I’ve had several people ask me if I am on “Facebook”… (www.facebook.com)?
Yes I am… I have also set up a special group on “Facebook” so we can mingle and get to know each other a little better….
You can join the group by following the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/creativeyouthideas
While there, why not answer my question on the Creative Youth Ideas discussion board at facebook:
What is one of your most pressing questions you have in working with youth?
With YOUth on my heart
Ken
People have been asking me about how to find me on facebook, Twitter, and other social media websites.
Here are some places you can also find me:
Say hello and tell me you visited my website.
www.facebook.com/kensapp
www.twitter.com/youthideas
www.twitter.com/youthideas
www.flickr.com/kensapp
Some of you have asked to know a little more about me, so here it is:
Ken Sapp: International Youth Specialist
For almost 20 years, Ken Sapp has worked with thousands of youth from around the world as a mentor, a teacher, a basketball coach, and as a youth specialist. He has touched the lives of young people from many nations including USA, England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and others.
He has mentored youth one-to-one and led youth camps and international workshops for groups as large as 1000 youths. With the experience and understanding he has gained, he conducts training and workshops for parents and others who want to make a positive difference in the lives of the youth.
Currently, he resides in Singapore and is Vice-President and Head of the Training Academy for PromiseWorks (www.promiseworks.org). PromiseWorks has become internationally renowned for Youth mentorship and our volunteers are passionate about impacting the youth generation to become one that has promise and hope. In November 2003, the Singapore National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) recognised the efforts and successes of PromiseWorks and awarded us the Outstanding New Initiative Award. Working closely with the Singapore National Youth Council and Singapore Secondary schools we are determined to create a positive future by impacting the lives of youth today!
He has a diverse background in speech communications, Youth Ministry, education, website development, and computer programming. He has a BS in Speech Communications (Organizational Communications) which is communications within a company or organization. He currently works as the Web Content Manager for an e-Learning Company that provides online educational seminars during the day and spends much of his other time doing youth related projects and on his personal website committed to the development of youth.
I have included my most creative youth ideas from almost 20 years of youth ministry with teens from around the world. The youth ideas are grouped according to categories and include my favorite youth games, creative teaching ideas, youth devotions, children’s sermons, illustrations for youth sermons, object lessons for children and youth, and youth ministry training resources. (P.S. The creative ideas are great for children’s ministry and young adult ministry too)
If you find some of the creative ideas useful, please leave a comment or send me a message . It makes my day when I hear how people are using these creative youth ideas and resources to touch the lives of youth around the world.
You are free to use any of the creative youth ideas you find here for your personal ministry but I retain COPYRIGHT for my materials.
Commercial publication is prohibited without my express permission, but I am open to opportunities!
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With YOUth on my heart!
Ken Sapp 
We’re truly thankful for a great year. God certainly has a way of blowing our minds when we yield ourselves to Him!
There’s so much to be thankful for. God has indeed been good to us – we never imagined how large our ministry could have grown – over 30,000 youth leaders in over 200 countries. We’ve reached places where we couldn’t have gone on our own. Touched lives in places we barely know about (some of them we didn’t even know existed). We’ve truly been blessed to have you as part of the Creative Youth Ideas community! And it’s all thanks to God’s grace.
Perhaps, this song sums up how we feel best:
Looking for some ideas on things to do for New Year’s Eve with your youth or even with your family?
Check out some of these ideas from the Creative Youth Ideas Website:
Happy New Year!
Holiday CollectionCreative Holiday Ideas has over 300 pages of ideas to help you plan your next New Year’s Day celebration with your youth. If you’ve ever wondered what you’re going to do for the various holidays and how you’re going to do it, this resource is for you.
=> Tell me more about the Holiday Collection
Here’s wishing you a Blessed Christmas!
A lot of youth workers and people from all walks of life have been asking me for a very comprehensive Christmas Party Checklist in PDF format that they could immediately download and use to plan their Christmas Parties right away. At this time of the year there are office Christmas Parties, School Christmas Parties, Church Christmas Parties, Family Christmas Get Togethers, and many other Christmas activities. It sometimes seems like everyone is having a Christmas Party.
Because of that I have created a free downloadable PDF with everything I could think of for planning a Christmas Party, whether it is for children, youth or adults. I’m sure you’ll appreciate how long and comprehensive it is.
There are so many little details to consider when planning any Christmas Party, and if you are like me, you will usually forget something. (NOTE: If I have forgotten something on the list please drop me an email so I can add it to the list and resend it to everyone so all can benefit from your insight)
Just go to the following link to get the Christmas Party Checklist in PDF format.
BTW, did I mention it is in a PDF format that you can print and use right away!
