We want to take another week to highlight a resource that comes to you from our brand new TRAINING TOOLS page where we give you totally free training for yourself and your volunteer leaders. This week’s freebie is about student leadership.

This 'ready-made' seminar will help you equip your adult leaders to build a student leadership team within your ministry, helping students develop their own faith and begin to impact others with the Gospel of Jesus.

Hopefully, everyone survived Halloween, and now we are all staring down the Thanksgiving season. If you need an idea to reach some extra/other students in your area, this FUN EVENT (if publicized correctly) is sure to bring them out this Thanksgiving.

Frozen Turkey Olympics is exactly what it sounds like! Young people gather the biggest team they can find to compete in “Olympic-STYLE-Events,” though no real athletic skills are required. Everything from “Turkey Shot Put” to “Turkey Bowling” is covered in this event. This FUN EVENT will have your kids saying, “We Came. We Thawed. We Conquered.”  

#1: Shot Put Turkey – You’ll need one contestant from each team to compete in this portion of the Olympics. The rules of Shot Put Turkey are exactly like those of regular shot put. Just have each team’s contestant step to the line holding a turkey and give it a….

Yeah, the plot line has been done to death, and it does star Zac Efron, but 17 Again was still a pretty good movie. What’s better is the flick actually contains a scene that you can use to motivate your students in various areas of their faith. Like all of our MOVIE CLIP DISCUSSIONS, this one has everything you need to host a biblical meeting with your teenagers.

Main Point: Being bold and taking a stand for what we believe in can have a huge impact on those around us.

The Movie Clip: “It’s called making love, isn’t it?”
When Mike O’Donnell’s life turns upside down because of his poor decisions regarding family, he gets a chance to become 17 Again, and assumes the new name Mark. Now, he’s a father trapped inside his 17-year old body. It’s from this vantage point of “dad” that he tries to rebuild his family. I want you to listen to an impactful conversation he had with the teenagers in his health class one day. As he talks about sex, I want you….