Youth Camp Christian - Cat and Mouse

Youth Camp
Christian - 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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