Help for Young Life Leaders NOW

As long as I can remember we have used club cards. Those are the pieces of paper that you give to new kids at club, often during announcements or some type of introduction time, then they fill them out and give them back to leaders. These cards have a long history, all the way back to the first days of Young Life when the national office in Texas would keep them on file, like many “clubs”, to keep track of their members.

Over the years I’ve taken countless hours to type these into spreadsheets. Usually these include information like:

• First name
• Last name
• Home phone
• Cell phone
• Email
• Address
• City
• State
• Zip code
• Parents names
• Favorite movie
• School
• Year in school
• Who invited you

Let’s just be honest… that is a lot of information to type! So I’ve, or a helper or two for me, have spent a lot of time while typing thinking… do we really need all this info? So over time I would type in less and less.

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OK, this might be old news for some of you, but belts are important these days. They are a fashion statement a way to show some style. In case you wear a belt like this:

You may want to consider an upgrade… everyones doin’ it.

This is your standard studded belt. Pretty much every 16 year old boy has at least one of these.

I wasn’t a big fan of the studded one. So I decided to go with this one. My club kids helped me pick it out at Pac Sun.

It is a little more interesting than the studded one. Also it is a neutral color so I can wear it with a lot of clothes, which is good because I only plan on buying one “cool” belt. It is too expensive to buy “cool” stuff all the time.

Do you have a cool belt? If you are under 25 you probably already have a couple. If you are 25-25 you should get one. If you are over 35 it might look like you are trying too hard to fit in.