Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Drive ’08 - Pastor’s Conference - North Point":
What in the world is the (W)ELS teaching their kids?...
Things to remember when planning youth group activities:
Activities should vary covering these five areas: Recreation, Worship, Learning, Fellowship, Service.
Don't be afraid to beg, borrow and steal ideas that work from anyone!
Long weekend of rustic camping (no running water or amenities): your group will connect on an entirely new level (spiritually and socially).
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Drive In movie in church parking lot. Invite community.
Connect with congregations further away by agreeing to an acitivity (sic) half-way between both
"Traveling lock-in": Go to restaurant for supper, go bowling, stop for ice-cream, have devotion at another location, go roller-skating, end up back at church for movies and lock-in.
Have a community open-gym with planned activities for all ages
"Youth & pie auction": Serve pie and ice-cream, sell pies. Auction off kids for services like cleaning windows, garages, mowing lawns, raking, etc.
Free car wash (of course, donations are accepted)!
Sponsor a free concert on church grounds. Inform the community through door hangers distributed by teens.
Host a booth at the county fair.
Get teens involved in weekly church services: assisting Sunday school teachers, child care during worship/communion, ushering, greeting, etc.
Host a soccer camps for community youth
Have a float in the parade and have teens handing out flyers about church's upcoming events.
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GJ - When all else fails, try the Word of God, Lutherans. The Love Shack wants everyone busy doing something, no matter what. That happens when men are paid enormous salaries and benefits to look busy and cajole congregations into looking busy, so everyone can say, "Look at how busy we are!"
