Paper
After the post on Pens, I thought we should talk about how useful paper is in a youth ministry. While the eco-friendly movement has been promoting paperless alternatives for shopping bags, books, and notebooks, paper is still going strong in ministry. Here are three different types of paper, and how you can use them in your youth ministry:
- Copy Paper. Copy paper is the most useful out of the three. It is what you print answer sheets to Powerpoint games, message outlines, and retreat signup sheets. But you can have more fun with it. Have a paper airplane contest. Give students a ream of copy paper, tell them to crumple it up, and then have a snowball fight (relevant in Ocean City since we rarely get snow!). Plus, copy paper is necessary for all the administrative details (budgets, letters, and resignations) that most youth workers would care to forget.
- Butcher’s Paper. Hang this up on a wall of the Youth Room, tape photos from a trip, and let your students write captions around it. Or, lay the butcher’s paper on the floor, trace your students, and hang them up around the church. When I was a student, we used butcher’s paper to play hangman and draw pictures for VBS while on a missions trip. Because of its large size, butcher paper is great for quick group uses.
- Shredder Paper. I know this is not a type of paper, but the remnants of shredded documents are very useful in youth ministry. Bags full of shredded paper serve as great cushions on which your students can jump. Even better, if your church’s shredder cuts the paper into small bits, then you instantly have confetti for your group’s New Year’s all-nighter.
The series “Youth Pastor Toolbox” discusses tools of the trade for youth ministry. A new “Youth Pastor Toolbox” will be posted every Tuesday.
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