What you need: a swimming noddle, bases, a whiffle ball, water hose.Here's a fun summer game that not only will engage your teens but cool them off on a hot summer day. Play the game as you would softball,...

Bring in a pile of newspapers, news magazines or printed Internet news articles. Ask each teenager to find a news story or happening in the community, nation or the world that captures his or her heart.&nb...

Divide into two teams and give each team a filled squirt gun and some index cards and pencils. After each team has created its list of movie titles, familiar phrases, common expressions, etc., one person on the...

This is a wonderful game to play on a bus or when you have a confined space or need a quick filler. Basically, as leader you assign points for various objects that people may have on his or her person (or ...

Invite the entire group to stand. Then, as leader, begin offering statements beginning with the phase, "Sit down if..."• "Sit down if you have ever been to Canada."• "Sit down if you wear contact le...

John S. McClureBaylor University Press, 2011, 250 pp., $24.95John McClure has rendered a valuable gift to music and theology with Mashup Religion. In fact, this book offers a unique view of music-writing and th...

Wess StaffordMoody, 2012, 224 pp., $19.99Looking back, I can see that small moments impacted my life in large ways: a conversation with a coach, a lesson with a teacher, a day with a parent, a minute with the y...

Kate BattistelliCharisma House, 2012, 240 pp., $14.99Parents never can see the full impact of their day-to-day decisions on the life of a child—especially when a parent is navigating the rough waters of a...

Every church needs an annual Spring Fling, and the teenagers are the ones who can make it happen. Here's how it works.Invite the teenagers to bring their unwanted items from home to an upcoming meeting. Wi...

This lesson/game will help to create an Easter atmosphere in your youth group. Use Matthew 28:1-6 as your biblical reference, with special attention given to the earthquake that accompanied the resurrection of ...