69 QUESTIONS TO USE WITH CAMPAIGNERS

1. What would you do if you were given a million dollars?

2. What are some qualities of a good friend?

3. Name two of your strengths and two of your weaknesses.

4. Show three things in your wallet which describe you and why.

5. Make up a telegram saying anything from anybody.

6. If you were president for a day, what things would you do and what things would you change?

7. If your house were burning down, what things would you grab to take out and why?

8. What is your biggest source of joy and what has been your biggest struggle in the last month?

9. What is your favorite thing to eat?

10. What was your favorite room in your house when you were growing up and why?

11. Tell us about the scariest moment in your life.

12. What is the saddest moment in your life?

13. What is the happiest moment in your life?

14. What is your greatest fear and why?

15. What is your favorite hobby or thing to do?

16. What place in the world would you most like to visit and why?

17. Name the members of your family. What is each one of them like? Do you get along well with them?

18. What would you like to be doing ten years from now?

19. Draw a picture representing your life with four symbols. Make the symbol most near the center the most important aspect or interest in your life and then progressively out.

20. Tell about your best vacation.

21. Tell about your favorite game when you were a child.

22. What was your most satisfying accomplishment during these ages and where did you live: before you were 8, between the ages of 9 and 12, and between 13 and 18?

23. List two words that you would use to describe yourself, two words your friends would use to describe you, and two words your parents would use to describe you.

24. What food do you absolutely hate to be served?

25. Do you feel appreciated and understood, and do you laugh much? Explain.

26. Why did you come to Young Life the first time?

27. What are some colors that describe you, and why?

28. If you had a free day, how would you most like to spend it?

29. If you could be anything, what would you most like to be?

30. What is an animal that describes you and why?

31. Tell us about the first time you ever swam, smoked, danced and/or played hooky.

32. You have five minutes on TV to tell the world one thing. What would it be?

33. What person has affected your life the most? Name some of his or her characteristics. What things did he/she do for you?

  1. What do you find most boring about your life?
  1. Answer the following questions on a piece of paper. Turn it in to the leader, the leader reads out a word, and the group guesses whose it is. Then the correct person explains the answer.
  2. Color that reveals your personality
  3. An animal that portrays the way you see yourself
  4. A song that illustrates your philosophy of life
  5. A car that symbolizes you in some way
  6. A comic strip or TV character that you identify with
  1. Tell three things about yourself, two of them true, one false. Let the group guess which is false. Afterwards the person will explain why each one was true and false.
  2. Imagine yourself going on a trip to an uncivilized continent to start life over. Think of ten things you would want to take with you. Shorten this list to five. Share why you choose only these five.
  1. Tell about three movies that made a deep impression on you. Tell the character or scene that stood out in your mind. If you could make a film for young people, what would you say in the film?
  1. Each person name ten things that he is in ten seconds.
  1. What kind of person do you look for in a friend, and what kind or person lets you come out of your shell?
  1. What do you like most and least about this group? What would you like to see this group become? What would you do to make this happen?
  1. Divide the group into partners of two. Each person takes five minutes to tell all about himself to his partner. After the ten minutes is up, and the group reconvenes, each person introduces his partner to the group.
  1. Look over the possessions you have with you or on you, and select three things that you would classify as very valuable to you. Tell why.
  1. If God was standing right in front of you now, what would you most like to ask Him and tell Him?
  1. What was the highest point or happiest point of your life in the last twelve months?
  1. If you could bring one souvenir from your home that reminds you of an unforgettable time or experience in your life, what would you bring and why?
  1. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change and why?
  1. If you knew you could not fail, what is the one thing you would like to do in your life?
  1. Tell us about the most embarrassing moment in your life.
  1. When is the time that you have felt closest to God, and where were you?
  1. When was the time that you felt you really needed God and why?
  1. Share with the group the name of one of the friends you would go to if you had a real need and explain why you would confide little or much in that person.
  1. If you knew you only had one year to live, how would you spend that year?
  1. When is the time that you feel most alone?
  1. What kind of car would you pick for each one in your group, and why? What kind of car would you pick for yourself and why?
  1. Tell us about the earliest thing that you remember.
  1. What is the biggest disappointment that you have ever had?
  1. Who was your childhood hero?
  1. Where do you go when you really want to be alone and think?
  1. Is it harder for you to: (a) give a compliment or receive a compliment (b) see the good in others or see the good in yourself (c) believe you are okay or believe the other person is okay?
  1. What are your thoughts about death?
  1. What do you do to get out of a down mood?
  1. Do you see yourself as a leader or a follower and why?
  1. Who is or was your favorite teacher and why?
  1. Who is your favorite movie star and why?
  1. What is a sounds that portrays you and why?
  1. Give three adjectives or words that characterize the person you want to be.
  1. One person in the group remains quiet while the others focus their attention upon him and each person in the group mentions one strength that they have seen in the silent person. Each person in the group will have the chance to be the one who’s affirmed.
  1. Are you a (a) talker or listener (b) doer or thinker (c) spender or saver

(d) optimist or pessimist (e) pioneer or settler? Explain.