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Confessions Of A Not So Supermodel
$9.99Add to cartTeenage girls are no strangers to feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. In Confessions of a Not-So-Super-Model readers will find camaraderie and encouragement as they join the faith journey that Brooklyn Lindsey traveled as a teenage beauty queen trying to find herself and follow God.
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Biblioteca De Ideas: Rompehiel – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartCrowd Breakers & Mixers Ideas Library– Break the ice and warm up your group at meetings, parties, studies, or any other youth group event with one of these 230 crowd breakers and mixers! Make it fun for kids to get acquainted! Lots of creative ways for a group of strangers or classmates to circulate and learn a lot about each other in a short amount of time. If you’re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club or camp, Crowd Breakers & Mixers is your storehouse of proven, youth group tested ideas.
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Teatro Obras Y Sketches – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cart80 sure-fire scripts and other onstage fun to illustrate your lessons and enliven your events! Just for Fun… Short stunts, funny skits, sight gags, easy prep we’ve got ’em all. If you have even one or two students who love hamming it up and making spectacles of themselves, you’ll find plenty of funny fodder here. Spontaneous melodramas… Fueled by groans, catcalls, cheers, and boos from your small or large audience. Drama is an ideal medium for grabbing people’s attention and priming them for a meeting, a talk, or a Bible study. Whether you’re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp Drama, Skits, & Sketches is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.
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Juegos Para Refrescar Tu Minis (Teacher’s Guide) – (Spanish) (Teacher’s Guide)
$13.99Add to cartA library of ideas Do you want games that are dynamic, that make you run or exercise until you fall exhausted? Here’s a place to find them. Do you need quiet games for a small or passive group? You will find those here as well. In Games To Refresh, you will find more than 400 recreational activities, both indoor as well as outdoor, that adolescents will love. Ball games: Twice the fun for a meeting of the church leadership, with only half the heat. Basketball and volleyball games: Everything about throws and baskets. They go crazy over these extravagant transformations of the sports. Indoor games for large groups: Reserve the church gymnasium or another large room for an evening to develop camaraderie. Parlor games: Great for parties or informal reunions. And much more!
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Games 3 : For Youth Groups
$22.99Add to cartThe newest volume in the best-selling Ideas Library is Games 3! A huge collection of over 400 of the newest, most fun, creative, youth-group-tested games ever imagined! Indoor games, outdoor games, water games, balloon games, wide games, living room games, large and small group games, all kinds of wacky games, rowdy games, silly games, quiet games, hilarious games, games with a point–brand new games to keep your group laughing, playing together, and building community at the same time. Perfect for youth leaders and recreation directors.
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Videos That Teach
$22.99Add to cartWith Videos That Teach you can use clips from 75 of the best recent movies on video — already collected and organized by topic and Bible reference, complete with start and stop times — to illustrate your lessons and launch provocative discussions among your students. Discussions that get kids talking about themselves and life, about God and the Bible. Browse the book to find the movie clip you like, or use one of the Quick Clip Locators (by topic of Bible reference) to quickly find the perfect reinforcement for your lesson. Or build an entire lesson from a clip–with each clip are summaries of the movie and the clip, start and stop times, Bible references, and discussion starting questions. And given the breadth of movies in Videos That Teach you’re almost guaranteed to find what you want for a topic to teach of a discussion to lead — Forrest Gump, The Spitfire Grill, Michael, City Slickers, Romeo and Juliet (1996), Grand Canyon, Mrs. Doubtfire, Naked Fun, Fried Green Tomatoes, Mr. Holland’s Opus. And lots more. Whether you’re a youth worker, Bible study or small-group leader, or Sunday school teacher, with Videos That Teach you’ll get your students thinking biblically instead of merely absorbing passively.
