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 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 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 leader training. I’m always trying to make what we have better.
I’m in the same boat as ryan and nicole. Just looking to see what others are doing and where they are having successes.
hey man, I’m a WyldLife leader from the High Point, NC area.
I’d LOVE it if you could send me your resources!
btw, great job.
Just starting up a new area in CO. I would LOVE to see your resources if you don’t mind.
Courtney, I just email you some of them!
Hello, we are doing YL in the Czech Republic and this year we want to do the intensive 6 week training and continue with other training forleaders. This year we will have some Seniors as Student leaders too so i would love to hear your ideas. Thanks.
Lucie, that is great! Are you thinking about meeting once a week for 1-2 hours each time or something else? Let me know, I can email you my general leader training packet if you are interested. That normally takes 4-6 weeks to go through.
Hi I am actually leading a young lives team and was wondering if you can email me your leadership training material. God Bless!
Will do!
Would love to see any resources you have!! Thanks for this site – it is a great help
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Bay Area… just sent you an email. Hope that helps!