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and Playful Ideas from the New Games Foundation

Type: BOOK
Author: Fluegelman, Andrew
( Games , General )

New Games are creative, fun games for everyone (all ages) everywhere. The book is organized into sections for differing group sizes and differing activity levels. It can be used from parks and gyms to company picnics and family reunions.

Bible Challenge - Board Game

Type: BOOK
Author: Barineau, James E.
( Bible , Bible Study , Bible/New Testament , Bible/Old Testament , Games , General )

This board game is designed to teach the Bible. As a game, it makes Bible study come alive with fun and excitement - for people of all ages. It's great for families, friends, and is very flexible. It can be played in many different ways.

Church Parties for Juniors

Type: BOOK
Author: Miley, Arthur, L.
( Games , General , Teaching Aids , Upper Elementary )

Party ideas for upper elementary students, listed by season. Helps teach Bible stories and are an excellent way of changing the pace of your meetings.

Creating and Playing Games with Students

Type: BOOK
Author: Schaupp, Jack
( Games , General , Teaching Aids )

This book shows how to adapt rules of a few game models. Explains a process by which games can express the creativity of participants on a given subject. It is intended to facilitate the teacher and class in developing classroom games as partners.

Fun Group Games for Children's Ministry

Type: BOOK
Author: Sparks, Lee, ed.
( Children , Children's Ministry , Games , General )

100 faith-building games for fun, learning, and building a closer group. Includes Bible-learning games, energy-building games, games with a message, get-to-know-you games, fun group games, relays, and teamwork builders.

Go For It! - 25 Faith-Building Adventures for Groups

Type: BOOK
Author: Marcum, Walt
( Games , General , Programming , Retreats , Sunday School , Youth )

Cure the Sunday school blahs! Liven up youth group times! Recreate selected challenge initiatives from the popular ropes courses in your space - indoors or out. Link each challenge with Scripture! Make learning an adventure in faith-building. This book provides 25 challenge initiatives that require a youth group to communicate and work together as a team to solve. Excellent for summer Sunday school or retreats.

Good Clean Fun: 50 Nifty Games for Junior Highers

Type: BOOK
Author: Finley, Tom
( Games , General , Youth )

50 action-packed challenges and puzzlers wrapped around the Word of God. Some easy, some hard, all related to Bible verses.

Hunger: Understanding the Crisis through Games, Drama and Songs

Type: BOOK
Author: Sprinkle, Patricia
( Adult , Children , Christian Education , Drama , Education , Games , General , Hunger , Music , Teaching Aids , Youth )

Resource/handbook to raise awareness of hunger issues. Catalogues by age group (children-adult), size of group, time needed and types of activities plus suggestions for additional activities and materials. Excellent ed. program supplement. Includes Bible games, fact-finding games, life-style evaluations, songs for worship and fun, experiential activities, and programs involving food settings.

Mudpie Olympics and 99 Other Nonedible Games

Type: BOOK
Author: Ball-Kilbourne, Debra
( Games , General , Youth )

No group should ever suffer from boredom again! Mudpie Olympics provides the remedy - in the form of 100 fun-filled games for youth, older children and even adults! Included are games for ice-breakers, crowd pleasers, radical relays and races, volleyball variations, sweaty stuff, bonding games, and strictly quiet games.

New Games Book, The: Play Hard, Play Fair, Nobody Hurt

Type: BOOK
Author:
( Adult , Education , Games , General , Youth )

60 New Games for all ages (including adults…even husbands and wives!). In these games there are no spectators, no 2nd string players, games for a whole family and a whole day, games in which aggression fades into laughter. Divided into sections by the number of players, descriptively illustrated with photographs.

Play It! The Best of Play It! And Play It Again!

Type: BOOK
Author: Rice and Yaconelli
( Games , General , Small Groups , Youth )

This book has over 150 great community-building games for youth groups.

Serendipity Small Group Resources Ice-Breakers and Heart-Warmers: 101 Ways to Kick Off and End Meetings

Type: BOOK
Author: Sheely, Steve
( Games , General , Small Group Ministry , Small Groups )

This book is a collection of Ice-Breakers and Heart-Warmers especially written for a variety of Christian small groups. Some of these activities are Serendipity classics, but many of them are brand new. It is a treasure chest of helpful activities designed to make your small group a place of trust, growth, and compassion.

Try This One Too: Ideas for Youth Groups

Type: BOOK
Author: Sparks, Lee
( Fund Raising , Games , General , Outreach , Programming , Worship , Youth )

This book is a veritable trunk, stuffed full of creative, useful and easy-to-do youth group ideas: drown-breakers, games, parties, worship, outreach, fund-raisers, holidays and special programs.

Youth Specialties Convention 2002 Tapes Set 5

Type: TAPE
Author: Youth Specialties
( Games , General , Leadership , Ministry , Parent/Child Relationship , Small Groups , Volunteers , Young Adult , Youth Minister Issues )

Developing an effective ministry to parents of teens (Marv Penner), Finding, developing and nurturing the adult leaders your students deserve (Duffy Robbins), Incredibly hot games and community builders #1 and #2 (Les Christie), Small groups: the key to touching your students deeply #1 and #2 (Laurie Polich)