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Youth Ministry Summer Olympics - Youth Group Games · Ministry Coach: Youth Ministry Tips & Resources

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Summer is right around the corner and it is the perfect time to plan a Summer Olympics event for your youth ministry.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Today we got you covered.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk all about how to plan it, promote it, pick your teams and, most importantly, what games are the best to play for your youth group.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast, where we bring you weekly tips and tactics to help you fast-track the growth and health of your youth ministry.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: If this is the first time we're meeting, my name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen Laskola.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: And today you're in for a treat, because we have a brand new summerific episode for you where we are talking all about how to lead, launch plan a summer Olympics competition in your youth ministry.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: It is Olympic time.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, almost.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: It's an Olympic year.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: It's going to be in Paris this year.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, I didn't know what you're perry.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get cultured get cultured what's pelly?
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: pelly so in honor of the olympics.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: You know some people are like so excited and just love the olympics.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: I have a friend like that and she looks forward to it every four years I I was going to say every year and it's like an event and so my guess is you have some students and some families like that, and summer could potentially be a little bit of a slump, for youth ministry Camp is a big deal and there's a lot of energy surrounding that.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: But doing another competition series like a summer Olympics could keep that energy going.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: And it could be really fun and exciting and, believe it or not, pretty easy.
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Pretty easy to pull off because the theme is already pretty much done for you.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: So you know, but even easy as it may be, I'm going to walk you through it today.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: So first of all, you got to promote it.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: Any good event comes with promotion.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: You got to talk about it and hype it up, leading to the event.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: I think the ideal promotion window is about three weeks out, depending on the event.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Camp is a different story.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: That's way longer, but for something like this, three, three weeks in advance.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: And so you want to have flyers.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: If you do that, graphics for your live announcements.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: You want to be posting about it on your social media, announcing it to the students, emailing the parents about it.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Have a little video promo.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, what do you know?
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: There's tons of Olympic footage on YouTube.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: So feel free, um, guess what?
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: There's already a graphic.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: It's the Olympic rings, bada bing, bada boom.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: Just put your dates and you know location on it and you got a graphic, easy.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: So you want to spend some time promoting and kind of hyping it up.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: Second step you want to do if you're promoting it, kids want to know, maybe, what they win.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Right, my kids do anyway.
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: Give me incentive to show up.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, the games are fun enough and it's going to be so hype and fun, but what is the prize?
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: You know, and a plastic gold medal might not cut it, although you definitely want to order some of those.
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: We have a lot of Amazon links for you to order some of these supplies but what do they win?
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: So, depending on the size of your group and budget, that will determine what the winning team gets.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: So that could be something like hey, we're going to summer camp.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: The team that wins is first in line at every meal.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: That costs you nothing and that was a prize and it's a good prize.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: I would love that.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really, I'm never first in line and I'm hungry.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: It could be an ice cream party.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: We do one of those like the losing team serves the winning team and ice cream party, or you don't have to do that, you could just get them a sweet ice cream party at our kids' school.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they'll do these VIP like glow parties and it's like food and glow and music and dancing.
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: That's a whole other event.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: Now you're talking about Not hard.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: Well, if you have black lights, not hard to pull off, just an idea.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: Or like a trip to a trampoline park, that is usually pretty affordable and reasonable, just like an hour or two of jumping.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: Or maybe you have a local water park, that's reasonable.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: So depending, like I said, on how many students could potentially win in your budget, that'll kind of determine.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: So what is your prize?
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: Well, then we get to the teams.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: So you've got to figure out how do you want to do your teams.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: You could just make it simple and do it by small groups and make it a small group bonding kind of activity.
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: It depends, I guess, how many students you have in your youth ministry as well and how many teams you want to break out into games and things like that.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you need critical mass on each team, because inevitably there's kids who don't want to play, or maybe unathletic.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you want to have enough kids to choose from on each team to make it happen.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: But you could do it by small group, you could do it by countries, so you could do real countries.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: I thought another fun idea, if you're feeling up for it, like you could do fictional countries too, like you don't have to do real, like we're australia and the reason I bring this up is because I don't know about you, but I think it as an american everyone want to be on that team right you know like you're, like you're rooting for someone who you really aren't.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it doesn't matter, but I thought fictional countries could take care of that.
