TBC Youth Group

This was a pretty typical Games Night—unfortunately, because our “typical” Game Nights are unstructured, unplanned, and chaotic.

There were a number of kids already in the church, when the leaders got there at 7:00, and they were playing dominoes and Connect Four. We let them continue on with these games for a while.

David then led the devotion, since John wasn’t there. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as smooth as John’s devotions usually are. Also, there wasn’t an opportunity to break into groups after, for discussion. (There was a bit of discussion, with the whole group, on whether you have to be absolutely perfect in order to get into heaven. (Hint: Yes, you do. Which is why it’s impossible for you to get into heaven on your own, which is why you need Jesus to pay for your sins, allowing God to regard you as if you were perfect.))

After the devotions, we played a game where we split the kids into two teams, gave them some old scrap paper, and had them make paper airplanes. For a few minutes, they had to throw the airplanes at each other, and at the end, whichever team had the most planes on their side lost. This made a big mess, which leads us to our next game.

There was some discussion as to whether we should play Boneyard, to finish the night, or if the boys would play basketball. So David had everyone pick up the paper from the floor, and it would be a contest: Anyone who wanted to play boneyard would put their paper in a pile, and anyone who wanted to play basketball would put their paper in a pile, and whoever won, that’s what we’d play. The basketball players won.

So the basketball folks went downstairs to play ball, and a number of others stayed upstairs, where we played

• Sorry
• Connect Four
• Jenga

Incidentally, while playing Jenga, we built a tower that must have set some kind of record.


Surely nobody else could possibly have had a Jenga tower that high before! (We’re just kidding—if there are any Jenga world champions reading this, please don’t leave comments to correct us.)