Help for Young Life Leaders NOW

Here is an idea passed along by my friend Drew from Colorado. His friend Zach came up with an idea for follow-up from camp. Instead of putting a book into kids hands and asking them to read it. Zach is sending out an abbreviated version of a quiet time for kids to do a few times a week as a Facebook message to individual kids who started following Christ at camp. We’ve found this to be successful as kids are more apt to read things on the computer written as messages to them then a book.

Great idea Zach!

A good friend of mine sent out an email about camp follow-up with ideas he has collected over the years. I thought they were excellent and wanted to pass them along.

What do you do for camp follow-up?

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You may have noticed that the updates of the Sync through Mark have slowed down. There are a couple of reasons, but I want to let you know that we hope to continue them in the Fall. In the mean time, we will shirt our focus to summer camping, follow-up and some insights from the year-in-review. BTW… If you have any insights from the year or have something to pass along, let me know.

One of my favorite tools is the Navigator TMS Topical Memory System. I recently had a need for some quick-hit verses and questions. I came up with these and I thought I’d share them with you. Just print them and cut them out. I have included 40 verses with a question or two for each.

It is in Word format so you can edit as needed for your group.

Here is the fifth installment of Sync through Mark…

I’ve received a lot of positive feedback on these in email and conversations. Any feedback you’d like to post in the comments? Anything that has really helped or could be added to make it more useful?

Here is the fourth installment of Sync through Mark…

Here is the third installment of Sync through Mark…

Here is the second installment of Sync through Mark…

Thanks to Andi and Karen for your helpful edits too!

Here are the first club talk and campaigner plans for Sync through Mark.

We are very excited to announce a wide-spanning project called “Sync”. Simply put, the first project is a weekly club talk through a story in each chapter of the book of Mark with a corresponding Campaigner plan. Here are some thoughts behind it:

• Club talk resources can really help new and experienced leaders plan club talks
• Campaigners often needs an extra boost, having a ready-to-go Bible study makes it easier
• I have found it is easy to follow-up with a campaigners based on the club talk rather then introducing a whole new topic
• A major strength of our club talks is that they are Christ-centered, lets try more of that in Campaigners
• Often times in Campaigners I find myself asking the question, “what should we cover?”. This lets the author of Mark have a say in that.
• The Gospels and the Gospel of Mark are the outline of our traditional club talk sequence, so it will flow naturally with most club talk semesters.

I have invited a bunch of the best speakers and YL people I know to help on this project. Each week will combine the ideas of some of the best people out there. Even better, we can collaborate through the comments on each post to improve them. We will be adding about one per week until we get through Mark!