Tips & Ideas for Youth Groups

Series Summary

Youth ministry is an important aspect of most churches today. The purpose of youth ministry and youth groups, in most church environments, is to teach youth about the Lord Jesus Christ and encourage them to follow Him. Youth groups give young adults a place to go to participate in exciting activities that satisfy their desire for fun and adventure, in godly ways. Most youth groups provide an education for young people and help teens find their God given direction and purpose in this world that God has created for us.

Providing activities to entertain, teach and guide groups of young adults or teens is a challenging endeavor. This is usually done by a youth pastor or adult supervisor within the church. There are many creative outlets used in activities for children’s ministry including videos, skits, puppet performances, games, and lessons or sermons. In this series of expert videos, our expert will give you many ideas for performing youth group activities. Watch as our expert gives an introduction to different props used with youth groups including balloons, puppets, costumes and building blocks. Get tips on safety measure to adhere to while performing youth group activities. Also learn about creating sets and stages for plays or performances in a youth group setting. Learn how to influence and promote positive attitudes among children by using your own creative outlet in these informative video clips.

Video Transcript

"Hello, I am Jeff Trentham, children’s pastor here at Calvary Church and I would like to come to you on behalf of Expert Village just to give you some insight on how we capture the attention of kids and how we keep them energized and excited here at Calvary Church. We ministered over 400 kids every week and we have up here in the wave that is the elementary-age kids, we have about 230 that we minister to. So you could just immediately think ‘My goodness, that is going to be difficult to capture all of their attention’, but we have a lot of neat things that we do up here and I would like to give you some insight as to what we do here at Calvary Church. Well as you can see, our facility is geared toward kids and reaching them. And we have got all kinds of fun stuff here and if you look around you can see all of the cool decorations. We have gone as far as we could, out of our way to really make sure that the kids when they come up and check out this facility they are seeing something exciting and something cool that is happening. And that captures their attention; there is something exciting happening here every time that they are up here on Sunday mornings. So that is one of the ways that you can capture their attention. Hello, I am Jeff Trentham, children’s pastor here at Calvary Church and I would like to come to you on behalf of Expert Village just to give you some insight on how we capture the attention of kids and how we keep them energized and excited here at Calvary Church. We ministered over 400 kids every week and we have up here in the wave that is the elementary-age kids, we have about 230 that we minister to. So you could just immediately think ‘My goodness, that is going to be difficult to capture all of their attention’, but we have a lot of neat things that we do up here and I would like to give you some insight as to what we do here at Calvary Church. Well as you can see, our facility is geared toward kids and reaching them. And we have got all kinds of fun stuff here and if you look around you can see all of the cool decorations. We have gone as far as we could, out of our way to really make sure that the kids when they come up and check out this facility they are seeing something exciting and something cool that is happening. And that captures their attention; there is something exciting happening here every time that they are up here on Sunday mornings. So that is one of the ways that you can capture their attention. "