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Making a Life Night Environment on a Budget

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Making environments for retreats and life nights are some of my favorite parts of youth ministry. They really take a good life night to the next level and add some “wow!” factor when teens walk in the room.

In the past, it wasn’t uncommon for me to spend a lot of money to make a killer environment. However, times are changing and my Church is looking at greatly shrinking our budgets. How can youth ministry keep providing great environments for teens at a fraction of a cost? My solution is to build a few life night set-ups that I can reuse with elements I can swap in and out.

Honoring Pope Benedict XVI: A Free Life Night and Edge Night

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Like the rest of the world, when we heard that Pope Benedict would be resigning (okay, really abdicating) his position as pope, we knew we needed to help our teens and middle schoolers understand the importance of this moment in the Church’s history. Young people will be hearing countless messages about the Church in the coming weeks. Some of that information will be accurate, but much of it will likely be opinion and misunderstanding about what is really happening in our Church. We’ve created

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January 2013 Life Night: My Idol

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Our first Life Night is about modern idolatry. When teenagers hear about an “idol” they probably are thinking about Phillip Phillips or Jordin Sparks, not about a golden statue of a foreign god. Teenagers have plenty of idols that they do worship, though they are not made of gold or stone. Popularity, money, and relationships all can become an “idol” to a teenager when they put those things above God.

This Life Night challenges teenagers to honestly examine their lives and discern how they have put created things above the creator, and how to reprioritize their lives to put God before all else.

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Life Night INGs: Brainstorming, Planning, Executing

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This PowerPoint Presentation is to be used to help a Core Team brainstorm, plan, and execute a Life Night.

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Planning a Life Night: Gather, Proclaim, Break, Send

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This PowerPoint Presentation is to be used to explain what a Life Night is to a Core Team.