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They loved it. I loved it because it required little set-up for me.
Here's how you play:
(for a group of about 30 youth - depending on your size you may need to add more policemen)
Before you start: choose a place to be the jail. (We used the sanctuary and turned on only a few lights to illuminate the jail area.) Let the student know where the jail is.
Choose 3 people to be police. Everyone else are Christians
The goal of the police is to get all the Christians into the Jail
The Christians are trying to get to the "safe house" or church.
One of the police will be an Underground Christian though. His or her goal is to secretly lead the Christians to the church.
The easiest way to determine who will be the Underground Christian is to have three slips of paper. On two slips of paper write "police" on the third slip of paper write "Underground Christian."
Let the police choose these slips at random. Make sure to tell them not to show their paper to any of the other police. If they do the Underground Christian runs the chance of being found out - meaning they can be arrested and put in jail by the regular police.
Give all the Christians about 5 minutes to hide before allowing the police to start finding them.
If a police finds a Christian they must escort them to jail. *note that I had to make a rule that Christians cannot run away from the police - they had to go without fighting.
As soon as all three police are allowed to search for the Christians - the Underground Christian must choose a location that will be considered the Church. They do this at this point in the game so that 1)the police won't know where the Church is - and 2) so the Christians don't all run to the safe-house to hide. (making the game extremely short!)
The police arrest people and take them to jail while the Underground Christian tries to get all the Christians to the Church.
Christians can "escape" from jail by being tagged by a fellow Christian. But note - if either Christian is caught by a police while trying to escape they both must go to jail.
The game is won by the police if they successfully capture all the Christians and put them in jail (or capture a percentage of them)
The game is won by the Christians if they all successfully arrive at the Church (or a certain percentage of them)
few things to note
* so that youth were not just sitting around once they found the Church and were safe - I encouraged them to free people from jail -without getting caught. (if they got caught - they had to go to jail)
* police cannot "raid" the Church. Christians are safe - as long as they are in the Church.
* the Underground Christian can be captured by the police if the police find out who it is.
*make sure you have adequate adult supervision in all areas of the church
* I locked any doors that I did not want my youth to go into.
*this game is 100% more fun if played in the dark!
have fun playing and give me your version of Underground Church
1 comments:
We've played it like this a few times but then I talked to some other folks and they said the version we usually played was actually some other game we just coined as Underground Church.
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