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Drama Skits And Sketches 2
$24.99Add to cartHere are 62 brand-new, youth-group-tested scripts you can use to introduce a topic with flair . . . To retell a Bible story with humor . . . To apply your lessons with poignancy. And they’re flexible, too — have fun with them as informal, no-prep reader’s theater, or rehearse them seriously for polished performances. – Scripture Sketches . . . Don’t despair if your students can’t tell the difference between Beelzebub and Barnabas — the Bible will be brought to life for them as they act out scriptural episodes, stories, and passages. (And on page 6 is an index to all this book’s scripts by Bible reference. Teaching the Prodigal Son? 1 Corinthians? Exodus? We’ve got a script for you!) – Contemporary Sketches . . . Off with the togas, on with the tank tops. Here are right-now, real-life scripts for everything from event announcements (that you can tailor to your own events) to dealing with emotional scars. Thanks to the topical index on page 7, you can zip right to the script that fits your meeting. – TV Takeoffs . . . In a TV world of talk shows and sitcoms, sketches based on TV shows always kick off lively discussions. Since all these scripts are also humorous, they’re great as openers at camps and conferences, too. – Monologues . . . Does your youth group’s dramatic talent reside in only one or two students? Or do you want to raise interest in starting a drama ministry? A monologue is your ticket — one-person scripts that require little or no costumes or props, yet can be as powerful as a three-act play. – To the Tune of CCM (And More) . . . Take the music many of your students listen to, and use it for dramatic purposes! These scripts each use a song by a Christian artist (or a song whose lyrics encourage or challenge Christians).
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Crowd Breakers And Mixers
$24.99Add to cart1. Gags & Skits
2. Mixers
3. Meeting-Opening Contests
4. Musical Crown Breakers
5. Quizzes & Word Games
6. Stunts
7. Whole-Group Participation
121 PagesAdditional Info
Welcome to the Ideas Library From Youth Specialites!
So what’s the Ideas Library? Simply the most complete collection of practical youth ministry programming ideas on this planet. The ideas books set the pace for 20th-century youth ministry. And now they’re updated for 21st century youth groups-reorganized from the inside out for busy youth workers who need the perfect idea, and need it now.* Games
* Games 2
* Creative Meetings, Bible Lessons, & Worship Ideas
* Holiday Ideas
* Crowd Breakers & Mixers
* Discussion & Lesson Starters
* Discussion & Lesson Starters 2
* Administration, Publicity, & Fundraising
* Drama, Skits, & Sketches
* Special Events
* Camps, Retreats, Missions, & Service Ideas -
Camps Retreats Missions And Service Ideas
$24.99Add to cartNearly 200 ideas for planning meaningful, memorable experiences for your kids! -Camps & Retreats . . . The drive up the mountain . . . The opening talk . . . The outdoor activities . . . The closing fireside — here’s a lodgeful of ideas for organizing successful camps and retreats. – Missions . . . Because even foreign mission work can start within our own borders, you’ll find dozens of ideas for helping overseas missionaries right here at home. A used-Bible drive, a scavenger hunt for missionary supplies — activities like these not only benefit missionaries, but also help your kids understand the personal, local aspects of mission work. – Service . . . Expose your students to others’ needs! Inside you’ll find ways to help children, the community at large, the elderly, the poor and homeless, shut-ins, and the sick and disabled Whether you’re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp — Camps, Retreats, Missions, & Service Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.
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Special Events
$24.99Add to cart1. Games And Sports Events
2. Scavenger Hunts
3. Treasure Hunts
4. Other Hunts
5. Theme Events
6. Food Events
7. Special Events With A Point
8. Outings & Overnighters
9. Races & Rallies
10. Other Parties & Special Events207 Pages
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More than 400 creative events for community building, outreach, and fun!* FOOD EVENTS: If there’s one thing kids know and appreciate, it’s food. Here’s everything from elegant feasts to slobfests galore.
* GAMES AND SPORTS EVENTS: You don’t have to be a jock to have fun playing these sporting events.
* OUTINGS AND OVERNIGHTERS: If you’re crazed enough to take a group of adolescents on the road-whether across town or across the state-here are plenty of trip ideas.
* RACES AND RALLIES: Your group have a need for speed? Whether it’s cars, bikes, buses, or toilets-if it can be raced, you’ll find an idea for it here.
