How many of your husbands spend time thinking about how to recreate the show WIPEOUT for their own ministry? I swear I have the same conversation every Tuesday night when we watch this show.
Just wondering.
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I’m Amanda Maguire and I have been “Married to a Youth Pastor” for almost 12 years now. We have 3 kids, Dylan (8) and Molly (6) and Scotty (3). I worked in full-time youth ministry for 4 years, got married and got a “real job”, allowing me to continue to be a volunteer in youth ministry for another 4 years. We started having kids and now I’m just married to the Youth Pastor. I have great friends and a fun life! I have a passion and a calling for wives just like me, married to a Youth Pastor. I love to write. I love to do creative activities. I love to run. I love to shop. I love to dine out. And I would love time to do any of these things more.
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Amanda, we have to meet someday!:-) My husband loves this show so much it’s scary. Of course creating a human obstacle course complete with ‘Big Balls’ is his heart’s desire!
Oh my goodness!! Out here in redneck country we have a “mudbog” near our church and have actually brainstormed how we might pull it off…
Yep. It’s Wipeout, American Gladiators, and that new Hole in the Wall show that really get his wheels turning. I would never say this to my husband because it would make him want to do it even more, but… I really don’t think it can (or should) be done.
There must be some special gene that God puts inside YP’s that makes them crazy about this stuff. My husband and his best firend (former YP) spend hours working on this stuff. They also take ideas from some MTV challenge shows. I personally have found the Disney Channel Games to be a good source of inspiration. (Human Foosball was the best) These seem to be a little more appropriate for all types of kids (not so atheletic, etc.). These require thinking as well as physical ability.
OH MY GOODNESS!!! That is so funny! My husband absolutely has plans to recreate this show!
By the way, Amanda: Congratulations!!! Your family looks absolutely precious in the picture at the hospital!!!
Haha! My hubby says that whichever camp builds their own version of this course will be the camp our church goes to FOREVER!!!
hahahaha my husband actually is looking up the phone number to call the producers from this to see where they are and if we can go there for camp. He thinks the church will give him a large amount of money just to recreate it but I think they might laugh at him. No joke. Also that show “Hole in the wall” where people have to fit into weird shaped holes as they come flying at you, he wants to recreate that. That made me laugh to read that, glad all youth pastors think alike!
It’s unbelievably eerie how I can relate to all the above comments… Regarding the hole in the wall show… I’ve had probably a dozen conversations about what type of material would be best and how we could recreate it… Wipeout conversations only just started…
HA! Yeah we’re obsessed with the show too…my husband just desperately wants to be on the show. (I’ve been reading your blog for a while…just finally commenting!)
I think almost all youth pastors think this show is great! My husband included!
Ha! Ha! All of the above comments crack me up and I already commented!:-) All of those shows mentioned are my hubs fav., too! Did you watch the So I Survived a Japanese Game Show, too? It was so popular with my hubby that our two year old was going around the house yelling “Mah-je-day” (sorry, have no clue how to spell a japanese word so I spelled it phonetically instead)! I get so worried that occasional bad language will be heard by my little one, though, but otherwise…we just laugh when she sits and watches if fascination right along with her daddy.
I have to ask this: Do all of your husbands inhale insanely unhealthy amounts of Mt. Dew, as well?
not mt dew for mine… tho he did go through a year obsessed with the orange rock stars before kicking the habit… and yes it HAD to be the orange ones…
I bet all YP’s have some caffeinated drink they LIVE on…???
This might not be about wipeout, but I could use some help!
My husband, Peter, and I started a discussion this morning about mission trips. His youth group really wants to go on one. He was thinking SW United States, build a house, or something, and then go to Disneyland. I vocalized the bad taste I had in my mouth about this. I am fine with the idea of a mission trip, but something rubs me the wrong way about ending with Disneyland. It just seems…ironic, I guess. “Here – let’s build a house for people who have nothing and then we’ll celebrate our good deeds and reward ourselves by spending our time and money at Disneyland!” Quite frankly, we don’t deserve anything!
Am I way off? Peter even said, “They’re just high schoolers.” Maybe I’m being too “tough.” I don’t want them to be pious, sober monks the whole time…but Disneyland? I can’t decide if I dislike the idea of going to Disneyland or the idea of having a “fun” day at the end of a mission trip. Peter says every youth group book he’s read on mission trips and every mission trip he’s ever heard about or gone on has ended with a “fun” day. Fine. That’s the norm. Do we just have a “fun” day because everyone else does?
All YPs have warped minds & I seriously would think there was something wrong with my husband if he DIDN’T want to have something like this in the yard at the church! YPs minds aren’t wired like everyone elses!
lol. my husband can’t wait to try some of that stuff. i like the punching wall personally. lol
we have done 2 missions trips with our kids, 1 to las vegas and 1 to mexico, and we ended both with a fun day. it helps the kids unwind and gives them one more day to hang out with one another. a fun day at the end won’t take any thing away from why they are really on the trip, and if it does for 1 or 2 kids than they weren’t on the trip for the right reason anyways.
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Totally, my husband has been thinking of ideas on how to do Hole in the Wall! Boys!
Cara, we have done a ton of missions trips and just like said before by Clarissa, we always do a fun day. We never did anything big like Disneyland (only because we had a lot of kids on the trip and thats just insane to try to control junior highers in that place). We go to the beach, or mini golfing, or a water park. As much as we would like to believe that they get everything out of just serving for a few days, teenagers thrive off of social situations and a day to chill is almost better for them to build relationships and get to connect after a week of serving together.
Cara I can see your point regarding ending a mission trip with a trip to Disney. Two extremes for sure. We have done mission trips for years and have always had a free day, usually mid week on Wednesday. But never anything as expensive as Disney. Sometimes hiking, small water park, movie and hanging out at the mall.
Thanks for your comments regarding mission trips. It’s really helpful to hear what other people do.
Hi Cara,
I’m an intercultural studies major and have led numerous missions trips. On long trips we always do a “fun day” in the middle…for instance when we went to Kenya for 2 weeks we went on a Safari, in Peru we went to the beach in Chile but I always try to keep it to something that will add to the trip rather than take the focus away from the service part. We go to Mexico to build houses every year over Spring Break and always avoid Disneyland because we don’t want everyone going home and talking about Disneyland rather than the building. The point of a ‘fun day’ should be to renergize and refocus the group not to take the focus of the trip. When we have taken smaller groups to Mexico (we don’t do this anymore because now we take about 200 to Mexico) we would do a dinner night at a taco stand and it is amazing how it can re-energize the group…it doesn’t have to be something big like Disneyland…they are high schoolers so they can handle just a missions trip without a “fun day”! Good luck! I think it great that you are doing a missions trip!
We go on missions trips … many which are even local… we serve a very low income area… and anything over $50 is to much… so we emphasize local serving with a global emphasis…and even though we are local… we always implement some “fun” activity to energize the group in the middle… ie. beach, camping, …. really depending on the issue we focus on
It’s great though that kids will “sacrifice” (many which come from unchurched homes.. and come on their own) to serve their community in a lock in type environment, where we also study an issue and bridge what we are doing localy, to what’s happening around the state, the nation, and the world…. But again the “fun” activity is really something that enhances their learning experience in a round about kind of way 
MISSION TRIPS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES!:)
(ex. camping or beach during an environmetal focused trip.. again depending on the social issue we target)