JUDSON BAPTIST CHURCH
4900 Franklin Rd., Nashville, TN 37220
(615) 833-6600 ext. 306)
Friday, October 28th
5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Open to anyone wanting to minister, serve, lead, but dreads the thought of planning recreation or activities for the children or youth. This will be a fun night of learning hands on how to use recreation as a ministry tool.
If you’ve ever been afraid to volunteer in ministry because you don’t know what to do with youth or children this workshop will equip you with all you need to know and build your confidence in volunteering. Whether you are teaching a Bible Study, doing arts/crafts this workshop takes recreation activities from the classroom to the gym to outside. From low energy level activities to high energy, from no equipment to unusual equipment you’ll have a bag of tricks to help you in your ministry as a layperson to being on staff.
Topics:
- The Groups You Work With
- The Environment Around You
- Judson Policies
- Equipment Availability
- Learning Styles
- Planning
Who is this for? Anyone working with children or youth or wanting to work with children or youth. Anyone wanting to go on a mission trip. This is for adults as well as teenagers who would be leading any groups of children.
What is this? It is time to equip God’s people to be prepared and ready and able to use Recreation as a tool to reach and teach children and youth the Gospel. It is a recreation training workshop for those of you already in the classroom to those of you with no classroom or position at all. You will learn activities from quiet thinking to high energy loud and noisy recreation. This workshop will teach you how to introduce the game, how to facilitate, how long to play it, how to bring reflection and spiritual application into the game. Some of you lead Bible Study but you can still use recreation as a tool to drive home a life application of the scripture. Some of you are helpers and end up needing to kill 15 minutes with a room full of children. Use recreation a way to keep the group interested and engaged in the scripture you are involved with.
What will participants who attend get? An outline of introducing games to policies to how each group dynamics are made up so vastly different to the challenge, the rules, the reflection and spiritual application. You will receive 113 games broken down into categories such as Circle Games, Cooperative Games, Dramatic Games, High Activity Games, Large Group Games, Name Games, Nature Games, Parachute Games, Quick & Easy Games, Rainy Day or Indoor Games, Sports Oriented Games, Tag Games, & Water Games. There will be a goody bag for the Recreation Leaders that you will find handy in your leading recreation such as whistle, clipboard, and other useable items. From this workshop you’ll gain confidence in : communicating effectively, building trust, handling conflict/resolution as a Christian, having fun while teaching your group to have fun.
Sign up by e-mailing Jenny Hemmer at Jenny.Hemmer@judsonbaptist.com. You must sign up to reserve your spot.
No cost. A light dinner provided.
