Christian Party Idea question

[Shelly9963]

Does anyone have some good ideas for christian gatherings? We have a group of adults that we have over 4 or more times a year and I am searching for some ideas for party games or ideas to invoke conversations and help people get to know one another.

Thanks,
Shelly

[hapiladi]

Boy Shelly, I will be watching with great interest any replies you might get. I too am planning a gathering of Christian friends, and altho they all know each other, I need some ideas of things/games we can play. Guess we both need to pray real hard for some great ideas, eh? LOL. Good luck! :p
I am blessed, and 1hapiladi!

[blondiejune]

Have you ever watched the show Whose Line is it Anyway? Some of those would make great party games. They can get raunchy at times, but they can be played with none of that dirty stuff.
HTH
Blondie

[CRazyj]

We play (the game) CRANIUM !!!! It is the most fun - you will laugh your heads off! You can get it at Toys R Us or any store that sells games.

[amandasiemens]

One thing that's done at my dear friends house after each dinner party is everyone takes a card from the promise box. Then as we all in turn read our verse, everyone mentions some way that God has fullfiled that promise in our lives. Really makes everyone thankful. Usually close with a hymn of thanks and praise.

God Bless!!!

Amanda

[bwsmom]

The Whose Line suggestion is a great one! You can get so many ideas for fun (and tame) games from that show! (And sometimes they'll even say, "this makes a great party game").

Also, there are two WONDERFUL group games that can be adapted to a Christian theme. The first is Outburst; the other is Balderdash. Either one makes for a great time in a group of friends, and both are clean and non-offensive! (Our "young marrieds" sunday school class of roughly 30 people played Outburst quite a lot!) Enjoy!

[ida]

how about charades,pictionary,trivial pursuit,who wants to be a millionare,...is anyone musical?a song night.have fun.

[Shelly9963]

Hapiladi:

There are two ideas, one that we have used in the past year, and one that if I don't find anything else we will use this month, that I wanted to share as well.

The first gathering we had with our group, we sat around the living room (after dinner) and I had a glass bowl filled with those glass beads that you use in fish bowels or decorator jars... the craft section in Wal-Mart has them... anyway, I asked everyone to draw out "as many as they think they want or may need". Some drew one or two and one lady took two handfulls. After everyone had drawn - I then told them that we wanted them to, for every glass bead they had, share something about themselves that not everyone would know or something they were thankful for. This was really an awesome time and God moved mightily in that group. It started with the typical, I'm 30... thankful for my job,,, kids... wife... and so on. But as it went round and round people really started opening up and sharing and it was so.... great.

The other idea I got, well borrowed, from this book I found in the Christian book store. It's called "Love Talks - For Couples". Really it says that it has 101 questions to stimulate interaction with your spouse,, but I looked through it and I have picked out alot of questions that we could do in the group and I plan, for one of our gatherings, to have everyone draw a question, answer it and then everyone else share their own answer to the same question. It should be good and after Sept. 28th I'll let you know how I make out. Unless of course, I can come up with something that might work better. They had in the bookstore other versions of this same "question" book and I hope to check into that next time that the budget allows.

I think the games that were suggested are wonderful, but we really wanted to keep it focused on sharing - interaction with each other and that's what I'm hoping to find ideas how to do.

I do love games though and we may have to do a "game" night one time too.... you all are such creative people!!

God bless,
Shelly

[bwsmom]

Ever heard of a game called the "Ungame"? You can find it in most Christian/Bible bookstores. VERY good for getting to know people on both a personal and spiritual level!

[mrsmail]

I have been thinking of games for adults for quite awhile myself. Those sound like good suggestions. I want to find something that would work for a group of about 100 adults, men and women. I was at a party once and they tied a couple up, and they had to get loose. It ended up the easy way was just to put their arms around each other and walk through. Interesting!