Welcome to the Stewardship Card Game: Offering All OUT?
Are you doing your “Offering All OUT?” Think you don’t have anything left to give, think again—
you’ve got more than you realize!
Like “Apples to Apples,” players make the best or most creative match to the card on the table
with the hand they’ve been dealt.
Assembly: Print this document and cut apart the cards. Keep the blue tinted “Opportunity” cards
separate from the other “Offering” cards. Shuffle these other cards together, including the “Wild
Cards.” You are welcome to add your own “Opportunity” and Offering Cards.
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Deal everyone (up to four players) five cards each.
Set a timer for 15 minutes (10 minutes for experts)
Draw and put an “Opportunity” card in the center.
Have everyone take turns putting down anything that can “solve” the problem and tell
“how.” Players can put down more than one card on a turn to address the perceived
problem or add to the offering of another player. If, for example, someone wants to offer
a shirt to make socks, another player might offer the scissors card to help. Wild cards are
used as the object that a player names out loud as a solution. It can be something already
pictured in the deck, but the goal is to try to come up with new or more elaborate things.
Exception: Money or anything that can be used as money CANNOT be named.
If there is no card a player feels he/she can play, the turn goes to the next player.
At the end of his/her turn, the player draws another card from the deck.
After each player has had a chance to play in a round, a new “Opportunity” card is turned
over and the play begins again.
If the deck runs out, the Offering cards played in earlier turns are re-shuffled and become
the deck used.
The object of the game is to play all the “Opportunity” cards before time runs out.
Players can work in teams or have others help them use their cards.
Tips: Remember there is more than one solution to a problem—there can be different reasons
why a child is not wearing socks or a house’s yard is overgrown. If a child’s pet is lost, for instance,
this could mean the pet has died or is missing. Some solutions might be to give a teddy bear or
make MISSING Pet posters to hang in the neighborhood.
There can also be different uses for objects—seeds can be eaten or grown, a net can be for a
game or to hold something. Parts of object can also be used—a car has a floor mat that could be
used, balloons have string—even the parts a bicycle can be the solution.
Some says he/she is lonely
This person has not eaten lunch
This child is not wearing socks
The house’s yard is overgrown
The car has a leak
Someone is in the hospital
Someone needs diapers
The new phone isn’t working
A child lost his/her pet
Teenagers are banned from
hanging out at the mall
The fire damaged the chairs
Rain threatens the charity event
The family has stopped coming
to church
Someone has been the victim of
a crime
There’s a fight in the playground