Community-Building Ideas for Ministry With

Community-Building Ideas for Ministry with Young Teens contains eighty team-building exercises that help young adolescents build solid, trusting relationships with peers in a nurturing, emotionally safe, and personally challenging atmosphere.

Introduction

7

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Part A: Forming Small Groups

It's a Match

15

(5)

Comic Strip Capers

20

(2)

It's in the Cards

22

(3)

Shoe Search

25

(2)

Let's Make a Sandwich

27

(3)

Phrase Match

30

(3)

Word Clumps

33

(2)

Cereal Box Puzzles

35

(2)

Lego Puzzler

37

(2)

Preferences Name Tags

39

(3)

Release Me Relay

42

(2)

A Baker's Dozen Short Groupers

44

(4)

Fifty Ways to Choose a Leader

48

(5)

Part B: Gathering and Mingling

Me Too!

53

(3)

On a Typical Day

56

(3)

People Bingo

59

(3)

Junk Mixer

62

(2)

The Week in Review

64

(2)

In-Place Scavenger Hunt

66

(3)

Collage Name Tags

69

(2)

Name-Tag Autographs

71

(2)

Things in Common

73

(2)

ID Cup

75

(2)

Number, Please

77

(3)

Expectations Autographs

80

(3)

Crazy Crossing

83

(2)

Short Activities for Waiting Times

85

(10)

Part C: Getting to Know One Another

Skittles Starters

95

(3)

The Doors of Our Lives

98

(3)

Blessing Banners

101

(2)

Suits Me!

103

(2)

I Am More Like ...

105

(3)

Pass the Basket

108

(6)

Dominoes Admissions

114

(3)

Shed a Little Light

117

(3)

Who's Your Neighbor?

120

(2)

Sharing Board Game

122

(2)

Four Corners

124

(4)

Four Sharing Formats

128

(7)

Part D: Building Teams

Blind Lineup

135

(3)

Human Sculptures

138

(3)

Over the Wall

141

(3)

Spaghetti Towers

144

(3)

Jesus Jingles

147

(3)

Yert Circle

150

(3)

Group Juggling

153

(3)

Look Very Closely

156

(2)

Stand in the Square

158

(3)

Connect the Dots

161

(3)

Swamp Crossing

164

(3)

Climbing the Walls

167

(3)

Five More Team Builders

170

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Part E: Affirming One Another

Bag of Goodies

175

(2)

Ballon Affirmations

177

(3)

First Corinthians Affirmations

180

(2)

I Give You This Gift

182

(2)

Compliment Contest

184

(2)

You're Respect-a-Ball!

186

(2)

Spin the Compliment

188

(2)

Acrostic Affirmations

190

(2)

A Pat on the Back

192

(2)

Alphabetical Affirmations

194

(2)

Appendix 1: Connections to the Discovering Program by HELP Strategy

196

(4)

Appendix 2: Connections to the Discovering Program by Discovering Course

200

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