Help for Young Life Leaders NOW

My friend Joey and Alex are trying something this semester I thought would be worth passing along.

Like most clubs they have a time each week when they introduce any new kids. In each club they will award one point to either the guys or the girls based on who has more new kids that week. At the end of the semester the gender that has more points will get $5 each in the camp store or snack bar.

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During our leadership club planning brainstorming meeting we came up with a ton of fun ideas. As you can tell, we have a lot of theme clubs, which the students really enjoy. Sometimes the themes having something to do with current events (i.e. Super Bowl Club, Olympics Club, Prom Club, etc.), other times they have to do with things the kids are into (i.e. Harry Potter Club, Jerk Club), and other times they really don’t have any relevance (i.e. Yellow Club, Bubblewrap Club).

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For those of you on Twitter, like me, there is a fantastic resource for YL ideas. I’ve been following it for a few months. It was quiet for a little while but has recently been posting some great ideas. I recommend you check it out!

https://twitter.com/younglifeideas

We just finished being a part of four weekend camps for our area! They were great, the Lord did amazing things. I also recently posted about using cabin time questions at weekend camp.

We require every leader to go through leadership training to be a leader and then we do separate trainings for leading at weekend camps and weeklong summer camp trips. I recently refined our weekend camp leader training packet. I thought I’d share it with you all. Enjoy!

PS… If you have any reflections from the Fall semester, things you learned, things you would never do again, etc. Pass them along! Leave a comment or email me smcgever (at) pv.younglife.org.

I recently spoke at a YL weekend camp. One of the best pieces of YL camp speaking advice I ever received was to plan your cabin time questions before you plan your talk. Obviously you tweak them after you study the scripture and the rest of the talk planning process, but you really want to begin with the end in mind.

Even as a speaker, I feel the most critical part of the gospel proclamation and formation is in the cabin time discussion. I’m sure you have seen miracles happen in front of your eyes in the midst of cabin time, I know I have.

I have posted cabin time questions before here, and below are the ones I recently used. If you are interested in more cabin time type questions you can also look here.

This was sent to me from my friend Rob in Santa Barbara…

Here is a video with a couple interesting club ideas. I follow this guy’s blog, its a pretty good one that you may enjoy.

The first idea is a little creepy.

The second ideas starts with a standard pizza Olympics, but the other ideas with text messaging are pretty good! I like idea about having kids text their favorite fast food place  and then you have their cell number, name and you can take them out to that place later. 

The idea of doing a talk under the stars would be a fun one to do to mix it up.

The Tarzan one probably wouldn’t work in my club, but maybe in a WL club.

His next idea is a standard indoor scavenger hunt that we used to do a ton back in the day at camps. Enjoy!

Here are two fun video videos my friends made. One is to promote weekend camp, the other was for a YL College camp.

Want to know how to be a super fantastic YL staff person? Make your leaders heroes! That is exactly what my friend Amber has done in Malibu, CA.

Here is an example of some of her work. Great job Amber! Enjoy!

I got this note from my friend Megan from Memphis, TN.

“We are lucky enough to have a very talented guitar player at our club every week. However, if you aren’t that fortunate, I struck Karaoke gold. No worries. There are no "backup singers" and cheesy synthesizers. Instead, it’s just straight acoustic of songs high school kids love. Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers, Colbie Caillat, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Beyonce. The guy’s name is Kris Farrow and I would use him in a heartbeat at club.”

Well I looked into it and it looks really helpful. You can get individual songs from him on iTunes and they happen to be many of the songs I use in my own club. Check it out! Thanks Megan!

http://www.itunes.com/krisfarrow

http://krisfarrow.com/?page_id=2