Crazy Things I Did as a Youth Pastor – part 2

26 posted on August 26, 2008
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One of the events I put together when I was a Youth Pastor was a Western night. It was a blast. We even brought in a real square dance caller and had a good old-fashioned square dance (although many found out square dancing was a whole lot trickier than the hip-hop stuff they did).

In keeping with the Western theme of the night we had several “Western” style games. They ate baked beans in the old west, right? Why not bob for tiny candy bars in a bowl of baked beans! You may notice that many of the games I organized gave the kids opportunities to do gross things in front of a large group of people to embarrass themselves and impress their friends (one of the secrets of great youth group games).

Bobbing for Candy Bars in Baked Beans
We filled the bowl full of baked beans and mixed in around 15 of those little bite-sized candy bars. Ready, set, go!

We made sure to cover the table and their clothes with plastic garbage bags because it does get a little messy.

They couldn’t use their hands so when they found a candy bar they had to spit it out, chunks and all onto a plate.

Ahh, the joys of watching teenagers hurl chunks of candy bars and baked beans! It’s a beautiful thing.

What was the best theme party you’ve been to or organized? What games did you play?

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    1 Adam said:

    ugh.. I think I just “dry heaved” looking at those pics. That is gross. I would have been the guy in the very back of the room not wanting to do that..

    (shudders)

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    2 Jared Woodard said:

    The youth group I volunteer with does a “Pointless Eating Game”,in which everyone eats a random number of items until one team finishes all of theirs. I definetly chuged down a quart of backed beans one hot july afternoon,outside,in this game. Needless to say,I feel for these kid’s :D

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    3 Shanda said:

    I’ve been lurking for a while, but I just had to come out of hiding to say that’s just nasty! :)

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    4 Danny Eiler said:

    BloChunks night .. all based off of Revelation 3:16 where God says that our lukewarmness makes him want to throw up.

    it was a night of games that were just nasty nasty eating games.

    The worst one was called, “can you eat it”, where they picked the worst items they could find asked “Can you eat it” to each one and then through it in a blender … nastiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life to this day!

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    5 Crystal Renaud said:

    oh that’s gross.

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    6 brandiandboys said:

    that is disgusting…. definitely doesn’t fit the Daniel Diet, so I guess you won’t be doing it again soon! that’s the good news. :)

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    7 nicole said:

    i have been a part of many :gross things: in my life….
    ~ :blender night: mystery items in a bag….put in a blender…random :milkshake: you must drink…summer…trailer…..tight quarters….no ventilation…..puke….
    ~ we had our own western night…..valentine’s banquet style….
    paper on tables…ketchup on a strip of tin foil that was running down the middle of the table….no utensils….girls in nice dresses….needless to say it got a little messy and it was not because of the lack of utensils.
    ~ man challenge… 4 stations….swimming in freezing water….carrying a ridiculously large log up a hill….push ups…..then mystery bag….you and a partner must complete all these challenges together….equally sharing the responsibilities…..puking/frost bitten boys make for an interesting night serve
    oh the memories

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    8 Janaki said:

    I’m also a lurker but I have to agree that that looks sick! I spent a long time as a volunteer high school camp activities coordinator- the grossest thing we did was a game called “Tampico Challenge” you know- that sugar juice that comes in milk jugs? We’d get a different color/flavor for each team and the first team to finish the gallon wins… except its impossible to drink that and NOT puke. We had garbage cans lined up and the kids at camp chanted “vomit! vomit!” Pretty gross! But, hilarious!



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    9 Jessica said:

    oh man, I would have never been able to do that game! So nasty! :)

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    10 Rachel said:

    LOL…..That has to be one of the sickest picitures I’ve ever soon! My husband was a youth pastor for 3 years and we did some pretty nasty stuff with our kids too. The grossest thing I can remember us doing is Fear Factor (our style) We had them all over at our home that night and the challenge was to find 15 or so of the grossest foods in our refrigerator and cabinets and mix them all together and see you could drink a glass of the nasty mixture.

    Surprisingly enough many of them took the challenge. Some of the things they chose to add in were mayo. pickled pigs feet, (we had bought those and put them in the cabinet for them to choose…hehe) sardines, texas pete, sour cream, cottage cheese, ect. We had one girl to throw up while trying to get it all down. I was in charge of mixing it all, and the smell was even too much for me to handle.

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    11 aaron said:

    oh many of times, many of memories.
    the heart of youth is easily won with sick games!!



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    12 Pete Wilson said:

    That does bring back a lot of memories. Now, I think I have to go puke.

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    13 tam said:

    im about to blow holy chunks brad! thanks a lot!

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    14 evan courtney said:

    We recently did an 80s theme night.
    Blogged about it here.

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    15 Cherith said:

    AHH!!! I remember that night. I think we were all freaking out and the girls spent quite a long time in the bathroom cleaning up!!! How wonderful. Right now, we’re throwing stuff in a blender to see if it will blend! LOL.. not gross but largely entertaining!!!

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    16 Abbey said:

    The greatest thing about the baked beans is that it was brother against sister…gotta love that sibling rivalry!!
    The nastiest thing I’ve ever done is play Ultimate Frisbee with a dead squid. oh, the lovely smell…



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    17 Kelli Brownlee said:

    im definitely sick to my stomach



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    19 Adam said:

    The game sounded like a lot of fun, but we could have done without all those pictures. I may have to try this one with our middle schoolers sometime.

    We played a game one time where we had to bob for clothes pins in applesauce. Then we had to clip the clothes pin onto a string using only our mouth. We had applesauce everywhere!



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