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: So there's, like disney, fictional countries like arendelle and agrabah and andalasia all a's, I know I thought that was kind of fun if that's a disney thing or something, but then there's monstropolis from monsters inc.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: And I thought that was.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: That's a city, not a country.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, so you could do that like monstropolis, or fine.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: And then, if you're a star wars fan, I looked up like oh, there's a bunch of star wars planets yeah I don't know how wide of an appeal that would be.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: I would be totally lost.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even can you name a star wars planet?
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: um endor, well, that's the moon endor.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, how come I, how come I don't know, uh, tatooine, dantooine, anyways you star wars you star wars fans can answer that very niche.
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Uh, interest I'm so worried what's gonna come in the comments, because I know people are gonna be correcting me oh geez, it's fine, uh, and I call myself a fan sad okay, well, I put you on the spot.
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: You weren't ready for planets, I'm not ready for most things, but anyways, you did your best um, and then you want to pick some team captains.
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: Alderaan.
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: Sorry, that's it.
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: That's the last one.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, you've proven yourself worthy.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: You are worthy of the Death Star.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: I was thinking like Death Star, but I'm like, oh, that's just a plane.
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: That could be the A ship.
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: No, that could be the leader.
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: Like the youth, leader can be the Death Star or the refs.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: I thought the Death Star was a ship you fly on.
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: It's like it's a space station.
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: That could be the refs.
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: Doesn't really matter, probably don't do that?
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: Got really hung up on this point for way too long.
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: Where's Josh Griffin when you need him?
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: Pick some team captains that always helps to have an adult leading every team.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: And then you probably want to pick some judges too.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: Whether that's you as the youth pastor, you're kind of like the ref judge host and then if you have, like some students from another ministry like if you're high school and there's some leaders from junior high that would come and help, or vice versa, if you're junior high, you actually can use high school students I do that a lot to use them as refs when we do events like this.
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of cool too as a transition from junior high moving into high school.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: They kind of get to know some of the high school students that went to.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a great role.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: They can do that.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: It's not like I'm a small group leader, but it's like this is totally a role you guys could do.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: You know whatever you want to call them judges, refs, whatever.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: So then you have those and then, after you have your teams, your teams, your team captains, your themes, you decide how many teams you need based on the size of your group.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: Then you want to think of how long is this thing going to go, because the Olympics is more in days, like not in weeks, because it happens every single day.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: It's not like all right, this week on the Olympics, it's like just a long series.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: Well, youth groups usually just meet once a week.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: So I was thinking, depending on like how into what your group is, like this could just be the summer thing and every week is a competition.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: I, if you want to just make it kind of like an event and then be over four weeks.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: I think like that's an entire month of competition, which I think is plenty.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: That's kind of where I would go is just four weeks.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: I think like that's an entire month of competition, which I think is plenty.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: That's kind of where I would go is just four weeks.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: But if you have more time to fill, do whatever you want, but you need to decide how long this thing is going to be.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: As you promote it, you need to tell them this is week one of competition week two.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: So they know, uh, when the winner will be announced and when the prize will be given and all of that.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: It can't be standalone.
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: But I feel like there's so much more anticipation when you kind of like hype it up and then yeah which?
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: Which country or planet or whatever is in the lead?
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: You know, for next week, instead of it being like it was one day we were on vacation, I missed it game over, you know as you're talking.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: The only thing I could see working in that instance would be this is your summer camp theme.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: So usually at summer camp there's like a rec component where there's team competition at some point in the day and those points accumulate throughout the week and then there's a prize.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: So you could just copy and paste this right into your summer camp program.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: But if you're looking for an additional summer hype, you know, make it, make it a few weeks yeah all right, and then let's talk about opening night or opening ceremonies.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: There are some inflatable torches on amazon and we will link those below so you can get the fanfare, the classic John Williams, you know, and have the light, or you can use the royalty free version that we use.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: the beginning of this episode so that you don't get in trouble.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Ah, a hack.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: It's up to you For the audience, just so you know.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: That's why it sounded a little off it was close.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: It was the wish version of the olympic fanfare well done, well done good night everybody.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Uh, then you know, I found some cool videos on youtube.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: There was one like Olympics over the years.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: And it just sort of has this like regal, feel like we've been doing this since the dawn of time and now it's your turn, you know.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: So you can show some footage of past Olympics.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: They're all on YouTube.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: There's some really cool ones.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: That's like all the way back from the 40s and you watch them on these weird bikes and it's in black and white and cool stuff like that.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: And you probably want to have team flags for whichever you choose.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: To get the spirit going night one, you can make your little Arendelle flags or, if you go at the countries, or just simply colors, whatever, make those ahead of time or order them whatever.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: I usually just go to the fabric store and get the cheapest single solid color fabric and then hot glue it to a wooden dowel and those are my flags and it's easy.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: So a big wooden dowel, like for the team captain to have this like big flag, but then the little like ones for the team members, and so then the you can introduce like the team captains and have them come up on stage and do a whole ceremony, introduce your judges and kind of like get them hyped on.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: Here's what you can win for the next four weeks.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: We're going to be doing this.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I have a friend who's a woodworker and he could probably make like a podium kind of thing.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: So if you have someone in your church or ministry that can make some kind of easy plywood podium like, go for it.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't find one on amazon that I felt like could hold a real person.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: They were like cardboard and I don't know what they were for, but I'm like this is like a birthday cake topping or something it was for ends need to be at least three times that size you know you, I think you could do this without the podium.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: I just think that would be an extra fun little addition.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: You know you, I think you could do this without the podium.
