This year… FYL! First Year Leader training
In my area we had no formal plan for recruiting and developing college freshman as leaders. I asked around in my state if anyone else was doing anything, I didn’t get a ton of feedback. I asked around nationally and I got a little more. Eventually a key person told me about the "premier" freshman program in the United States. They were kind enough to send me all their material.
I like planning and training and all that stuff a lot. (So much that now there is ylhelp.com haha) So I worked through all their material and my own and came up with "FYL" First Year Leading. We had a free kickoff retreat to the beach, free leadership camp in September and we met every Thursday night from 9:20PM until about Midnight at my house. The first semester it was pretty much a small group then the second semester we started including leadership training elements. The format was so simple: food, short game, worship, life story, then discuss the past week’s reading in the One Year New Testament (this is a GREAT tool).
This is separate from our traditional leader training we do each semester.
We have high school seniors, juniors and even sophomores who are saying they can’t wait to be a part of it. Most of their leaders are involved in FYL so it is contagious.
If you don’t have a plan for freshman in college, you should! Contact me if you need some ideas.
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I lead YL in a college town. There are
Ryan | June 17, 2008 | 6:48 amI lead YL in a college town. There are a lot of approaches for Freshman Fellowship/Leadership. I would love to hear more of yours and what material you use and a schedule of events and meetings for this fall. Thanks, ryan
ps–keep doing what your doing. It’s a great resource.
We had a good leadership program when I was in
Nicole | July 26, 2008 | 7:39 pmWe had a good leadership program when I was in college that I am using to give me ideas on how to grow my new college leaders. I’d love to see what you have and share what we did.
I would love to see what you have for college
Garrick | July 28, 2008 | 8:24 pmI would love to see what you have for college leader training. I’m always trying to make what we have better.
I'm in the same boat as ryan and nicole.
jon | August 19, 2008 | 9:41 amI’m in the same boat as ryan and nicole. Just looking to see what others are doing and where they are having successes.