* SPECIAL EVENTS WITH A PURPOSE: More than fun. These events carry significant spiritual, moral, or community value.And more-hunts and parties and theme events of all kinds!
Whether you’re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp-SPECIAL EVENTS is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.
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Holiday Ideas
$24.99Add to cartOver 200 festive ideas for cranking up celebrations for every holiday imaginable! – Christmas . . . Here’s your one-stop Christmas programming center. You’ll find everything you need for the merriest Advent and Christmas season ever — goofy games, crazy carols, outrageous outings, and silly skits to fill even the biggest Christmas stocking. And, of course, Christmasy meetings and lessons to help your kids focus on the real reason for the season. – Easter & Lent . . . Worship activities, reenactments, Bible lessons, meeting plans, and service projects, all designed to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Plus games, puzzles, craft projects, and scavenger hunt ideas — all tied to an Easter theme. – Valentine’s Day . . . Play a memorable February 14th with these icebreakers, games, songs, activities, and Bible lessons — all about love, whether human or divine. – Thanksgiving . . . Wait until you see the potful of ideas that youth workers from Cape Cod to all points west have cooked up for you — Thanksgiving craft projects, skits, outings, parties, service projects, and Bible lessons. Plus More . . . All kinds of party and meeting ideas for St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s, Halloween, Super Bowl Sunday, April Fool’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day celebrations, and graduation. Whether you’re a youth worker or a recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp — Holiday Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.
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Discussion And Lesson Starters 2
$24.99Add to cartNearly 150 more riveting, attention-getting openers that will pull your kids into animated discussion!
*A PRIMER ON LEADING DISCUSSION-Starting a discussion, and keeping it going…the importance of confidentiality…asking questions that get responses…and working with different personalities.
*35 CREATIVE WAYS TO START A DISCUSSION OR LESSON ON ANY TOPIC-Techniques general enough to fit just about any subject, but still quirky enough to attract adolescent attention.
*DISCUSSION & LESSON STARTERS, BY TOPIC-What subject are you teaching this week? First, look up your subject-advertising ethics, atheism, the Bible, church, death and dying, discipleship, evangelism, priorities, spiritual gifts, television…or 30 more topics, all arranged alphabetically. Then choose the opener that fits your purposes and your group.In fact, many of these are virtually complete lessons in themselves, with questions, activities, parables, object lessons-all designed to draw opinions, thoughts, and feelings from your students.
Whether you’re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp-Discussion & Lesson Starters 2 is your storehouse of proven, youth group tested ideas.
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Games 2
$24.99Add to cart166 Pages In 11 Sections
Additional Info
So what’s the Ideas Library? Simply the most complete collection of practical youth ministry programming ideas on this planet. The Ideas books set the pace for 20th – century youth ministry. And now they’re updated for 21st century youth groups – reorganized from the inside out for busy youth workers who need the perfect idea, and need it now.Whether you’re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp – GAMES 2 is brimming with notoriously wild, creative, and youth-group tested games!
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Discussion And Lesson Starters
$24.99Add to cartContents
159 Pages In 4 Parts
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More than 200 proven openers, questions, and activities that get students involved in your lessons!*A Primer On Leading Discussions-starting a discussion, and keeping it going…the importance of confidentiality…asking questions that get responses…and working with different personalities.
*35 creative ways to start a discussion or lesson on any topic—techniques general enough to fit just about any subject, but still quirky enough to attract adolescent attention.
*Discussion & lesson starters, by topic-what subject are you teaching this week? First, look up your subject-apologetics, attitude, dating, disabilities, family, the will of God…and more than 30 topics, all arranged alphabetically. Then choose the opener that fits your purposes and your group.In fact many of these openers are virtually complete lessons in themselves, with questions, activities, parables, object lesson-all designed to draw opinions, thoughts, and feelings from your students.
Whether you’re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp—Discussion & Lesson Starters is your storehouse of proven, youth group tested ideas.