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Mark 11: 24 says, "Therefore I say to you, All things, whatever you ask, praying, believe that you shall receive them, and it will be to you." What a great verse which supports the promise that God will supply all our needs according to His riches in Glory" (...

Matthew 5v12 has this great verse "Rejoice and be exceedingly glad"; until you read it in its context and look at verse 11.Consider: 2 Timothy 3:12, " Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." Hebrews 5:8. Christ learnt o...

2Peter 3:7-9 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a tho...

I pose the following question not with a judgmental heart but rather with one that is often grieved when I see what people do with God's gifts and revelations that He gives to them. I have pondered this for many years with the following response being triggere...

The following game needs to be played outside and preferably at night. It has been played successfully with up to four teams.  Divide the group into teams of up to 10 people. Each team is given  the following: some or of marking to identify them e.g. specia...

Divide the group into teams of between 3 and 5.  Each team is given a pizza base and then needs to go out into the community and try to secure the necessary toppings and ingredients to make a pizza. They also need to find a place to cook the pizza. All teams ...

Using masking tape or some other system of marking, set up the following court. The game is played using a light plastic children's ball. The objective is for each play to try and reach square 1 and then stay there as long as possible. If a player makes a ...

Similar to netball but instead of netball hoops, a player from each team stands on a chair (where their hoop would usually be) and has to catch the ball thrown to them in order for their team to score.

Olympics with a difference. The group is divided into teams. Each team then decides on a name for themselves. For each even, everyone competes with their score going to that of their team's. 1st Place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 3 and third gets 1. Events (Each...

Divide the group into teams of not more than five members each.  Give each team a tape-recorder/dicta-phone/MP3 recorder and a nominated Bible event (Old Testament events work best). They then have an hour to go and turn their event into a radio play. The fun...

This purpose of this is to gain a little insight into the young people making up your group. Divide the group up into groups of not more than 10 people.  The week before each person is asked to bring a recording of their favourite song or music which they wil...

Teams are given a list of items that need to be collected by a certain time. The team that gets back first with all the items wins. Teams may be disqualified if their items are not a close enough match to the ones on the list. Examples: A newspaper form a ...

Divide the group into teams of three to five people each. Give each team a pile  of old newspapers, a role of sticky tape and some scissors.  For each team, one person is chosen to be the model and the others the designers. The designers are then to create ...

The group visits four different homes, each which provide a different part of the evening's meals. House 1: Starters House 2: Mains House 3: Desert House 4: Tea/Coffee Transport to the homes can be via car or on foot (depending on the distances). If o...

This activities revolves around various paper airplane challenges.  If the group is large then divide it up into teams of between 3 to 4 people, otherwise let each person compete as an individual. For each challenge, each team is given the identical resource...

Cut off the the bottom corners (as indicated by the dotted lines below) of four pieces of tissue paper (50x75cm) . Using paper glue, construct the following paper balloon. You will need to cut out a square piece to close the top of the balloon. Use some thi...

Divide the group into teams of not more that five.  For each activity the teams can get one of the following scores: 1st: 5 2nd: 3 3rd: 1 At the end the team with the highest score wins. Warm up Give each team a single banana. Get each group to st...

At the beginning of the evening everyone writes down one embarrassing movement (which their name) on a piece of paper. The person running the evening need chooses a number of these that he or she feels will work best. Using one of the selected embarrassing mo...

Randomly choose two people from the group and get them to stand in the front. Without warning, tell one of the two that they now only speak a foreign language which no one in the group understands e.g. Ancient Chinese. The other is told that they are the tran...

Have one of the leaders stand up front with a blanket over them. Inform the rest of the group that under the blanked stands the world's ugliest man. In fact they are so ugly that should anyone happen to see them then that person would fall down dead. To demons...