Two years ago I gave away a game I made combining audio clips from different movies. The idea is to have youth group kids pair up with a piece of paper and pencil and, as a team, try to correctly identify as many movies as they can. The winning team get some candy or a cheap prize.

I created another one and played it with our youth group last week. Apparently it’s a bit harder than I thought it would be.

First, here’s the answer key:

1. Napoleon Dynamite
2. Incredibles
3. Finding Nemo
4. Shrek 2
5. 50 first dates
6. Night at the museum
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
8. Toy Story
9. Ice Age
10. Madagascar
11. Elf
12. Mrs. Doubtfire
13. Nacho Libre
14. Prince of Egypt
15. Wizard of Oz
16. Transformers: revenge of the fallen
17. Up
18. Star Trek
19. Open Season 2
20. Kung Fu Panda
21. Bolt
22. The Dark Knight
23. Wall-E
24. Cars
25. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
26. National Treasure 2
27. Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom
28. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
29. Spiderman 3
30. Robots

There’s two options for downloading the audio file. You can download it in iTunes or download the mp3 directly below:

Play: Movie sound clips trivia

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Join us for LIVE YM Talk this Monday, February 8! The “The “Youth Ministry Advance Team: Haiti” members will discuss their upcoming missions work.” Our guests will include Adam McLane, Anne Jackson, Jeremy Zach, Jeff Goins, and others. We’d love to have you join us! The live conversation starts at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.

The folks at interlinc have been able to cultivate a very cool relationship with Adam from the band Owl City (if you haven’t heard of them, your students have – he was #1 on iTunes for weeks). I’m told Adam is a wonderful believer and is letting his music communicate his faith.

Free Bible study for Owl City music

Interlinc wants to share their digital introduction to Owl City (a letter from Adam to youth leaders and some song explanations) and a two-session Bible study guide to go along with two of Owl City’s songs, including “Fireflies” (you can listen to the song at the bottom of the page here).

Free music video DVD loop

Interlinc would also love to give you a copy of their Music Video Loop 68 DVD. It contains a ton of music videos and extras. They’ll send you the DVD completely free – no strings attached – they just want you to try and see what playing some good Christian music for you student can do. Just call 1-800-725-3300 and say “I want the free Music Video Loop 68 DVD.”

Check out the DVD contents here. It includes videos from Flyleaf, Skillet, Switchfoot, Britt Nicole, Hawk Nelson, KJ-52, and a lot more.

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Join us for LIVE YM Talk this Monday, February 1! We’re discussing, “The need for theological questioning in youth ministry.” Our guest will be Jake Bouma. We’d love to have you join us! The live conversation starts at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.

This is probably one of those things you never knew you needed until you saw it, and as soon as you saw it, you thought of a 100 ways to use it.

This font gives you cut-outs that let you build 3D pixel style letters, perfect for creating a sign to display upright on a table, gluing to a poster, or to give to students to spell different words for a game or lesson opener.

1. Type the letters you want in a document
2. Print it out. Cardstock probably works best.
3. Cut along the solid lines
4. Fold along the dotted lines
5. Put some glue on the shaded flaps
6. Stick them together and there you go!

Download “Punched Out” font

If you’re unsure how to install a font, here’s how to do it on Windows and here’s how to do it on Mac.

[ ht churchrelevance.com ]

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Join us for LIVE YM Talk this Monday, January 19! We’re discussing, “How to connect God’s Word with students who appear disconnected, apathetic, and distracted.” Our guest will be E.J. Swanson, a national speaker at teen conferences, camps, and retreats. We’d love to have you join us! The live conversation starts at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.

Leave it to Paul Turner to again contribute a great resource for Freebie Friday! I think he’s starting to get close to rivaling Brett Hetherington for the most Freebie Friday contributions! Thanks, Paul!

Paul sent this to me with the following note:

Made this the other day for our campus Bible club. We divided the group into four and started them in different locations. Worked out very well. We met back together at the end and for testimonies and group prayer.

Download the Campus Prayer Walk Gude

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Join us for LIVE YM Talk this Monday, January 19! We’re discussing, “What every youth worker can learn from urban youth ministry.” Our guest will be Eric Iverson, the Multi-Cultural Integrity Director for YouthWorks. We’d love to have you join us! The live conversation starts at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.

I don’t remember who pointed me to today’s Freebie Friday — I think it was in a chat conversation with someone on Skype actually. Sorry for not giving credit to whoever deserves it!

Someone passed this link along to me. It’s a guy’s website with lots of his youth ministry resources available for free. He has Bible studies, PowerPoint games, special event stuff, videos that can be used as teaching illustrations or just for fun, and more. Looks like there could be some valuable time-saver resources here. Of course, be sure to use his Share page to contribute any of your own resources, too.

Break Free Youth Ministry

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Join us for LIVE YM Talk this Monday, January 11! We’re doing another show of answering recent questions and debates from MinistryQuestions.com. We’d love to have you participate by giving your input, answers, and advice for people’s questions during the live conversation at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.