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: I just think that would be an extra fun little addition.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: You know for the end of every night to say who's in first, second and third.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: They have really cheap metals on amazon.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: There is actually a package that comes with the inflatable torches and the cheap metals that are bronze, silver, gold, so you know you could shop and see and then or you can get creative with the podium, like if you had crates or pallets or card.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: I used to always use copier paper boxes.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just drag them out of the office and our admin would get really mad.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: But I'm like what do you want me to do?
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: I have nothing else, so I would just use that for games and the kids would stomp all over it and ruin the paper.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: Uh that's probably why she was just the top layer.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: It's fine, all right.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: So then you have the opening ceremonies and then you're ready for competition.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about a few games.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of games in the summer olympics and you can look at the list If you go to the official Olympic website.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: It's actually really user-friendly and they give a description of every game, the rules of every game, how to win, how they judge it, and it's very short, little snippets.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: It's not like you're reading this whole article on it, and so I chose the ones that I think would be most conducive to youth ministry.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: But if you want the list of all the games that we have with instructions, email us at ministrycoachpodcasts at gmailcom and just ask for summer Olympic games and we'll send that over to you.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: So this is just like the preview version, I guess, of all the games that we have.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll try to explain them quickly.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: A lot of them are self-explanatory.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: So number one is the torch relay.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: So they're actually going to do that this year in paris and they have all these runners just waiting at these different locations.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: So the first runner takes the torch and goes and then goes to the, finds their teammate at this location, passes them the torch.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: They go, finds their their teammate at this location, passes them the torch.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: They go, finds their next teammate at their location.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: You can see where this is going.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: The first team to get back wins.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: So, depending on where you're holding this, what your facility is like, you want to maybe draw a little map and put it on the screen and say here's where your teammates will be the first one to get the torch, through all the runners and back here wins.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: And again, you want to keep points for everyone, because with the olympics you know it's first, second and third and all of that.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: So that is the torch relay.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: That can be kind of like the opening ceremony thing just to get them warmed up.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: And it's very easy you just have to run and pass the torch.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: And then number two I think this one would be so fun to do, like on the last night, maybe, like a different location because you're going to need a body of water.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: It's the Summer Olympics, you know, so a lot of them have to do with swimming.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: So whether that's a pool or a lake or if you're at camp, easy, because there's a body of water usually at every summer camp.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: And so a few of the swimming games, competitions you could do is just a classic race like the breaststroke, or you could just say I don't know, swim however you like and go.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: And then could just say I don't know, swim however you like and go.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: And then one is ultimate steel the bacon inner tube edition.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: We play that every year at the river when we go to our camp.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Basically you number people on the team and if their number is called they have to swim out, grab the inner tube that's floating out there and drag it back and be the first person to touch their cone back on the shore.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: But it gets a little complicated because other team members will catch up to them and then it becomes a tug of war and then they get tired and you know, it becomes this whole.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: It's really fun to watch and it's exhausting for the kids.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: But it's in water.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: You can stand in though, right.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, it's in water.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: You can stand in though, right?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, we sometimes put the tube where they would actually have to swim a little bit to get it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: They might not be able to touch.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And then they start swimming back and they can touch pretty quickly and they start running to their cone and someone might be right on their heels trying to grab that inner tube.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: And it's fair game.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: They can try to grab it from them.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: That's a super fun water game.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Not necessarily part of the Olympics, but wrestling is part of the Olympics.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: So you know it's similar to wrestling wrestling in the water over a tube and then, instead of like diving, competition.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know that just makes me nervous with kids.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: A belly flop competition we judge it on.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: You know creativity form, belly floppiness, you know like actually hitting the water with your belly, all of those things.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: So belly flop competition is pretty classic for youth ministry.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: You could do a modified water polo game.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You know, like I don't know if our kids are in shape enough to egg beater for 45 minutes in the deep end, but you know like, just like classic if they're standing just throwing the ball and trying to get it into a goal.