10,000 Questions
Everyone has questions, and we are on a mission to gather 10,000 questions about God, life, and faith from students all over the US. We desire to listen, learn, and through our answers show the goodness of Jesus.
Age 17,
North Canton, OH
Age 18,
Monterey, CA
Age 17,
Española, NM
Age 18,
Kent, OH
Age 17,
North Canton, OH
Age 18,
Monterey, CA
Age 17,
Española, NM
Age 18,
Kent, OH
Get Involved
Collect Questions
We want your student’s voices in our project! Every group of students aged 13-19 is our target audience. We’ve been in public schools, Christian schools, youth groups, youth conferences, juvenile detention centers, and after school clubs. If you to get to know your community better through their questions, let’s team up!
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Request a Question Box
Description
Already planning to do a question night with your group? Or interested in hosting one? Whether your group is 3 or 300, we’ll provide everything you need to collect questions from the students in your group.
WE PROVIDE
- Either all-digital or hand-written question cards
- Instructions on how to use the box
- A mailer for returning completed question forms
- 10KQ stickers for your group
- Post-collection follow up with insights specific to your community
COST
Free.
Just drop us a donation afterwards if you feel so inclined!
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Host a Live Question Event
Description
Invite us out! Our desire is to create a space for students to ask questions, find answers, and ignite a culture of open conversation that leaders can build off of. We’d love to come to you and make a whole night of it!
WE PROVIDE
- Speaker/host, materials, online platform
- Pre-event planning meeting
- Post-event report with questions collected, categorized and compared with overall averages
- Post-event debrief call reviewing report with observations and integration coaching specific to your community
COST
Honorarium + Travel (Grants available, please reach out!)
faq
Question Nights
What does a typical question event look like?
A member of our team will start the event by introducing the project and how grateful we are to have the student’s voices represented in it. If the setting allows, we also like to share briefly about how Jesus responds to questions from Matthew 11.
Each student receives a handout where they can submit as many questions as they’d like–these cards are collected at the end of the night. For the remainder of the time, we use an online platform where students can submit their questions following different prompts, their questions appear on a screen, and are then voted on by those in the room.
The questions with the highest number of votes will rise to the top, and those are the questions that get answered live. We usually do 3 or 4 rounds of prompts, and end the time with a quick wrap up by either our team member or the group lead.
Who answers questions live?
We are happy to answer questions, but we prefer to set up local leadership to answer questions and speak directly to the students they serve. This typically looks like our team emcee-ing the question submission, and posing the questions to be answered to the youth worker, Pastor, or (a favorite!) a panel.
Is everything anonymous?
Yes, all questions submitted are anonymous, this is very important to us. We don’t collect any names, email addresses, etc., either through the digital platform or handouts. We give the option on the handout to submit your age and zip code, but it is not required.
How long does it go?
An hour is the sweet spot—and typically goes fast due to how interactive it is. However, we can easily do a little more or a little less.
What other formats are there?
We’ve done events in public school classrooms, juvenile detention centers, living rooms, around bonfires, at youth conferences, and at large and small youth groups and after school programs. While above is a description of a ‘typical’ night, we can build a high-tech or low-tech option as needed based on the needs of the group, as well as adjust the flow of the event as needed. We want all kinds of students represented in this project, and we know that requires flexing to different types of environments–let’s talk about what would work best for your group!
Question night
Testimonials
I truly think that this is an event that every student needs to attend! Not only is it creating a safe place for students to ask hard questions anonymously, but it does so with the intent of answering those questions. Kids are always on guard both with family, friends, and spiritual leaders because the culture they grow up in today is trying to force a lot on them without them getting to ask the questions that really matter. Our students who came loved the event, and because some of the questions were so good, we got the chance to continue talking about them afterwards too! “10,000 questions” is taking this challenge head on, and I am so excited to see what the Lord does through it!
This event with Val was so important and needed. Questions are at the core of Jesus' ministry and it is life-giving when we make space for them with our students!
Find an Answer
Check out our podcast for full-length Q+A episodes, or check out YouTube or our socials for specific questions.