FFS 378: EVENT IDEA: Family Game Night (with Chris Santos)
FourFiveSix.org: Great Ideas for your Preteen Ministry
Release Date: 05/06/2020
FourFiveSix.org: Great Ideas for your Preteen Ministry
Sean talks once again with Michael Pritchard, creator of . Michael talks about a free tool that you can use to equip parents to help THEM engage preteens in Bible reading!
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info_outline FFS442: DISCIPLESHIP IDEA: "More"FourFiveSix.org: Great Ideas for your Preteen Ministry
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info_outlineToday on the podcast, Sean speaks with Pastor Chris Santos about Family Game Night: Quarantine Edition event.
This was a very easy event to put together, and an event that can be done repeatedly.
Using Zoom and the Kahoot App, Sean and Chris facilitated the night which included 3 games for the families. Families earned additional points right off the bat if they came to the meeting matching somehow. For the first game they used the trivia game from DYM, only using 10 of the 20 questions. This was played with the whole group together.
After playing the DYM trivia game the families were split into groups, and then sent to a breakout room with a category assigned to them and for a minute and a half they determined based on that category what was in common between the families. A new category was sent to them every minute and a half (restaurants you frequent, movies your family enjoys, places you traveled outside the state).
The final game, everyone came back together, and they played majority rules. For this game Sean would give a category and everyone would message Sean with their families answer. Whatever answer was the most popular those groups would earn points. As a prize for the family with the most points at the end, the ministry sent them a pizza party.
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