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Foot Party - a themed youth night!

Here's a fun youth night with a challenge and only using your feet! Great for smaller groups and small spaces. Advertise the event and emphasise that bare feet will be required. Don't explain too much, build the anticipation! Girls should be wearing jeans or trousers.

Remember that in some cultures this themed evening cannot be used. As always, be enthusiastic and join in yourself. Ask everyone to remove their shoes at the beginning of the evening.

FOOT SIGNING

Give each young person a felt tip marker and tell them they have one minute to get as many signatures on one foot as possible. When the time is up, go around and count them, to find the winner. Remember not to emphasise the winning but the fun. Interaction, building relationships, co-operation, working together are the goals of the themed games, leading to a linked time of teaching and discussion.

Leading by example - more food for thought

'We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.' Malcolm Gladwell

'Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.' Harold S. Geneen

'The youth worker is not primarily a talker or organiser, he is a model, a person who by the power of his Christian example motivates a dedication to Jesus Christ.' Lawrence Richards

'Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.' Albert Schweitzer

'We must become the change we want to see in the world.' Mahatma Gandhi