As you’re planning your fall youth group activities, don’t just default to the same-old same-old. We have a list of five fun, impact-driven youth group activities to get your teens growing in relationship with God and each other, as well as sharing the Gospel, this fall!
1. Serve at a food drive.
Fall is a great opportunity to invite your students to serve people in need in your community. Many cities have local food banks or shelters you can partner with to plan this event, and rallying your students behind the cause of loving others in Jesus’s name will make the impact of the event reverberate long past the fall season.
2. Hold a bonfire worship night.
Adding a worship night in between your usual weekly youth group activities can be a great way to encourage your students’ individual relationships with Jesus. Fall is an ideal time of year to do an outdoor bonfire, so borrow someone’s backyard and host a powerful worship night that students can invite their friends to.
3. Visit a corn maze.
We’ve got to add at least one classic fall youth group activity to this list! A corn maze is a tried-and-true event that helps students get to know each other better, problem-solve together, and hopefully have lots of laughs along the way. You can add your own flair with a talk about Jesus or a shared meal. Either way, this is an enjoyable way to cultivate community between the teens in your group.
Pro tip: Be sure to check if the corn maze has a “haunted” theme after a certain time in the evening, and plan accordingly if that isn’t a good fit for your group.
4. Plan a board game night.
Everyone loves a good board game, and an indoor board game night is an excellent fall youth group activity for when the weather cools down.
You can get creative with this one. Do a tournament-style board game night with your whole group, complete with a bracket and an ultimate winner. Or, plan board game nights with smaller groups based on grade or gender. However you plan it, this is a fun time to foster the relationships between your leaders and students. Plus, it’s a super-approachable event for teens to invite their unsaved friends to!
5. Join the Day of Global Youth Evangelism.
The Day of Global Youth Evangelism is like the Swiss Army knife of youth group activities, because it simply does it all. It will help students:
- gain a vision for the lost people around them.
- learn to share the Gospel clearly and relationally.
- become confident in the power of the Gospel.
- join a global movement with local impact
If these sound like results you would like for your students, then mark your calendars for November 8, 2025. Event registration is FREE and comes with on-demand evangelism training videos in either English, Spanish, or Portuguese, as well as free tools and resources to make planning your group’s event simple and effective. This movement is about mobilizing teens, so if you would rather come up with other creative ways to get teens out on the streets sharing the Gospel, that’s OK too!
No activity is complete without the Gospel.
The five goals of these five fall youth group activities are to help students:
- get familiar with the Gospel message.
- relate deeply to Jesus.
- serve others.
- become the body of Christ to each other.
- have fun.
Take these activity ideas and make them your own as you continue to build your Gospel Advancing ministry!
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12
