Just Youth: Games Night!

Because there was no Just Youth Event in December we wanted to have one very shortly after arriving back here. Just Youth is usually a prepare-all-week type of event so we decided to try something different and just do a games night. We had about 50 people come and we started with table games - Uno, Dutch Blitz, foosball and ping pong being the most popular. 

After an hour of table games we organized some group games - shuffle your buns (which is an old MCI special), life-sized paper-rock-scissors and a few others that we found on the internet.

The final minutes of a new game we found called Ships and Sailors:

Steve trying to get all his smiles out before the next game starts:

 The game starts with everyone standing in groups of two, following instructions from the leader and attempting to make the other person smile. The first one to smile is eliminated and the winner rematches until there is only one lone survivor.
These guys are facing off - trying to make each other smile.

The intense final round was closely judged by Steve:

We finished the evening with more table games and as always we provided coffee, tea and cookies. It was a lot of fun and something we might like to add in as a more regular event on top of the regular Just Youth night which we will start planning for very soon.