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Youth Ministry Games : Underground Church

1. Underground Church Submitted by: on October 8, 2000
Materials: flashlights
Messy Rating: No Sweat     Duration: 40+minutes    Cost: $0.00

This is a hide-and-go-seek type game that needs to be played somewhere with many rooms. We play at out pastor's house, but if your church building has many rooms that's fine as well. You play in rounds and you can play as many rounds as you want.
First, select a jail. Turn off all lights except a dim one in the jail. Then choose at least three volunteers (according to the size of your group) which will be the police. Put them in the jail. Everyone else are Christians. They must go hide throughout the building while the police are getting ready. Next get some small pieces of paper, as many as the number of policemen. Write "police" on all put one of the papers, and write "undercover Christian" on the remaining piece. Fold them all up and pass them out. The police must look at their paper and may not let any of the other police know what it says. The undercover Christian is a cop that is on the side of the Christians. He/she secretly decides which room will be the church.After this is done, the Christians get a few more minutes to hide, and then the game begins.
The game is the Christians vs. the police. The Christians' goal is to get everyone (including the undercover christian) into the church at once. In order to do this, the undercover christian must secretly spread the word of where the church is. The undercover christian may either let people free or send them to jail. He/she must not let the other police know that he is the undercover christian. If they figure it out, they can send him to jail. Meanwhile , the police's goal is to get all of the christians in jail at once, by tagging them and escorting them to jail if they wish. The policemen must keep their flashlights on at all times, and flashlights for christains are optional. Free christians may tag jailed christians to set them free. So if the Christians all get in the church, they win. If the policemen get everyone in jail, they win.
You can add many variations to thee game. Play around to see how it works best with your group. Once we made the rule that two Christians may team up on a cop and send them way upstairs for one minute, but that didn't work out too well for us. If you have any questions, drop me a line.

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