Christian youth camp cat and mouse

Christian Youth Camp -
Cat and Mouse
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Description
One of the biggest challenges right now is the “Back to School” blues.
Summer is over and the reality of school has set back in again.
Everyone’s back to pursuing something. Popularity, grades, sports,
maybe even aspiring to music careers on YouTube, everyone faces the
pressure to perform.

This game is great to blow off some steam and burn off a little energy
in the youth group. As typical in any game of tag, it is a game of
pursuit. This lends itself to a discussion of the things we pursue in life
and what the Bible says we should pursue.

What to Do
1. Choose someone to be the “cat” and another person to be
the “mouse” then ask the rest of the youth to hold hands
and form a circle around the “mouse”.
2. Have every two persons in the circle to drop hands so that
they are in pairs. These partners must continue holding
hands and cannot let go.
3. The cat can cut through the circle in between pairs, but the
mouse must run around the outside of the circle.

4. The objective is for the cat to tag the mouse, but there is a small twist
that balances out the cat’s ability to cut through the circle. The mouse
can grab any free hand (or arm) of the partners forming the circle.
(The partners will be holding hands or locking arms, but the outside
arm of each person will be free.) If the mouse grabs one of these
outside arms/ hands, the mouse forms a new partner with the person
the mouse has attached to, and the person who was not grabbed now
becomes the new mouse.

5. If the cat manages to tag the mouse, they reverse roles
and the cat becomes the mouse and the mouse becomes
the cat.
6. This game can usually go on for quite a while before the
youth become bored. Usually I will set a time limit and a
forfeit for the person who is the cat when the time is up.

Variations
• For Christmas you could have the Grinch chasing the Puppy, or
Herod Chasing Baby Jesus.
• For Thanksgiving have the Farmer Chasing the Turkey.
• For Easter you could have the Pharisees Chasing the Disciples.
• For a lesson on King David, you could have Saul chasing David.
• For a lesson on Moses, Have Pharaoh Chasing Moses.
• There are a lot of places in the Old Testament where People are
being pursued.

Take It to the Next Level
Take it Spiritual
In life, we may sometimes be pursued and other times we may be
doing the pursuing. What are some things that we pursue in life?
Here are some of the things the Bible says we should pursue.
• Love – 1 Corinthians 14:1 (NAS)
• Peace -1 Peter 3:11 (ASV NAS RSV NIV); Psalms 34:14 (KJV ASV
NAS RSV NIV)

• Righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness – 1 Timothy
6:11 (NAS NIV)
• Righteousness, faith, love, and peace – 2 Timothy 2:22 (NAS NIV)
• Peace, Holiness – Hebrews 12:14 (NAS)
• Prize – Philippians 3:12-14
• Righteousness – Proverbs 15:9 (NAS RSV NIV); Romans 9:30-32 (NAS
RSV NIV); Isaiah 51:1 (NAS RSV NIV)
• Peace, Things that build others up – Romans 14:19 (NAS RSV)
• To Know God – Hosea 6:3 (NKJV)

As you look over the things the Bible says to pursue, you’ll
see they fall into the same two areas of the great
commandment – To love the Lord your God with all your
heart soul mind and strength, and to Love your neighbor as
yourself – A right relationship with God and a right
relationship with others.

Take it Personal
• Which of these do people find difficult to pursue?
• What stops people from pursuing these things of God?
• When you think about your relationship with God – faith,
endurance, righteousness, piety and holiness, how do you think
you measure up?
• What are you currently pursuing?
• How can you direct that pursuit in a way that is honoring to God?
• In what areas does your life – thoughts, attitudes, actions – need
improvement?

Closing
• What is one thing you can pursue this week in your
relationship with God?
• What is one thing you can pursue this week in your
relationship with others?

Scripture References
“Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you
may prophesy.”
1 Corinthians 14:1 (NASB)

“They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and
pursue it.”
1 Peter 3:11 (NIV)
“But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.”
1 Timothy 6:11 (NIV)

“Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love
and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure
heart.”
2 Timothy 2:22
“Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no
one will see the Lord.”
Hebrews 12:14 (NASB)

“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already
arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which
Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not
consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do:
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I
press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has
called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:12-14 (NIV)

“What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue
righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of
righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because
they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They
stumbled over the stumbling stone.”
Romans 9:30-32 (NIV)

“So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building
up of one another.”
Romans 14:19 (NASB)
“Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going
forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain,
Like the latter and former rain to the earth.”
Hosea 6:3 (NKJV)

Bible Studies based on the book of Jonah
Only. This youth camp curriculum was
designed to teach the basic truths
of obedience in addition to evangelism in the
context of a Biblical character. The advantage
of going through a book and looking at one
man's story is that we see not only the
teaching but the example. It becomes much
more real!
Camp Curriculum - Whale of a Tale
-> Tell me about “Whale of a Tale”
www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/order5.html

Creative Youth Ideas
Camp Bible Study Series
“Who Do You Say that I AM?”
www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/whodoyousay.html
-> Tell me about “Who Do You Say that I AM?”
Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do others
say that I am?" It was easy to answer
because it required no conviction, no
commitment, and no risk. But then he
follows that question with another, "Who
do YOU say that I am?"

Live the Fruitful, Abundant Life
Jesus Promised. Great for youth camps or
weekly Youth Bible Study. There are 7
Primary Bible study Sessions in the series.
www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/fruitofthespirit.html
-> Tell me about “Fruit Of the Spirit”
Creative Youth Ideas
Youth Camp Bible Study Series
“Fruit Of the Spirit”

"The Great Adventure" is western
themed Bible study series loosely based
around the song of the same name by
Steven Curtis Chapman. It was initially
written for a large Texas Church to use for
their Summer Youth Camp but has since
then proven popular around the world.
Camp Curriculum - The Great Adventure
www.creativeyouthideas.com/resources/order12.html
-> Tell me about “The Great Adventure”

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