Help for Young Life Leaders NOW

If you need ideas right away, go to the bottom of this post for a link to the best resource to date on theme clubs.

A few weeks ago (before the post) we had our semester planning meeting and came up with some outlines for our clubs. Here is what we are thinking right now:

Jan 16 – Volleyball hangout

Jan 23 – All Area Club

Jan 30 – Hipster Club

Feb 6 – Progressive Club

Feb 13 – Valentines Club

Feb 20 – No school, no club

Feb 27 – Leap year club

Mar 5 – College Club

Mar 12 – Superhero Club

Mar 19 – Spring Break, no club

Mar 26 – Mom club

Apr 2 – Kentucky Derby Club (seriously, my leaders wanted it)

Apr 9 – All AZ Club

Apr 16 – Canada/Malibu Club

Apr 23 – Mock Prom

Apr 30 – Messy Games Club

May 7 – PJ/Pillowfight Club

May 14 – Senior Run Club

May 21 – Year End Party

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A few weeks ago I mentioned that our YL region is focusing on the book of John for the entire year. Club, campaigners, leader meetings, region meetings, devotionals, as much as possible. I have written before how much I like going through the gospels in club for talks and campaigners. I know at least one club that is now going through the seven “I am” statements in John for club this semester.

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Hugh, an amazing volunteer leader and frequent contributor to YLHelp, sent along his Spring club plan matrix.

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A few weeks ago our team met to plan out our clubs for the semester. Some are variations of clubs we have done in the past and others are brand new themes. I will post the clubs as we do them with notes and ideas.

But for those of you who are interested, I put together a zip file of a complete semester of club plans you can use. The table below shows the plans that I included and the last column gives you a heads-up on the clubs we currently planning. Hope this helps! Feel free to share you ideas in the comments or email them to me to share.

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My friend Doug from YL Vancouver Island has contributed to YLHelp in the past and has sent me even more great stuff to share.

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. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m so thankful that I’m getting more and more emails and suggestions from all of you out there! You are all really helping everyone out a ton. Including my clubs!

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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.)