TBC Youth Group

Whoops. David was supposed to put together a schedule, but his week was… well, it wasn’t conducive to taking time out for putting together schedules. So he resorted to another Games Night. It didn’t go too badly, though.

Funnily enough, the first question that was asked was if we could play I Never again. So apparently the game really did go well the week before!

But we didn’t. Instead, we played Mafia, which the kids normally enjoy a lot—when they’re willing to play properly. We had mixed results, this time; a lot of kids didn’t want to close their eyes, and some didn’t get the concept. By the end, though, they were trying to stretch it out—they knew who the mafia was, and were purposely trying not to eliminate him—so they must have enjoyed it.

After this, we did our devotions. John had had some further thoughts about devotions, and had come up with an idea to tweak our suggestion: instead of breaking up, initially, he would do the devotion with everyone, and then we would break out into our groups to discuss the devotion. And it worked pretty well, we thought. As we’d predicted, the kids were more willing to discuss things when they were in smaller groups, and, to our delight, they all seemed to grasp the basic facts of the devotion. (That’s no small task, when you’re doing a devotion for a group as diverse as ours.)

After the discussions, we determined that YMAD was done, and let the boys go downstairs for basketball. (They would be more than happy to play nothing but basketball all night long, if we let them.) The girls stayed upstairs, and basically entertained themselves.