Youth First Aids

Last week we had a very successful Dodgeball Night for our youth. It was a fun night of bonding and just letting loose and getting to know one another. Everyone dressed up in their craziest dodgeball outfits – some of the small groups encouraged different themes (neon colors, guys in pink shirts, sunglasses, tie dye… etc).

We rented out the gym of a local school and was fortunate enough to get to come by in the morning during school hours and hand out left over chocolates from our previous M&M Fundraiser to the students, with stickers on them inviting them to come to the dodgeball tournament that night. It was great getting some of the youth from our group to actually hand the chocolates out and invite their classmates themselves.

During the event, we had one of our youth leaders assigned as our DJ (lots of dancing going on) – this just added to the fun ambiance of the night). We also had two of our leaders assigned as our referees (as you might suspect, a lot of cheating goes on ) and one of the Pastors as an emcee to announce which team was playing against who, etc. Since there were a lot on our group, we split them off into teams (at least one person from each grade were in each group) and asked them to come up with a group name. Each group played until we had a winner. We had some breaks in between games – we did silly things like the chicken dance… this is good to get some of those who aren’t playing involved. For those who didn’t want to get involved, one of our leaders made signs and bought pom poms from the dollar store and they were our cheerleaders for the night.

At the end of the night, before the “finals”, we had a short word from one of the youth pastors.

Definitely a fun night!

Note: The week before the event, it would be good to go over proper attire for both guys and girls. Also, make sure you have your set of rules established for the game ahead of time and that this is announced to both your leaders and your youth before the game. If you need instructions on how to play dodgeball, click HERE.