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Our club is finishing up the semester tonight with a Ugly Sweater Christmas party. We begin the night with Christmas cookies, my wonderful wife makes a bunch of cookies and then we let kids decorate them with icing and frosting. We try to keep it clean, but if you are wondering if 50, 75, or even 100+ kids can do this, the answer is yes! We also have a small Christmas tree in our hallway with small Christmas ordainments that each club kid can write their name on and put it up on the tree. We had that up for the last two weeks and it will stay up until after Christmas. After the cookies, we will sing some Christmas songs, then do a huge white elephant gift exchange (the key is a really strict time keeper!), and then tonight we are doing a leader cardboard testimonies followed by a leader panel Q&A time.

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I’ll keep this short and sweet. Post It Note club will stick with the kids for a long time. If you got the pun in there then you would probably like most of my jokes because they are almost all like that, really punny.

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Last night we did a fun club, iClub. Basically everything had some kind of technology or Apple twist to it.

The mixers was a Words with Friends type game. Everyone got a label with a letter and point value, put it on their forehead and then the guys played the girls by making a word, lining up and grabbing a knee. To do the game you will need this file I made with letters and points, print it out on standard address labels.

Then once again we used the wonderful Polleverywhere web site to do live polling via text message. We did:

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This might sound confusing, but follow along… last week we did Young Life, Young Life club. So basically a club with a “theme” of “Young Life”. We did this near the beginning of the semester to somewhat introduce some of the newer kids to a little intro to YL. We asked kids to come in any YL gear they might have. I also save up random leftovers from previous camps and such and gave them away during club, especially to the newer kids. We also had some of our junior leaders do the “If I Weren’t In YL…” skit.

Here is our plan and also the video of the skit.

Who might be thinking, “jerk club”? I have a bunch of jerks in my club. Well, no I am talking about the dance called, “The Jerk”, or the “Reject” is what I think it is technically called.

When I was at camp this summer, I noticed that tons of kids would do this dance. So we had “Jerk Club” and it was a ton of fun.

Here is our “Blue” club. All the kids dressed in blue, good times!

We used the cheap popsicles and just had blue ones at the end. Also we couldn’t find all blue M&Ms, so we had all the colors, but they only got “points” for blue ones.

The video is a little choppy due to my camera only recording in 1 min segments (?!) but this is a great skit…

Here is the plan if you want it.

Yes, that is the meatiest hottest centaur you have ever seen huh? Think about it, combine the mass cultural demand for centaurs (among the crowd that lives in comic book stores on weekend nights for get-togethers) and the hip hop urban crowd and you pretty much have every single person at a high school covered. This is the brainchild that brought 50 Centaur, half horse, half rapper to fruition. No actually it was Bree, Andrew and Jory from SVYL who told me about a Woodleaf program a few years ago. But who cares about details?

I’ll give you just a taste of his mad game…

50 Centaur’s the name I’m half rapper half horse
Spitt’in mad lyrics is par for the course
Half horse is way I rock the wild wild west
Half rapper is the way I rock the bullet proof vest

Crooked Creek… Creek… Creek…Creek
For a week… week… week…week
Don’t be a geek…geek…geek
On the bus save a seat…seat…seat

Best recognize!

I had a MySpace Artist page that had over 1000 views in 3 days, but Tom took it down. The only reason I can figure is “impersonating” a real person. Hmmm.If that doesn’t work, look hereBTW, last Monday I was 50 Centaur at club, on Tuesday I graduated with an M.Div from Phoenix Seminary… This only happens in YL.