This document outlines activities and curricula for a Christian youth camp, including:
1) An activity called "Shared Vision" that teaches about the importance of shared goals and understanding through a confusing word-pair exercise.
2) Several Bible study series for camp including "Whale of a Tale" based on the book of Jonah, "Who Do You Say that I AM?" focusing on Jesus, and "Fruit of the Spirit" about living according to God's spirit.
3) A western-themed series called "The Great Adventure" loosely based on a Steven Curtis Chapman song.
Which side are you on? Do you know where you stand? Find out in this Christmas icebreaker where the youth move back and forth to opposite sides of the room depending on their preference of the two choices you call out.
Presenters:
Jessica Barnes, Smashing Ideas, Creative Director
Anna Ho, Smashing Ideas, Senior Strategiest
Teaching complex behavioral techniques through mobile applications has been around for years, yet few make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of the end-users. The creative and strategic minds behind Mindful PowersTM - a kid-first, holistic approach to building social-emotional learning through the power of play - will walk you through the intricate details of taking skills-based methodologies, such as Mindfulness and Acceptance Commitment Therapy, and the practical application of them in an inclusive and accessible digital experience that helps children build healthier relationships with life, stress, and anxiety.
Nonprofits. No money? No worries. Read through this presentation given to the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management and learn to get your nonprofit noticed!!!
Next-Level Collaboration: the Future of Content and Design | GIANT CONF 2015Rebekah Baggs
Imagine a future where siloed departments and legacy workflows don’t stand in our way. Today’s content is complex, interconnected, and needs to be ready for devices we haven’t even dreamed of yet. Tomorrow isn’t going to get any simpler. Successful outcomes demand a new kind of collaboration.
For the past two years, Rebekah has studied how successful teams collaborate and has helped transform the way her team works and produces together. In this session, you’ll hear what she’s learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team and workflow, too.
In this talk, we discussed:
- What it takes to make effective collaboration possible
- How content strategists play a key role in creating the cross-discipline teams of tomorrow
- Practical techniques you can use to bridge silos, increase productivity, and deliver better project outcomes for everyone
Here you can find 21 ways to boost your event or conference. Cyriel has a lot of experience as Master of Interaction and loves to share his knowledge and experience in some very practical ways to inspire, engage and wake up your audience. Enjoy!
Sure-fire, No-Fail, Guaranteed Way to Reach Any Goal! You may work hard, but are you sabotaging your hard work with thinking the wrong thoughts? Learn how your thoughts affect the outcome of your hard work ethic. Learn how to use laws of the Universe that are in play all the time and are either working for you or against you.
Christian Youth Camp - Knock Down, or Build UpKen Sapp
In all our relationships the things we do can say can either build up or tear down. This wacky youth group game presents the same choice to teams of youth.
Are you thinking of self-publishing a book? Do you want to be successful as a self-publisher? Would you like to self-publish a bestselling book? If you answer yes to any of these questions, here are five keys to self-publishing success.
How to facilitate an ADHD retreat for adults - an overview with Top Ten Secrets to a Successful ADHD retreat. Emphasis is on women but info is equally applicable to men and couples retreats
Which side are you on? Do you know where you stand? Find out in this Christmas icebreaker where the youth move back and forth to opposite sides of the room depending on their preference of the two choices you call out.
Presenters:
Jessica Barnes, Smashing Ideas, Creative Director
Anna Ho, Smashing Ideas, Senior Strategiest
Teaching complex behavioral techniques through mobile applications has been around for years, yet few make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of the end-users. The creative and strategic minds behind Mindful PowersTM - a kid-first, holistic approach to building social-emotional learning through the power of play - will walk you through the intricate details of taking skills-based methodologies, such as Mindfulness and Acceptance Commitment Therapy, and the practical application of them in an inclusive and accessible digital experience that helps children build healthier relationships with life, stress, and anxiety.
Nonprofits. No money? No worries. Read through this presentation given to the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management and learn to get your nonprofit noticed!!!
