I’m sure some of you have used YouTube creatively for club. If you have any ideas, let me know!

Here is the file and all the videos you need for this club:

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It has a lot of explanation included in it, including thoughts for a club talk to go with the theme. Thanks Jen!

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Below are his club plans from last semester and the coming semester. He said that the plans are based around a G6-8 (WyldLife) club with notes on the side for the high school club.  The talks have the same content for both clubs.

There is a lot of good info and some ideas for talks with scriptures included. His plans include some of his team’s key ideas for the semester and even some thoughts on dealing with behavior issues. Thanks a ton Dougie!

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Patrick from Wooster, Ohio sent me his plans from last semester. They include song selections too. I recognize pretty much all the games and mixers, but not everything on the list. If you have questions, I recommend looking at YLPlaybook or asking the comments section. Maybe Patrick can chime in as needed.

PS If you have any great ideas let me know! smcgever (at) pv.younglife (dot) org

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For a long time I have observed that YL leaders often don’t have to “read up” much on youth culture or scour the web or magazines to see what is “hot”. The good YL leader already knows because of our front-line involvement. In fact we could probably be reporters for all those websites and magazines if we needed some extra money. I will add that we can learn much from other people’s helpful analysis.

So back to the story… One of the ideas that our leaders brainstormed was to do “Jersey Shore Club”. If you work with kids, you know what that show is all about. At first glance it could be fun and honestly I bet it would be a huge hit. The games would be a crack-up and the skits would be easy. I thought the guys would have fun grease-ing up their hair and wearing tight shirts. Then I started to think about how the girls would dress and what kind of attitude they would adopt for the club. That instantly killed the idea in my mind.

In my application of the YL club as a tool, it occasionally straddles the line of “should we really do that”? In my 15+ years of YL I have made numerous mistakes with things I’ve tried and I feel like I have struck a good balance of “edgy” and “above-reproach”. Maybe there is a way to use this idea in a way that makes sense, like in a skit or program that mocks the whole thing. But in our club a lot of kids dress up and play up the whole idea of whatever it is we are doing. So it is a no-brainer. Just like the old SNL skits says… not gonna do it.

How do you decide where the line is? What lessons have you learned?

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All that to say, we are doing Olympic Club and I thought I’d pass along our plans. Enjoy!

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So this Monday we are going to do Super Bowl club with the Super Bowl being the following weekend. Our plans are posted below. Since we haven’t done the club yet, I won’t make any promises on this one.

You could also do a mini football game. Guys could play on their knees and girls could stand. Another option is to use fabric to tie a person’s legs together at the knees to play “penguin football”.

Do you have any YL Super Bowl traditions?

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My friend Hugh sent me their plans for the semester and they are great! I like how they mix up club with some different things like a concert and even doing club at the high school soccer game!

Enjoy! Thanks Hugh!

PS Certainly some of you have plans from last semester or new ones you are putting together right now. Why don’t you share the love and send them my way! Send them to smcgever (at) pv.younglife (dot) org.

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But I dug up some more stuff too. Enjoy!

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We did a really fun club based on things old people do. No offense if you are old or enjoy these old people things. Kids dressed up old and we had a great time. The wheelchair races were on the edge of chaos. Be careful!

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