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One of the skills all youth leaders must acquire is the ability to borrow, tweak and steal from other youth leaders and ministries. As good as you are, and as good as your youth ministry is, there are always other leaders and ministries doing really good, cool and awesome stuff that you need to borrow, tweak and steal from in order to improve your own ministry.

I have personally borrowed, tweaked and stolen games, promotional methods, curriculum ideas, small group set ups, graphics, events, and names & themes.

I learned the game Diaper Dodge Ball from my long-time friend Doug. After attending a church while on sabbatical I decided to change the name of my summer Wednesday night Bible study from Back Yard Bible Study to Summer Nights. While on a college visit I was inspired by a girls dorm late night meeting that they called Sex & Chocolate; which I turned into a Sunday night, girls only, discussion on health, puberty, boys, dating and sex hosted by my female adult leaders, a health care professional, and a local school counselor. The chocolate came into play by building a chocolate buffet complete with a chocolate fountain. To counter balance that evening with my boys I hosted the same set up, only we served chicken on the grill and called it The Breast Sex Ever. (Not, really; we called it Man Up). And, every year, while at summer camp, I learn team building games that I use with both my students and my ministry team.

That is what this book is really about, me giving you permission to borrow, tweak and steal from me and my ministry.