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Celebrities work hard to make their name known, so what happens when their names are all mixed up? Use this game as a fun icebreaker as your students face off to see who can decipher these famous names first. First, it’s the name scrambled on its own, and then a clue follows. Play in teams or one on one!

You know all those Disney movies you and your students have seen multiple times? See if they can spot the one lie hidden among two truths, whether by playing it like a gameshow faceoff, or “guys vs girls” by asking for someone from the room to stand up and shout out an answer when you call on them!

Does your group love stories from long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? Put their Star Wars knowledge to the test, be it through a faceoff on stage among your sharpest Jedis, as a crowd icebreaker or as a play-against-someone-nearby competition!

Three years into Kendall’s job as the youth pastor of Grace church, many things are going really well: Kids are connecting and growing. She’s built a solid team of adult leaders. She and her husband love their home, city, and friends. But when Kendall is blindsided by her unsupportive senior pastor, who once again takes the side of a wealthy parent over Kendall’s, it’s the impetus she needs to start reconsidering her future. Is it time for Kendall to move on? And if she does look for a role at a new church, how can she be sure it will be a better fit than this one? 

With this fiction debut, veteran youth worker Jen Bradbury’s novel explores the process of living in to your calling, listening to the voice of God, and continually asking the question, What does the right fit look like, and how do you know when you’ve found it?

Beautiful Rebellion, a book that cuts past unhelpful stereotypes and shows today’s teens that they are uniquely primed to use their whole selves—faith, skepticism, intellectualism, humor, big questions, and all—to bring about a world-changing movement empowered and driven by God’s love.

4 Views on Talking to Teenagers About Sex reflects the thoughts, experiences, and practical advice of four in-the-trenches youth workers, who have spent years having these conversations with the teenagers in their ministries. Representing an array of viewpoints, these writers don’t agree on everything—but they all know that our conversations with teens about sex must speak to God’s design, avoid shame, and go far beyond any one instance of “the talk.

Hierarchical, coercive leadership should have no place in the church. But if we move away from those unbiblical (and ineffective) forms of power-based leadership, we still need to lead. In Leading Without Power, Mark Oestreicher explores—in very pragmatic ways—what it might look like for us to replace power-based leadership modalities with other approaches.

It's time for another big event, camp, retreat, or outreach, and you need a game that your students will be talking about for years to come. I got you! Let me share an amazing messy game I play in my ministry that will help your next event "slide" into the Guinness Book of Epicness.

As school returns, the summer heat begins to fade, and another ministry year starts to ramp up, two things are on the minds of a majority of youth pastors: 

1) Oh no, is Halloween on a Wednesday this year? 
2) I need to plan the Fall Retreat! Planning retreats are often daunting as they require attention to detail across many different areas simultaneously. 

This masterclass series in planning and programming a fall retreat will walk through everything you need to get right with creativity and programming, the questions you need to ask and answer about logistics, and will help you eliminate the potential pitfalls so many make when planning. 

Do you ever find that it can be lonely living as a believer? For thousands of years, God’s people have had to balance living out their faith while being surrounded by those who do not follow God. Sometimes, they may even live among people who are hostile toward God’s people. This four-week devotional is meant to address this very feeling. In Esther: The Time is Now, you will spend time getting to know a cast of people, including Esther and Mordecai. As Jewish people in the Persian Kingdom, they deal with what it means to be God’s people in the midst of a culture that does not honor or worship God. We are continually faced with the same question that Mordecai asked Esther: What if you are meant for a time such as this? The answer is that we are made for such a time. And the time? The Time is Now.

Check out our devotional bundle option here! 

Can you guess which one of these NBA logos has been FLIPPED and is NOT THE REAL LOGO?

Can you identify the board game by simple looking at a single game piece?

Who has had the greatest variety of friend experiences? Find out by having the whole room stand up (or having students who can’t stand raise a hand), and then having them stay standing if what’s read is true of them. Otherwise, they sit down until the game is over (or you generously let everyone back in after a few rounds) and see who is left standing.

Pro-tip: The last question has to do with karaoke and can lead to a karaoke showdown if you want to keep the fun going!

It’s either your favorite carb, or you run from it and all its gluten. Either way, bread is bread – so can you tell the difference between close-ups of it and other things?

Whether you intentionally watch the news or not, we all catch the headlines. See how much you’ve retained from these stories straight out of everyday life, entertainment news, science updates or more...

Figure out the missing word in an effort to WORD UP. Each word builds on the next.

You will be given the name of a famous animated movie. It's your job to determine what company produced the movie based on the four choices given.

Simply determine whether the following actions are considered Lucky or Unlucky around the world.

How well do your students know their favorite celebrities? Have them try to spot the one lie hidden among two truths, whether by playing it like a gameshow faceoff, or “guys vs girls” by asking for someone from the room to stand up and shout out an answer when you call on them!

Ever face off against a big boss, rescue a princess or watched someone do it? Have a blast remembering the classic retro games that made us as you power up from one question to the next!

You will be given the name of a Christian band. Simply decide whether the band is real or fake.

Take a trip back in time to the year 2000. Simple choose what you think is the correct answer to each question.

You will be given a specific McDonald's menu item and a FALSE calorie count. You simply determine whether you think the REAL calorie count is more or less.

See who can get the closest to the actual answer.

You will be given a picture and the name of a weird sport native to a specific country. Select which country the sport belongs to.

You will be given a category. One at a time, list one item in that category. The first person or team who cannot correctly list an item in the given category without repeating an answer is eliminated.

You will be given a category by which you and the members of your group will have to line up in.... WITHOUT TALKING! The first group to line up correctly wins a point.

See how many of these slogans you can match with the correct state.

You will be given a quote from a person in the Bible. Simply choose whom you think said it.

You will be given three words or phrases that all share one common bond. Simply guess what links all three of them together.

You will be given a color. Go head-to-head naming something that is primarily that color. If you freeze and can't say one in 3 seconds or if you repeat an answer already given, your opponent scores a point.

See how many of these crazy presidential trivia questions you can answer correctly.

Work with your team to determine what you think the majority of the other teams will say. Whatever answer is the majority will be the only correct answer.

You will be shown a picture of a musical instrument that looks kinda like a trumpet, but isn't a trumpet. Simply choose from a list of instruments to correctly identify the name of the instrument.

Match the correct animal character name with the type of animal it is.

You know him as "Santa Claus" but do you know what he is referred to around the world? See if you can guess which country calls him by a specific name.