The Bible NETWork ~ Impacting the World for Christ one post at a time!

Here will be a thread for us to list ideas to liven up the youth group, to make it more of a "safe" and "welcome" environment for our youth. Once again, submissions should be made only if you are willing to release them to the public domain.
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1. Youth Room Redecoration - We give one of our youth our digital camera each night and allow them to take pictures throughout the night. We then will develop those photos and place them upon the walls. The idea is to have a blank piece of paper surrounded by pictures of a student and with a profile of them. The blank sheet of paper is a "prayer wall" for them to list prayer requests on. When it is full they can get a new one and put it up in its stead. Each youth gets their own small section of the wall. Pictures are placed on colored paper so that students can write funny (and clean) comments under the pictures. In-between the individual students sections are just general pictures of youth group events. We also intend to add a section with pictures of our church members and their prayer requests/profiles. This will allow the youth to get to know the adults in the church and avoid a youth/adult disconnect. It is our intent to have the youth do the profiling of the adults, as they already do the profiling of their fellow students.
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2. Monthly Newsletter - We highly recommend a monthly newsletter. Ours generally consists of a schedule of events, perhaps a small article written by a youth or leader, and oftentimes a comic, crossword puzzle, or etc. created by one of the youth. It also regularly includes a profile of a student or leader done by another student or leader.