Next-Level Collaboration: the Future of Content and Design | GIANT CONF 2015Rebekah Baggs
Imagine a future where siloed departments and legacy workflows don’t stand in our way. Today’s content is complex, interconnected, and needs to be ready for devices we haven’t even dreamed of yet. Tomorrow isn’t going to get any simpler. Successful outcomes demand a new kind of collaboration.
For the past two years, Rebekah has studied how successful teams collaborate and has helped transform the way her team works and produces together. In this session, you’ll hear what she’s learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team and workflow, too.
In this talk, we discussed:
- What it takes to make effective collaboration possible
- How content strategists play a key role in creating the cross-discipline teams of tomorrow
- Practical techniques you can use to bridge silos, increase productivity, and deliver better project outcomes for everyone
Here you can find 21 ways to boost your event or conference. Cyriel has a lot of experience as Master of Interaction and loves to share his knowledge and experience in some very practical ways to inspire, engage and wake up your audience. Enjoy!
Sure-fire, No-Fail, Guaranteed Way to Reach Any Goal! You may work hard, but are you sabotaging your hard work with thinking the wrong thoughts? Learn how your thoughts affect the outcome of your hard work ethic. Learn how to use laws of the Universe that are in play all the time and are either working for you or against you.
Christian Youth Camp - Knock Down, or Build UpKen Sapp
In all our relationships the things we do can say can either build up or tear down. This wacky youth group game presents the same choice to teams of youth.
Are you thinking of self-publishing a book? Do you want to be successful as a self-publisher? Would you like to self-publish a bestselling book? If you answer yes to any of these questions, here are five keys to self-publishing success.
How to facilitate an ADHD retreat for adults - an overview with Top Ten Secrets to a Successful ADHD retreat. Emphasis is on women but info is equally applicable to men and couples retreats
Child sexual abuse has become a national nuisance. Though this disease hasn’t cropped up lately, but it sure has been caught, punished, and ridiculed, and rightly so. It is one thing to scorn and penalise the offenders, but wouldn’t it be good to prevent such occurrences? Here are some snapshots to educate your little angels about GOOD TOUCH and BAD TOUCH. If children are made aware, they definitely can seek help immediately in dire circumstances.
I aim to empower the local indigenous and non Indigenous adolescent girls in my country and their community members through “Campaign for Menstrual Hygiene " program so that the adolescent girls can live healthier lives and have more equal chances to reach their life potential. Women empowerment is an important subject for the Indigenous Minority communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Often lack of knowledge in Menstruation is causing or acting as an obstacle in women empowerment such as dropping out from schools because they are ashamed of speaking out about their abdominal pain and lack of access to hygiene products and water during their menstruation period. Through this program I and my team aim to promote awareness on menstruation, hygiene, sanitation ,sexual and reproductive health issues among adolescents girls through different educational sessions so that a positive attitude will come regarding sexual and reproductive health among them. Further, they will be able to express their difficulties to health workers and family, friends during the adolescent period without any hesitation because these issues are often culturally sensitive.
Good touch bad touch(safe and unsafe touch)Mitashi Pawar
This presentation will help you educate students about the various kinds of touch they get from people around them and how to differentiate between them.
As today our children are coming in contact with more and more strangers and that too when they are away from their parents and family, like in daycare, school buses, at creches or even alone at home with a maid. increasingly these kids need to be made aware of what is good touch that they say yes to and what is bad touch that they can say no to and talk to their parents about.
Gary Vaynerchuk talks about Content & Social MediaKen Sapp
Great talk and Q&A from Gary Vaynerchuk at National Achiever's Congress 2019 in Singapore... Lots of takeaways but these are powerful: "Eliminate friction between your message and your customer" and "The INTENT of content is the VARIABLE of Success." So does your message create friction? What is the intent of your content? Are you real and adding value or is your content just an "ask" wrapped in content?
