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Gooooooaaaaaaaallllll! Just say that enough and you will probably have a fun club. With the World Cup coming up this is a no-brainer club that can include a lot of international flavor!

PS… As I am out of my local club for a little bit this semester I am posting all of our clubs each week (partially to remind my team haha!) If you want to fast forward and see them all then see this link. – Sean

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Everyone is looking for an opportunity to wear their footy PJs outside the house. It helps you justify the purchase you made at Target when you bought them. So, let’s have a club dedicated to PJs!

By the way the picture for this post is for YL people like the legendary Judy Wilson who really love dogs.

PS… As I am out of my local club for a little bit this semester I am posting all of our clubs each week (partially to remind my team haha!) If you want to fast forward and see them all then see this link. – Sean

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It is prom season! It is a great time to help students get creative in asking their dates to prom, helping with dresses, makeup, dinner, chaperoning, and more. At YLHelp we’ve posted several times before about doing a Mock Prom Club, but it is worth doing every year.

PS… As I am out of my local club for a little bit this semester I am posting all of our clubs each week (partially to remind my team haha!) If you want to fast forward and see them all then see this link. – Sean

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Thanks to our growing efforts in International South Young Life, we have been able to keep an eye on things that previously we would have missed. Fortunately our YL team in Taiwan spotted a recent product infringement of our new favorite pastime, Spikeball. Spikeball has been all the rage with new staff, forcing an announcement from the upcoming All Staff Celebration spokesperson, Angel Ruiz to say, “Hermanos, we now need a venue which has space for not only 5000+ staff, but also over 1000 Spikeball courts.” 

Do not fall for imitation Spikeball sets. If you look closely you can see the imitation spikeballs have actual spikes on them. The YLHelp team was able to locate a counterfeit example before it was painted yellow. Examine it carefully below to be able to spot the differences. To be on the safe side in future orders, please see the authentic post on Spikeball by our friends at the YLLeaderblog.

Imitation Spikeball

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I have a question for you, do you want to build a snowman? Well, not at YL summer camp. It is time to let it go. In an effort to “get ahead of things”, a source told us that a private meeting happened with representatives from both sides. Apparently the meeting didn’t start on the right note as the YL lead negotiator opened with, “I’m Denny and I like warm hugs.” Things just snowballed from there.

We can’t go into details, but Frozen camp sing-a-longs are now on the banned list, though the list is difficult to locate.

In lieu of Frozen, the “creative committee” at headquarters had a weekly series of conference calls, which were recorded for those who were not able to be on the call. Unfortunately, after the introductions on the call, there was no time left for the call. Another call was scheduled for the next hour but no one could hear each other since one person did not mute their phone. During the call the only thing people could hear was an AD on the team who was playing FIFA while taking care of their children. Do not fret, as there are plenty of alternatives to Frozen songs at camp.

-You can run with a “Melted” theme. Get the kitchen involved, it could be a lot of fun.

-Call it “273 Kelvin”, lots of the staff with degrees in engineering will think it is hilarious. But it might not catch on with everyone else and you might lose (kinetic) energy in the room.

-Just call it “Congelado”, the good folks down at Vida Joven will love it.

OK bye.

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Though 37 is the new 20, or so I keep telling myself, eventually we all get old. Even high school kids feel old. For instance, when the 17 year old senior in high school says, “man look at all these immature kids at my school, I’m too old for this… seriously.” Then he proceeds to go home at noon and eat a gogurt while watching anime on his computer while his mom does their laundry and pretty much everything else for him. In this celebration of getting older we are going to have Old Life Club. This is a little different from Old People Club, but not much different.

On a more serious note, you could do a good spin on the club in your talk “old life and new life…” with a  2 Cor 5:17 theme. 

PS… As I am out of my local club for a little bit this semester I am posting all of our clubs each week (partially to remind my team haha!) If you want to fast forward and see them all then see this link. – Sean

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With St Patrick’s day around the corner, we are doing a Sham Rock’in club. There are some amazing ideas here at the YL Leader Blog. Here is what we came up with. Best of luck! (Hey-O!)

PS… As I am out of my local club for a little bit this semester I am posting all of our clubs each week (partially to remind my team haha!) If you want to fast forward and see them all then see this link. – Sean

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I received a goldmine of Wyldlife club ideas from Ryan Weston, Area Director in Western Prince William, Virginia. As Ryan told me, these clubs are mixer heavy, which is a huge help for WL. For any WL teams out there that don’t have their clubs planned out for the rest of the semester, I’d suggest just taking some of these and running with them. This will allow you to focus on contact work, one-on-ones, campaigners and so much more. This is a huge help from Ryan, thanks!

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Ok, the real name of this club is “poop” club, but I just couldn’t allow myself to title the post with that. One of our great leaders (certainly not the same person in the picture above) has really really wanted to do this club for a long time. So due to his persistence we gave in. In the past I’ve given in to other ideas I wasn’t fond of, including Kentucky Derby Club, Harry Potter Club, Country Club, and others. But hey, it is all for the kids right? This sophomoric frivolity also balances out my nerdy academic theology side to complete confuse pretty much everyone I know. 

Hope this club doesn’t stink! Hey-o!

PS… As I am out of my local club for a little bit this semester I am posting all of our clubs each week (partially to remind my team haha!) If you want to fast forward and see them all then see this link. – Sean

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Our club is in a little short-term state of flux for our location this semester so we thought through some creative options about our location. One of the things we wanted to do was one of the old fashioned “Rooftop” clubs. In the first years of YL they held some clubs on the top of buildings, very very safe buildings with guardrails that would meet the strictest of safety standards of course. But, in our area we really don’t have very many tall buildings so that option was out.

The next option? Have a club in the back of a U-Haul of course! Now, just to be clear, we are not going to be moving the U-Haul at all for the club, it is simply just a cool and unexpected room, so to speak, to have club. We will park it in the school parking lot, bring a generator and then have most of the club in the back, but some of it out around the truck too. Below are our plans… enjoy!

PS… As I am out of my local club for a little bit this semester I am posting all of our clubs each week (partially to remind my team haha!) If you want to fast forward and see them all then see this link. – Sean

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