Camps, Retreats, Missions, & Service Ideas for Youth Groups [Paperback]

Youth Specialties (Author)

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Series: Ideas Library, The | Publication Date: September 1, 1997

Nearly 200 ideas for planning meaningful, memorable experiences for your kids! -Camps and 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, and Service Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.

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Nearly 200 ideas for planning meaningful, memorable experiences for your kids. From the leaders in youth ministry, Youth Specialties, comes the most complete library of programming resources on this planet

It led the way for 20th century youth ministry programming. Now the dynamic, updated Ideas Library sets the pace for 21st century youth groups. Totally redesigned and restructured from the inside out, this groundbreaking 11-volume library gives youth leaders

- the most off-the-wall games and crowd breakers
- the most creative and unchurchy Bible lessons
- the most attention-getting publicity campaigns
- a huge collection of laugh-till-you-cry skits and dramas that illustrate the Bible's principles in action today
- special events of every kind
- holiday ideas for everything from Christmas and Easter to the Super Bowl and Groundhog Day

Convenient, topical organization makes it easy to find the right idea for the right occasion, from action-packed games to dynamite camps and retreats. The Ideas Library is the most complete collection of youth ministry programming ideas on earth! All brought to you by Youth Specialties--the ministry whose heartbeat is to help youth leaders raise up young adults strong in the faith.

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Nearly 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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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan/Youth Specialties (September 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310220327
• ISBN-13: 978-0310220329
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #794,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Well-developed ideas ... wrong audience, perhaps?, July 6, 2007

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John B. Gardner (Boones Mill, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Camps, Retreats, Missions, & Service Ideas for Youth Groups (Paperback)

This book presents a series of themed retreats for youth groups. Each retreat has a lot of ideas for activities and games as well as a general outline of each retreat. Every activity idea is thoroughly tied in to the retreat theme. The retreats and their constituent activities are well-developed and fully fleshed out, and this is the main strength of the book. However, the ideas (and perhaps the authors) assume a youth group that is fully invested and fully committed. New youth groups, or groups struggling with Christian identity, or groups that would rather focus on mission--all these might have trouble buying into the various themes. Some of the activities seem, well, a little hokey--even for younger groups. Some of the other ideas are very good. In the end, there was not much originality here, just some very well-fleshed-out retreat plans. If you really want some good ideas for a youth retreat, get your youth together and ask them to help you plan it!

This book attempts to provide youth leaders with a series of retreat ideas, complete with component activities that teach the theme. In this respect, the authors succeed. However, anyone attempting to actually use the retreats as written will find themselves having to think up major alterations on the fly. Imposing packaged structure on a youth group works about as well as running a marathon with shoes you've never tried on. It just doesn't fit.

4.0 out of 5 stars Camp Idea books, February 7, 2010

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Debra Bosch - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Camps, Retreats, Missions, & Service Ideas for Youth Groups (Paperback)

This book I actually bought for my daughter who will be working in a leadership position at a Christian camp this summer. I am hopeful that it will provide some useful information for her to better fullfill her job.