
About this resource
Long Story Short Pop-Up: a Discipleship Tool for Youth Ministry SPIRITUAL HABIT: Share Your Story AGE GROUP: Students This activity is designed to help teenagers practice the spiritual habit of sharing your story. Because if we want to grow spiritually, we need to make faith a regular, everyday, go-to topic of conversation as we learn to connect our stories with God's story and then share our stories with others. Sharing faith stories can be challenging for teenagers, but Long Story Short: The Pop-Up is designed to make story telling easier, more fun, and much more creative. This one-day event includes interactive stations where students will explore their personal journeys through art, poetry, photography, crafts, and more. Each station is designed to help them reflect on what they've learned or experienced and express their stories in meaningful ways. By the end of the event, students will have spent time reflecting on their own stories and walk away with tangible creations to help them share with friends. All our discipleship activities are built to be flexible! You can use this activity in a variety of ways with just a little bit of modification, but here's how we recommend using this one: use this activity at a special event at church for one day.
What’s included
PLANNING
- Activity guide
- Shopping list
- Instructions for each station
- Blackout Poetry Stories: Art & Poetry Station
- Spiritual Growth Stories: Planting & Painting Station
- Video Storytelling: Multimedia Station
- String Art Stories: Art Station
- Story Jars: Craft Station
- The Long Story Short Mural: Art Station
GRAPHICS
- Editable graphics
- Title and background images in horizontal, square, and vertical formats
- Activity flyers