Resources for Youth Groups during the Coronavirus Quarantine

Youth Ministry is Changing

Youth ministry as we know it has just changed. At least for the next several weeks many groups find themselves not able to meet face to face. This has left many of you scrambling to find out resources and ways to keep your group connected and doing ministry in this new reality.

In just the past few weeks I have already seen some awesome examples of youth leaders adapting how they do youth ministry. I wanted to collect as many of these ideas and resources as possible in one location. Over the next several days I will add links to resources, how-to tutorials, curriculum, ideas and videos you may find helpful.

Resource List

Youth Cartel Bible Curriculum

The Bible: Understanding the Biblical Narrative in 72 Short Videos – The Youth Cartel

This is a series of 72 short videos that provide an overview of every book of the Bible along with discussion questions, YouTube link ot video, outline, prayer ideas and more.

Orange Curriculum Corona Virus and Digital Service Guide

The makers of Orange Curriculum have released a digital service guide for you to use during the coronavirus. It has some great ideas on how to continue to reach out students and parents at this time.
Just head on over to their site and click the orange “Download the Guide” button.

Orange Students Coronavirus and Digital Service Guide

30 Ways to Digitally Connect With Students

Here are 30 awesome ideas of how you can connect with students during the Covid-19 pandemic from Orange. The list includes everything from going on a virtual tour of a museum together, hosting a talent show, doing crafts together and of course scavenger hunt.

30 Ways to Digitally Connect With Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Download Youth Ministry Free Resources

Download Youth Ministry has this page with helpful tips on how to go live with your youth group, and a variety of free games, graphics and curriculum to help you win with students during this time.

Visit Download Youth Ministry Website

Instagram Story Prompts from umylead.com

Here is a collection of instagram story “Would you Rather?” Graphics. You can upload them to your instagram story, use the poll sticker and send them out to your group.

Instagram Would You Rather

Effective Youth Ministry During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Jeremy Steel from the Youth Worker Collective shares several great ideas on ways to stay connected including making youth group Spotify playlist, using remind to send text messages and keeping in touch face to face on Zoom.
Check out his post Effective Youth Ministry During the Corona Virus

Hosting a Text Message Bible Study

Here is a simple way to do a Bible Study completely by text message that we shared a while back.

Text Message Bible Study

Ministry Architects Hour of Free Consulting

Ministry Architects is offering a free hour of consulting for you or your staff during this time. They are a great group with years of ministry and consulting experience which would be helpful as we do ministry during this time.

Ministry Architects Free Hour of Consulting

Youth Group Game – 13

If you are looking for an easy game to do via video chat then I think the game 13 would be perfect. It requires no set up, just the ability to talk to each other.

How To Play 13

Zoom Games for Youth Groups

Here is a collection of games you can do while you are using zoom to connect with students.

Zoom Youth Group Games

Using Zoom for Small Groups

With social distancing in effect everyone is looking for ways to conduct small groups, committees and even staff meetings online. One of the best ways seems to be Zoom. Nick Far has done a great job in explaining what Zoom is and provides a tutorial on how you can set it up to use for your ministry.

How to Set up Online Small Groups Using Zoom

More to come…

These are just a few of the resources I found and was able to pull together. I’d love to add to the list. Please share any that you have with me and I’ll add them on.