One of the Youth Ministry Mentors, John Byrne, runs a site called YM Theology. It features a lot of youth ministry videos, podcasts and blog posts surrounding youth ministry and theology, but John also has a page of youth ministry content he’s created that he’s willing to just give away for free. The page includes

• Description of a Discipled Person
• Discipline
• Event Prep Worksheet
• Internship Proposal
• KRA-s
• Intern Job Description
• Small Group Training
• SWOP
• Worship Team Application
• Youth ministry leader app
• Christmas Trivia

Also on his page is a 4-week youth group curriculum series called “Twilight” that’s based on the story of Ruth. You can download all 4 weeks of the discussion questions for the series plus everything else mentioned above right here:

Free Youth Ministry Stuff from YMTheology.com

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For LIVE YM Talk this Monday, January 4, Todd Perkins is our featured guest. He will lead us in a discussion about designing and communicating the student ministry’s vision to the church and community. We’d love to have you join us for the live conversation at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.

Troy Young created and donated this year’s Christmas Freebie Friday! Thanks, Troy!

If your youth ministry uses countdown timers, here’s a simple 5-minute timer on a green screen. You can put your latest youth ministry video of an event, a motion background, or even your youth group logo in front of the green screen. iMovie ‘09 makes it dead simple to use a green screen, so if you’re on a Mac, this should be simple.

Download 5-minute green-screen countdown timer*

*You may have to right-click on the link and select, “Save Target As” or “Save Link As” in order to download the video file.

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There is no LIVE YM Talk this week. Our next talk is on Monday, January 4, 2010, were we will talk about designing and communicating the student ministry’s vision to the church and community. Our guest will be Todd Perkins of Youth Ministry Consultants, Inc.. Join us then for LIVE YM Talk.

Although you no longer have 3 more weeks to do a Christmas lesson series with your youth group, you could tuck this away for next year, cram it in this year, or even continue to talk about Christ’s birth after Christmas (imagine that!).

This freebie from Interlinc includes a couple articles and three free Christmas youth group lesson plans.

• Article: The Humbling Starts Here
• Article: A Righteous Dude
• Article: Really, A Virgin?
• Session One: Unplanned Pregnancies
• Session Two: A Trip At The Worst Time
• Session Three: A Child Is Born

View and download the Nativity 3-Session Resource Guide

As a bonus, here’s a PDF quiz of Christmas carols that is print-ready for 8.5×11 paper and produces two quizes per page. The answer sheet is printable as well. We used it with our youth group last week and had a lot of fun with it!

Christmas Carol Game PDF

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There is no LIVE YM Talk this week nor next week. Our next talk is on Monday, January 4, 2010, were we will talk about designing and communicating the student ministry’s vision to the church and community. Our guest will be Todd Perkins of Youth Ministry Consultants, Inc.. Join us then for LIVE YM Talk.

iTunes is giving away a free 20-track Christmas music album for you to download!

1. O Come All Ye Faithful – Amy Grant
2. The First Noel – David Archuleta
3. Silent Night – Sarah McLachlan
4. Carol of the Bells / Jingle Bells – Barry Manilow
5. It Snowed – Meaghan Smith
6. Above the Northern Lights – Mannheim Steamroller
7. Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Lady Antebellum
8. We Three Kings – Toby Keith
9. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Rascal Flatts
10. Silent Night – Wynonna
11. Twelve Days of Christmas – Mexicani Marimba Band
12. We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Weezer
13. A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss) – Glasvegas
14. Another Christmas Song – Stephen Colbert
15. Greensleeves – Vince Guaraldi Trio
16. Dream a Dream – Charlotte Church
17. The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act 2: Character Dances (Divertissement) – Dance of the Reed Pipes – Kirov Orchestra & Valery Gergiev
18. Angels We Have Heard On High – Aretha Franklin
19. O Holy Night – Musiq Soulchild
20. Auld Lange Syne – The Lonesome Travelers

Don’t ya love it with God uses unbelievers to spread His message?!

Download the iTunes Holiday Sampler

[ ht to MattReeve on Twitter ]

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This Monday, December 14, John Mulholland will join us to the issues that surround separating jr and sr high ministries. Join us for the live conversation at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.

Simply Youth Ministry is giving away several Christmas PowerPoint games and Christmas backgrounds for free!

On their Freebie Games page, you can download three different PowerPoint Games: Christmas Trivia Game, Christmas Zoom-In Game, and Christmas Sing-along Game. There’s also directions there for a non-PowerPoint Christmas game called Christmas Wrap-Off.

They’re also giving away 10 free Christmas backgrounds to use with PowerPoint

In case that’s not enough, check out their free talk outline called, The Christmas Killers. It helps students see that Christmas is more than gifts.

And, of course, there’s the Christmas Carol PowerPoint game I gave away over 100 freebies ago, too.

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This Monday, December 7, Walt Mueller of CPYU will join us to answer questions related to youth culture, parenting and ministry. We’d love it if you could submit your questions ahead of time, though. Join us for the live conversation at 2:00 PM eastern time! See our LIVE YM Talk page for details.