That’s why I love checklists. They keep me from making the same mistakes year after year, and best of all, I don’t have to stress over trying to remember all the necessary details and can spend my time enjoying the Holidays with the youth.
If you missed the link, here it is again:
Christmas Party Checklist
Don’t forget to save it somewhere on your computer once it loads.
While you are at it,
If you are looking for lots of Christmas ideas, including Christmas icebreakers, Christmas games,
devotions, lessons, illustrations and even gift exchange ideas for your party….
Why not check out:
Have a Blessed Christmas and thanks for making Creative Youth Ideas the #1 “Youth Ideas” website on the internet!
Ken
Creative Youth Ideas Christmas Collection!
All the Christmas ideas are in our easy-to-read format. There’s a searchable index, an intuitive contents page, detailed descriptions of the games, ideas, and activities, re-printable worksheets for some of the more complicated ideas, and over 200 ideas in total!
The streets here in Singapore have really been busy with one major event about to explode into action. If you haven’t heard about it by now, it’s the first time this little island nation I call home will be hosting an international sporting event – the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. Not only is it the first time we’re hosting something this big, it’s the first Youth Olympic Games to be held ever!
I thought a great way to celebrate this international youth sporting event would be to launch not one but two Youth Bible Study series / Youth Camp Curriculum that are sports themed. It doesn’t matter which part of the world you’re in, you’ve probably heard of the Olympics. Likely, your youth would have heard about the 2010 Youth Olympic Games too. We hope to support you with these great sports-themed studies, something that they can easily relate to and invite their pre-believing friends to participate in too.
Click below to learn more…
“Go for the Gold” – Youth Olympic Game themed Bible Study Series
This is an evangelistic youth Bible Study or Youth Camp Curriculum. I’m taking a step of faith here in the vein of the good work of what the Alpha course is doing to reach out to pre-believing youth in five 1-2 hour sessions, to share the truth about salvation using the Olympic rings as a backdrop to the Bible studies. This study can also be used as an evangelistic tool for mature Christians to reach out to their own friends and loved ones.
Click below to learn more…
“Destined to Win” – Youth Sports themed Bible Study Series (Great for the Youth Olympics too)
This sports-themed Bible Study or Camp Curriculum covers what it takes to run the Christian race. It’s a great follow-up study to “Go for the Gold” as the content focuses on answering “What’s next?” and “What is my spiritual destiny?” In five 1-2 hour sessions, I hope to impart what it takes to run the Christian race.
Your youth will learn:
If you’re not running any more camps this season, not to worry, I’ve designed this curriculum to be used for your Bible Studies, Sunday School or Small Groups.
Find out more about how you can challenge your youth to “Go for the Gold” and “run the race” towards their spiritual destiny by clicking on the links below:
With YOUth on my heart
Ken
The end of the 2010 FIFA World Cup is just around the corner.
Who do you think will win in the final soccer match of the FIFA World Cup?
Will it be Spain or Netherlands that takes home the 2010 soccer World Cup title?
I heard the cephalopod (Paul the Octopus) correctly picked Spain to reach the World Cup final. Apparently the little sucker has been issued with death threats after the Germans were beaten 1-0 in the most recent soccer match. There have been calls from the Germans for him to be “thrown to the sharks” and to be the guest of honor at a paella dinner with himself being the main course. They even aired anti-octopus songs in Berlin. It’s getting so bad that Spain’s Prime Minister, Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero, joked on a radio show: “I am concerned for the octopus … I am thinking of sending him a protective team.”
It’s quite amazing how Soccer / Football fans can get so worked up over a sport but that has been true since the Roman times. In fact the Bible has many references to sports. We still love our sports. And the 2010 FIFA World Cup is no different.
While I don’t know what I think about this “mystic” mollusk predicting the football matches, I do know that World Cup Football is on the minds of viewers all around the world as we approach the final football match.
Appropriately, one of my Creative Youth Ideas subscribers sent me a great little Youth Bible Study centered around football (or soccer) as us Americans call it.
–> Soccer Bible Study for Youth
I thought it was too good to keep it to myself and he has graciously granted permission for it to be placed on my Creative Youth Ideas website.
It’s a great opportunity to take advantage of the world cup football fever and use it as an opportunity to share Christ with your youth.
As Christians we don’t need an octopus to tell us the future. The Bible has already told us what the future holds and how we can be on the winning side in the great game of life.
So here is the Bible study using Football (soccer) as a theme. Click on the link below to download the student and the teacher’s guides. (Thanks to Trevor Lineham at Foxton Bible Camp in New Zealand for his gracious generosity)
–> Soccer Bible Study for Youth
Have a great weekend!
With YOUth On My Heart,
Ken