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: And you can kind of like ultimate football in a way like you could go after people and just grab it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: So you got to pass it really quick and basically try to get your ball to the goal.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I think that would be a lot of fun.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: And then I think if you had a sweet location trying to pull off the triathlon, would totally be doable.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: So you have a kid swim a lap and then they get out of the pool and then you have a bike waiting for them and then after that they do the run or something like that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Or you could split it up with three different people.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Like don't want maybe a wet kid on a bike, I don't know, but what if he slips?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a slippery situation to me.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: But like yeah, he swims a lot tags and then that person gets on the bike and they have to do a certain path you have to have a real specialized location that's what I was thinking.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: This was probably camp even then, I don't know, it might be tough.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think it'd be hard to bring three bikes, well, one for each team.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Dream big people dream big.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: All right, so those are all the water options.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And then number three, table tennis, which I don't know why they don't call it ping pong, because that's what it is maybe because that sounds silly on an olympic, you know, website, but it's ping pong.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: This is the coolest thing ever.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Because you might be thinking, well, cross that one off because we don't have a ping pong table.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Well, neither do I.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I used to.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: And guess what?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They destroyed it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Aren't you shocked?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Big surprise, big surprise.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So Amazon sells a retractable ping pong net that you can now turn any table into a ping pong table.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: So you can play this a few different ways.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: You can have multiple ones, or you can do it a tournament style, and the official rules are, I think, if you are playing one-on-one, it's the first to 11 points, or you could do it like a teammate and then it's the best of five.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Like doubles.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, doubles, I think is best of five.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Singles is first to 11.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: So, like you could do a tournament like arendelle and agrabah play each other and then the winner of that and you know, just make sure everyone plays everyone.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: If you can afford to buy a second net, you could have multiple games going on at the same time, which would speed things along.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Totally up to you.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: But ping pong is super fun and again, with all of these, how you create the atmosphere is going to be what makes it exciting or not.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Are you playing fun music?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Are there lights?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Are the people cheering?
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Are you on the mic doing color commentary and you know all those things.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Remember the energy that's breathed into a game is by the people putting it on.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Like, ping pong can be dull, or ping pong can be the most exciting thing in the world.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Um, speaking to that, I was in a foosball tournament one time, which sounds like how is that even a thing?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: But you can actually add this to your summer Olympics if you want it thing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: But you can actually add this to your summer olympics if you wanted, because it's like soccer.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: But people were gathered around like five or six layers deep watching people play foosball.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: It was intense, like just the hype that was behind it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: When someone would score, they'd go nuts.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It was what was it that made it so exciting?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: it was just like an annual tournament up at this camp that they always did.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And like I entered it and the number one player I was playing and I was up three zero best of four, and then he went four zero and beat me.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: So, anyways, that was my almost claim to fame.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: He was like the reigning champ and then anyways but it just goes to say when people are bought in, and it's just like this excitement level and I was gonna say, if you need like an injection of that, I think a surefire way is get a couple of your leaders to play first.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So like if they're like hamming it up and they've got their sweatband on and they're like stretching or dancing or hyping their crowd up and like yeah, come country.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the kids will catch on.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: They're like I want to be that guy next, and so always have your leaders play.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: My leaders beg me to play.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Like what are we doing?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: A leader round, put me in, put me in and I'm like, ah, we ran out of time, cause I always like to let the kids play first.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: My kids are so competitive I usually don't need to pull that card.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But if your kids aren't competitive and they're not catching the spirit of the game, then have a leader go versus a leader and have them just ham it up.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: You know then, uh, and we'll link that net below and that we'll link everything below everything, everything's below.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: All right, volleyball.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So Jeff brought up a good point earlier.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: A lot of people are bad at it right I love volleyball, my leaders and I.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: That's what we do.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Uh, we're doing that actually.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Next month, we're having a leader night out at the volleyball courts.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Everyone brings their favorite dip and or dessert and we volleyball um, there's nothing more fun than bump set spike volleyball with people who know what they get a good rally going oh but then you then you bring in not always, but a lot of times you bring in youth ministry kids who've never played the sport and it's like serve in the net, okay.