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Team-Building Games for Church Staff

Church staff need to work together as a team, just like the members of any other office staff. However, the high emotional and physical stress that may accompany working in a church requires that staff members have healthy ways to reduce stress and enjoy working together. Team-building games offer a healthy atmosphere for building cooperative strategies through enjoyable activities.

Blanket Toss
- Divide the church staff into two equal teams and give each team a blanket. Position the staff members around the perimeter of the blanket so they can pull it taut. Place a small beach ball in the center of one of the blankets and have the team members toss the ball from one blanket to the other, Alternatively, you can use bath towels to create smaller teams, which will create more teams with larger church staffs or a more manageable task in extremely small church staffs.
Minefield
- Talk about things that get in the way of reaching goals or helping congregants. Use the church hall or parking lot to set up an obstacle course representing these hurdles, using items like music stands, small pulpits, chairs and toys from the nursery. Pair church staff members up and allow them to decide who walks the course first. Blindfold one team member and have the other talk his teammate through the course.
Verses and Hymns
- Acting hymns out can help church staff to bond.
  
  Have each team member list three to five favorite verses or short hymn lyrics. Remove duplicates and cut the remaining entries apart and put them in an offer plate or bag. Divide the staff into teams of three to five members. Teams take turns drawing an entry and determining how to act it out for the other teams to guess. Each team has 90 seconds to discuss and begin the acting and the other teams have 60 seconds to guess the right answer. Alternatively, the teams may draw representations instead of acting.
Church Spirit
- Place craft items such as construction paper, scissors, glue, glitter, markers, tissue paper, play dough and magazines on a table. Divide church staff into teams of three to five. Instruct teams to use the craft items to construct a sculpture that represents church spirit to them. Teams have 45 minutes to complete their sculpture. Invite the teams to share their church spirit sculpture with the rest of the teams.
Truth and Lies
- Tell two truths and one lie.
  
  Have each church staff member make a list of three things about themselves. Two of the items are lies and one is true. Sign the list, so the team will know whom the list describes. The rest of the staff must determine which item is true and which are false. For example, the staffer may list grew up in Alabama, baptized at age 8 and has read the Bible all the way through.

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