Fun Friend-Making Activities for Adult Groups

Fun Friend-Making Activities for Adult Groups offers three types of activities to help leaders of small adult groups and Sunday school classes transform cautious strangers into caring friends. "Icebreakers" help people learn each other's names, interests, hobbies, and the like. "Camaraderie-Builders" promote a sense of group unity and help people discover their place within the group. "Friend-Makers" invite people to share their joys and struggles and to commit to helping each other through all the situations of life. This book also includes numerous "Friendly Facts" (quotes and statistics helpful for small group leaders) and "Relational Reminders" (sidebars that provide tips on being sensitive to and supportive of everyone, even those with special circumstances, during an activity). In short, Fun Friend-Making Activities for Adult Groups provides everything small group leaders will need to build, develop, and deepen relationships between the members of their groups.-- While most books for small adult groups simply offer lessons with little or no focus on group relationships, this book provides adult-appropriate relationship-building activities and a plan for developing and deepening relationships within a group thus giving leaders both the tools and the blueprint for transforming strangers into close, caring friends.-- Icebreakers are generally five to fifteen minutes long, Camaraderie-Builders run fifteen to twenty-five minutes in length, and Friend-Makers will usually fill the majority of an hour-long meeting which allows groups to supplement their regular meetings with a relationship-building activity or to devote their entire meeting to some relationship-orientedissue.-- Because the activities are relationship-focused and active in an adult-appropriate way they can be used with any Christian adult group, including Sunday school classes, Bible study groups, church boards or committees, ministry teams, or even retreat participants.-- The majority of Camaraderie-Builders and all the Friend-Makers include Bible study so adults can learn and apply biblical principles to their relationships within the group.