Youth ministry halloween games

We started this event 4 years ago and now the highschool and all area churches have joined the event!! What a witness to the community and the kids still end up getting loads of candy for their hard efforts! That night have drivers drive around collecting the canned goods from the kids trick or canning! What a wonderful gift to give to your local food bank! I think Jesus weeps when he sees his children carlessly following 'the celebration of Holloween'or trying to change it to 'christian' when it only represents the Devil.

You should be teaching the youth what Halloween is all about and that it is not just some dress up party. It is really about people doing evil things and you are only enabling people to do it, if you are out there supporting it.

Comments Included Lighten up people! Plus, I dare someone to try the "Prayer Session" idea You could celebrate Christmas or Easter and make it all about yourself and screw it up. And they did not worship Satan, you have the druids of the old Celtic faith confused with modern satanists. You might as well not celebrat christmas because it falls near the winter solstice.

Halloween has a much deeper, and in some ways dark history, that has given birth to one of the most beloved holidays in the world. Celts believed that this end of the year time marked the time in which the barrier between the living and the dead became thin.

On October 31st the spirits would come back from the dead and create havoc by damaging the crops with frost and causing a multitude of other troubles. This day was also known as All Hallows Eve. Who Wrote It? Thanksgiving Edition. See if your students can guess who is thankful for what! Claw Machine. Extreme Head Counting. Bobble Heads. Look Out! Fancy Egg. Shake It Out. Three Spree. Bring Me A Unstand If Red vs Blue. The perfect scoreboard for head-to-head competitions!

Extreme Potato Counting. Freeze Dance. Easy-to-use stopwatch that works great for timed games. Higher Lower. Guess the number before the time runs out! Crabby Face. Donut Drop. Catch the Kiwi. Santa Drop. Extreme Gift Counting. Turkey Pop. Halloween Three of a Kind.

What's in the Box!? Pumpkin Drop. Cupcake Celebrate. Summer Three of a Kind. Applause Meter. Arms and Legs. Rock Paper Scissors. Shifty Dot. Freeze Frame. Three of a Kind - Valentine's Edition.

Follow the Heart. Flip That Coin. Stop the Clock - 3 Thumbs Up. Can you students find 3 usb keys before time runs out??? Name in a Box.

Stage Gauge. Santa Slots. Tell us which ones you liked the most. Leave a comment below. Image: Shutterstock. The following two tabs change content below. Debolina Raja came into the writing world while she was playing around with words and participating in various literary events. Fear is a very real and powerful emotion. And it can cause us to do some pretty crazy things, too. Maybe it is your future. Maybe it is what others think about you.

Many people fear death or someone you love dying. Maybe it is that someone will find out something that you are ashamed of. Maybe you are afraid of love or disappointing someone. How did it make you feel to know that you are not the only one who gets afraid or fears certain things? Give students a few minutes to share more fears. Some to add might be: being alone, what others think of you, not having enough food.

Now this list of what we fear would also change depending on where we are in life or what type of community we live in. There are some places in the world today where people worry about violence or what they will eat.