have to make some pretty ridiculous decisions when faced with even more ridiculous circumstances. Dead Cat is a video-based game in which your students get to choose their own adventure based on the choices that they make.
RUNNER UPS
Name That Sound
Chair Trivia
Did They Pumpkin Spice It: Volume 2
YouTube Showdown: Volume 3
HONORABLE MENTION
17 for 2017 Bundle
What was your vote for Game of the Year? What game surprised you? Any games that should have made the list and didn’t? Leave a comment below!
JG
UPDATE: You can buy this very bundle now in the DYM Store, too!
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Nov 2016
CYBER MONDAY GAMES BUNDLE! 18 Games, $19 TODAY Only!
GUEST POST by Ken Leslie
Trivia Style Games
“Famous Last Words” will challenge students to figure out what movie the last sentence is from. In the Bible edition, you can wow your leadership team with your students knowledge of Scripture. In the multiple editions of “What Doesn’t your Youth Leader Know?” You turn the tables and see if You know the Bible trivia. Students will guess weather or not you need a raise for all your Bible expertise. There are more trivia style games to keep your students guessing.
Celebrity Games
Check out the funny images of “Big Head Celebs” or “Whose Mouth is That?” And show your students how hip you are to their culture (pro tip: saying hip totally negates your hipness). There’s also the previously unreleased game “Best Dressed” to use during the upcoming awards season.
Unique Participation Games
Do you like the games where everyone plays? “Disney Charades” will have your students acting out scenes from their favorite movies. “Dude What’s that Smell” may take some prep to get supplies but having students smell items while blindfolded just screams Youth Ministry! You can also turn the hit Tonight Show game Box of Lies into a participation game called “Screen of Lies”. See who your dishonest students are!
This or That Games
No pack would be complete with some this or that style games! “Which is Worse” will give you two terrible options to choose from. Start the arguments now! “Push or Pull” takes a spin at recreating a Price is Right style game for students. See if they know how expensive stuff is on Amazon.
With all these games you will be set. And did we mention the steal of a deal on Cyber Monday? There was some serious back room negotiations to get the price down so low, but the big reason it is so low is so that YOU WIN! Get this steal TODAY before the bundle price goes up! Don’t miss out!