If you are a youth leader and wish to organize night out for your church youth group, you can have different ideas to choose from depending on your theme.
For me, as a hobbyist of stargazing I usually involved and teach youth to star gazing. I teach them where to find different constellations using a star map. I have found this relaxing especially if the weather is fine and the sky is clear at night where you can only see the stars twinkling.
Why do this? You may found it tedious at first if you have no idea what stargazing is all about. But once you get to know more about the stars and especially the constellation where our Creator will come back. You will also enjoy watching and counting the shooting stars. Not only that, you will get to know more of your youth members if you involved yourself in the activity and teach them one by one to point where is the constellation like Scorpio and other stars.
In order for this idea to be challenging, asked your youth group to list the constellations and stars they have found. The group that has the most listing of the constellations wins, and also asks them to locate for themselves if they really have found it.
Second best option for nightly group activities is a social night. What you can do here is gather some ideas for games where everyone can participate. As a youth leader, you need to have separate games for teen agers and the young adult or a mixture of parlor games.
You can have a series of parlor games in the lawn premises or if there is not enough space for you to play. Try indoor games. The indoor games may vary if you want to be physically active or just a mind game.
If you would just play mind game, then do some group dynamics. You can have a group debate. To do this, simply divide the youth into groups depending on the topic that will be discussed. And as a youth leader, you will act as the moderator.
Just be careful with the words that you will use as a moderator, because you are the neutralizer.
If these activities sounds boring to you, try a nightly serenade, visiting your long lost friends or even your enemies and try to reunite with them. Again you involved your youth groups, and try to assign one person who will contact the home that you will visit.
After you made the protocol, get ready with your favorite songs and your gifts for the person you will visit. Please take note that gifts and snacks are not necessary but it will be helpful if you have one.
That is not all, for your night theme ideas, try to have a small group discussion which focuses on the Bible topics. You can do this by choosing a chapter from the books of the Bible and in that chapter, every time you have a gathering, choose only ten verses to be read silently by each member and give five to ten minutes for reflection.
Then, share to everybody what lessons have you learned. There are lots of nightly theme ideas depending on your activity, again the simple. Those are just suggestions and for me while doing missionary work, those methods are pretty well tested and proven to help hone the skills of the youth mentally, physically, socially and spiritually.
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