Winter Weekend - MadLibs

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Winter Weekends are in full force and we love hearing stories about the times that you are spending with your friends on different YL weekends! It’s a full schedule, without a lot of sleep, but you guys are jumping in with your friends and giving them opportunities to hear about Jesus and be in community! Thank you!

As we creatively try to think about how to best help our friends engage all of their senses in the gospel proclamation, check out this great idea that was used by an area during the fifteen minutes of silence.

We made MadLibs type sheets that we had each of our friends fill out (some with a leader/buddy if they needed help). We chose the questions and gave them space to write or draw their answers. In the future, we’d make them more specific to the talks and the main points that the speaker is touching on.

Having these really helped focus our cabin time discussion because when we asked questions, they had already come up with their answers and had them in front of them! It kept us away from favorite songs, dead cats, grandparents and football and more focused on Jesus. We gave everyone the freedom to not use the paper during their time, but everyone chose it.

The two photos below represent what we did…
#1- we used this for our first cabin time





#2- we had them do this in advance so that when we had club on the Monday after returning they could share about their time at camp




What fun and creative things are you doing with your friends? We’d love to know and we’d love to share!

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