GROW WITH EACH OTHER

Ideas:

• Ask people to share 3-5 defining moments from their life.
• Ask people to share their Highs, Lows and Heroes.
• Ask people to bring in objects that represent important periods of their life (“Show and Tell”).

Story Tips:

• Give people freedom to share their story in fun and creative ways
  (Examples:  photographs, show and tell, reading from journals, music, symbols and objects, PPT)
• Schedule time in each meeting for a few people to share their story.
  (Or you could devote an entire meeting to this)
• Give a time limit, for example 10-15 minutes, otherwise their story could take over the whole meeting.
• After sharing their story, have a time for the group to engage with the person. They could share observations, words of encouragement, questions and prayer.

Have a Scavenger Hunt
Give your group members a scavenger hunt to participate in!

• This can be stuff around their house (eg. Find one sock, find a random spice, find an old family picture where someone is wearing a hat)
• Or stuff they can find outside (eg. Find a leaf that has four different colors on it, find a flower, find a tree)
• Or stuff they can find online (eg. Find facts about a certain topic, find an article about a certain topic from a specific year, find a YouTube tutorial with a certain fact)

Highs and Lows
Pick a time of the day/week that you will always be on Zoom. Let group members know you want to hear the highs and lows of their day/week.

Netflix Watch Party
Getting your group together to watch a show, a documentary, or a movie and chat through it is an awesome and fun way to stay connected. There are a few ways you could do this. A low tech option is to tell everyone to start it at the same time and start a group text about it (or use GroupMe). A higher-tech option would be something like netflixparty.com.

Cooking Show
Host a digital cooking show. Use ingredients they most likely already have at home, things like flour, sugar, or chocolate chips. You can host the lesson, invite an older person in your church to teach, or give each student two to three minutes to introduce and explain how to make a certain recipe in a specific category and then show off their final product of what they’ve made.

Trivia Night
Host your own trivia night online! About anything. OR let your group members put the questions together and run it for the group!

Lunch or Dinner Chat
Have your small groups jump on some sort of video chat around lunchtime or dinnertime and just hang out while eating together. No real structure—just chilling while you have a sandwich!

Theme Anything
This could be a PJ party, Christmas party, hat, party, costume party—basically any kind of party you can think of. Whatever it is, pick a theme for your gathering and encourage your group to go all out.

Virtual Charades or Pictionary
Assign a game host. Divide the group into teams or play every person for themselves. Text them the word or phrase. Then let the fun begin!

Virtually Go Somewhere Together
Log on to the aquarium, zoo, or national park live-stream together and have a group chat about it while you watch! So many places are offering these opportunities right now.

YouVersion / Bible App Digital Devos
There’s not a better time than now to help group members develop a daily habit of spending a few minutes reading the Bible and in prayer. The YouVersion Bible App is a great place to do that. There are even reading plans for every topic and you can invite them to do the devotional with you right in the app!

Play a Game of Heads Up
Have every group member download the app and take turns playing heads up.

Play an Online Game Together:
There are a variety of ways you can play a game online. Here are a few suggestions:

• Board Game Arena
• Table Topia

Recreate Museum Paintings
Have your group members recreate museum paintings with stuff they can find in their home and then share the picture with group members.