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Serve out of bounds, okay, someone go get it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It's way to.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, who's gonna get it?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just not fun.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, so if your kids, especially if you work with junior hires, I think high schoolers could probably get a rally going and play some pretty good volleyball Junior hires.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I would recommend maybe beach ball volleyball.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I think that might be a little easier for them to play, so you could try that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And might be a little easier for them to play, so you could try that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And then, the net that we're linking.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: It's meant for kids so it is easier.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: It's not as high.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I think that's the hard things sometimes for them is they like can't spike it that high or catch it, and so it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: If you do beach ball and a lower net, it might be better.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Beach balls are light, but the good news with them is they can't go so far, right, you know, and out of control and it's always out of bounds.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So this net.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: The thing I love about it is not only that it's smaller for kids, because we want them to feel successful, right, it's on a stand and that's usually what keeps me from playing volleyball.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: It's like what am I attaching this thing to?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: We have a parking lot outside.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: You know you had poured cement in these like home Depot buckets and then put a pole in it and I can't carry that, so volleyball is usually out of the question, but with this one you can put it anywhere, I kind of that's kind of like the ping pong thing.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: It's like who has a giant ping pong table?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: You?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: know great duels like a um pickleball net too, doesn't it?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: The volleyball one yeah, I think it does.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's another game yeah, you could do a pickleball tournament.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: That would be super fun.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So wrestling, like I said, is one of the summer Olympic games.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Just let them go at it for a while.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You know see what happens.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I love doing arm wrestling, so bringing up people on the stage so everyone can see and hyping it up.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: And you know we have a ref there holding their arms.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: We make everything feel so.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Regulation.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: It's youth ministry and it's silly and it's for an ice cream party.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: So, regulation, you know what I mean.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: It's youth ministry and it's silly and it's for an ice cream party.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: But you know, when we get kids hyped, it's like all right, is his arm off the table no all right, straighten up all right.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Nobody move.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Three, two, one like, make it feel like oh this is legit yeah, yeah, like this is serious
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: guys okay, and then, lastly, I saved my favorite for last, rhythmic gymnastics, and I linked the ribbons below for you.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: And sky's the limit on this one.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: This is pure hilarity.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: So each country, each team, has got to choose a performer and a song.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Right, you could either choose a song for them or they could choose their song.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I always, when I let kids choose songs, for things like that, they need to be pre-selected, which is fine.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: You know, they could come up to me and say, can I do this one?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And like we do talent shows all the time and they pick their own song, we just pre-approve it and give everyone a time limit.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I think that would be very important for this.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: So, like your best 30 second to 60 second performance, and this one you really are going to need judges for.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say the host should be judging this I think there should be like three judges in the back with paper and hold.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I think the funnest part is when they hold up the like 8.5, 7.5.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: We do that for the belly flop competition.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: We give the judges, you know, the paper and pen or a whiteboard yeah, whiteboard, and they actually will link those below too, but they sell those little.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: You can flip the card and put up a nine or nine and a half.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's legit.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're that expensive too, but whenever possible, having those is always fun I need to get those for summer camp.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Are they waterproof?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I think they're like a plastic vinyl kind of thing we need that, because I'm always like here getting this inner tube with a piece of paper and write the scores down.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So rhythmic gymnastics, I think will just be a hoot, it will be a great spectator sport and I think would be kind of a fun last night thing of just like go out with a bang.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: So, like I said, there's more than just these games and, as we're talking, you might be eliminating ones based on supplies or setting or whatever, but we have more, like Jeff said, in the PDF, and you can hop on the website too and look at the Summer Olympics and take ones for yourself that fit for you.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: So make sure you guys, if you do want that full list, go ahead and email us at ministrycoachpodcast at gmailcom and ask for Summer Olympic Games and we'll get that sent over to you and enjoy.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: so much for watching and listening and we'll see you next time it is summertime, and what a better, what a better time.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: It is summer, and what a better time.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Promote it, pick your teams and, most importantly, pick the games for the summer olympic tie.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you're laughing.