Incorporating hosts at mealtimes


Your host should know when the kitchen is


ready, give instructions and keep people on task, then be ready to announce when it’s time for sec- onds and communicate the cleanup instructions. Your host can incorporate fun ways to enhance


the meal experience. Maybe they dismiss tables using games or trivia. It might be your host’s job to announce results and winners from games and activities and award points. Consider how you might incorporate ques-


tions from chapel or Bible study or get tables interacting by reciting memory verses. Does your staff do skits or songs? Maybe a theme character in costume makes a surprise appear- ance to continue the storyline. With a few tweaks, your meals will have


consistency and intentionality. The staff who host meals will gain leadership skills and public speaking experience while taking ownership and exercising creativity. 


Abby Banfield has served at Grace Adventures Ministries (Mears, Michigan) since 2010. Currently, she is the program consultant, leading programs, developing new ideas and supporting activities on four unique campuses. Banfield has been a camp kid since the age of two and now raises her own three camp kids with her husband, Jonathan, who also works at Grace Adventures. Banfield is passionate about providing experiences for people to experience God and still lives up to her high school superlative, most enthusiastic!


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