Thanksgiving Party Activity - Looking BackKen Sapp
Thanksgiving is an American Holiday where people set aside a day to remember what God has done for them over the past one year and praise Him and give Him thanks for the works He has done in their lives. This game plays on the idea of looking forward yet being able to recognize and picture what is behind. It serves as a metaphor for us, also looking forward to the future, but taking some time to picture and recognize what God has done in the past."
Although gummy bears were invented by German Candy maker Hans Reigel in 1922, the gummy worm is a relatively recent concept. The Gummy bear wasn’t shipped to America until around 1981 and then an American candy company extended the idea to gummy worms to give kids something fun to eat and to shock their parents. Gummy worms are one of the most popular gummy candies around. Use these games with gummy worms as an object lesson to talk about Jesus’ call to his disciples to become fishers of men.
Even if you don’t want to be involved with Halloween, you’ll want to grab at least one of those plastic or paper Halloween skeletons for this object lesson / game.
Halloween Party Activity - Pumpkin PicassoKen Sapp
How well can you draw the Halloween Jack-o-Lantern? Here is a great youth game idea for the Halloween season. You can use it to bring a fresh spiritual meaning to the holiday and allow your youth to apply it to seeking God’s plan and direction for their lives. You could even relate it to a talk about not conforming to the patterns of the world. Be creative and have a great week! And for those completely adverse to anything associated with Halloween, see the alternative variation under the “preparation” section.
Halloween Party Activity - Like a Halloween Pumpkin
Christian youth camp shared vision
1. Christian Youth Camp
- Shared Vision
Use this exercise to illustrate the
importance of a shared vision.
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2. Group Size: any number
Time: 5 minutes.
Applications: Vision, Goals, Objectives.
Materials
Pencil or Pen and sheet of paper for each
participant
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3. Activity
Say “You are going to now be given a test. Your
performance on this test will determine your future in this
organization. I am going to give you a pair of words or
phrases and you are to choose the correct answer from
each pair and write it down.”
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4. Read each set of choices a couple of times.
Answer any questions by simply saying “Write down the
correct answer.”
1. Red or green
2. Purple or blue
3. Horizontal or Vertical
4. Stars or planets
5. 5 or 50
6. Up in the Air or Down on the ground
7. Metal or cloth
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5. After you have finished reading the various choices,
select a couple of participants and ask them read their
answers out. Let them know how many they have
gotten correct.
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6. Debrief
• Ask “How did you feel about this performance test?”
(frustrated, confused, didn’t make sense, not enough
information, unfair)
• Ask if anybody knows the correct answers?
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7. (The correct answers will relate to the American Flag –
Change the choices based on your own national flag)
Invite the participants to imagine the national flag.
Quickly run through the choices again – with the whole
group responding out loud.
DEBRIEF
What does this activity mean to you?
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8. KEY CONCEPT: A SHARED VISION
• We tend to get frustrated when we don’t have the complete
picture.
• Our choices are easy when everyone shares the same vision.
• We need to share the vision, the goal, the big picture with
people when we give them tasks so that they can make the
right choices when decisions arise.
• We can make the right choices by seeing which options align
with the vision.
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9. Business Application:
• Do you delegate tasks without sharing the vision
of what this task will accomplish?
• How do your gifts, talents, skills and abilities
contribute the big picture in your company?
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10. Personal Application:
• Do you have a dream, a goal for your life that guides
your important decisions?
• Are your decisions decided by the whim of the moment
or do they bring you closer to your dream?
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11. Spiritual Application:
• What is your place in this world?
• Do you know the Creator’s plan for your
life?
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12. Relationships Application:
• Do you have problems with communication because
you lack a shared vision?
• Do you make decisions in relationships based on your
vision of what others need and want? How would
this change the decisions you make?
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13. 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”
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14. Creative Youth Ideas
Camp Bible Study Series
“Who Do You Say that I AM?”
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-> 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?"
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15. 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.
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-> Tell me about “Fruit Of the Spirit”
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“Fruit Of the Spirit”
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16. "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
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-> Tell me about “The Great Adventure”
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