Help for Young Life Leaders NOW

We sold our house and are looking to move closer to the school where we do club. It is a lifelong dream to live super-close to the school. We want our house to be a hub of club, campaigners, Friday night football tailgate parties, … you get the idea. 

We find ourselves asking, could we possibly be too close? Some fiends have cautioned us that we don’t know what we are getting ourselves into. Some of these friends understand YL and some don’t.

Just so you know, we have three kids ages 5 and under. We are currently renting the house we sold from the new owner for a little while.

Does anyone out there have any experiences with this?

• Pros?
• Cons?
• How close is too close?
• How far is too far to be helpful?
• Anything we should consider?

We could use your help. Thanks!

Here are a couple links from my friend Andi who is on staff in NorCal. 

www.biblemap.org

A very cool Google map organized by Bible book, chapter and verse, "It would be great for campaigners".

www.bibleplan.org

Lots of leaders have never read through the Bible, but want to. This can help you get a plan to do that.

I can tell which search terms lead people to this blog. Here are a couple funny ones…

"hannah montana skit"

I get TONS of hits from this one. I guess it is because I suggested doing a Hannah Montana skit called Banana Montana. I actually know clubs across the country that did it. Pretty funny.

"2af475cc87a808f4530506779617002508a0e1eb4c917979"

Hmmm I guess a frustrated YL leader realized either

1) Had to do the club talk in like 5 minutes and starting hitting their head against the keyboard and ended up at ylhelp.com

2) They got diss’ed and stood-up by 7th graders who were "too busy to go see a movie" for the millionth time and so the leader pretended each key on the keyboard was like bubble wrap and started popping it to kill time

3) Now leaders who speak hexadecimal are looking for club help.

"bible verse about summer camp"

Seriously? Unless I missed something in Apocrypha, neither Moses nor Jesus or anyone else in the Bible went to summer camp. 

"does Brandon Heath have a girlfriend?"

I’m friends with Brandon, but I’m sorry to say that this blog has nothing to do with Brandon Heath or his girlfriend. Last I heard, he didn’t. For some reason girls just don’t like his music (?) Just kidding. On another note, you should buy his new CD. He’s a great guy. 

I hope your summer was great. I hope to post some ideas and lessons learned over the summer from camp, assignments, campaigners, etc.

In the mean time, the Fall semester is upon us. In my area school started this week and I have been meeting and catching up with leaders non-stop.

With club looming, I know we all are having team club planning sessions. My club had one last week. I’ll be posting our new clubs as we prepare them.

I took some time to put together a club planner with Monday club dates and an entire semester of clubs planned. I did this using some of the clubs we used last year. If you are looking for ideas, I suggest you print this out and bring it to your team meeting. If you have ideas or clubs from last year, send them my way so we can share them.

Enjoy!

Fall Club Planner and Full Club Plans

(Note: some of the details on each club may not perfectly fit the week. For example the club talks are not in order on the individual club sheets.)

Chance are, you are having a team meeting very soon to catch up and plan a ton of stuff. I’ve attached what we did last week with our team.

What do you do at your team meetings? What works? What doesn’t?