Social Activities for Youth

Youth Rally

• Encourage youth to organize a rally. Let them come up with their own ideas for the theme and events for the rally. Locate a gym or fellowship hall in or around the neighborhood and invite local churches and youngsters in the community to attend the rally. Guide your youngsters through their ideas; they may want to consider having a local band perform and include a talented guest speaker. Help them allocate budgets for food, venue, marketing and other essentials. Advertise the rally. This activity promotes creativity and teamwork as youngsters conceptualize the event and put efforts on their own. When they are involved, they will be committed to make it work.

Support for Missionaries

• Let youngsters locate missionaries in their community and help them in whatever way they can. This could be in the form of advertising the missionary and her works to create greater awareness, organize fundraisers to raise money for his needs or give her moral support through letters of encouragement. Such activities help to build sensitivity of youngsters to the needs of fellow people and encourage them to contribute unselfishly.

Fun Picnics & Trips

• Organize a beach picnic for your youngsters. Involve them in planning the activity so that you include ideas that appeal to them. Let each youngster prepare a food item for the party. Include potato salads, sandwiches and lemonades. At the beach, form teams to play volleyball and badminton. Consider organizing dance programs; include costume contests and prizes for the best costume.

  Take youngsters to field trips. Field trips are both fun and educational; consider taking them to local festivals, performing arts events in the neighborhood, amusement parks or camps.

Food Festival

• Form small groups and have each group prepare an ethnic food item. Let members of each group share the expenses for preparing their dishes and putting up stalls. Price each food item according to the expenses involved. Invite the local families and businesses in the community for the festival. Youngsters could consider dressing up in ethnic costumes and decorating stalls with ethnic features for greater authenticity. Consider donating the collected money to a local development project or charity cause.