OK, I got lots of support and prayer for this conversation. Thank you so much! Just so you know, when I have spoke at camps I look at the big picture and try to integrate a lot of the themes and keep to one primary analogy. I also start with […]
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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?
Would you help me? I am actually very excited and prepared to speak at summer camp (don’t be worried if you are bringing kids when I’m speaking haha). I’ve spoken at summer camp before and lots of weekend camps. And the powers-that-be asked me again, so apparently I don’t suck. […]
The Leader Panel is a great option in lieu of a club talk. Is it 10 minutes before club and you don’t have Bill Paige or Marty Caldwell around to do the club talk at the last second? BOOM! Leader Panel! Is it 30 minutes after club has started and […]
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 […]
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 […]
I got an idea from a friend in an email for a scavenger hunt with a twist. It is Couch Olympics.We did it yesterday and tons of the kids texted me and wrote on Facebook… “Best YL Ever!” Basically it is a photo scavenger hunt but you take the pictures […]
This is a great alternative club you can do. The Spring semester can be pretty long for kids and leaders, this can help mix it up. Here is what my friend Charles from Las Vegas told me about… “All of our kids and leaders were told to dress up in […]
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. Blue Club
Here is the fifth installment of Sync through Mark… Sync: Mark 5 Club Talk Sync: Mark 5 Campaigner Plan 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 […]
Assignment teams were just updated for the summer. There have been several changes, especially due to financial challenges. Staff who previously were slated for summer assignments have requested to stay in their communities over the summer to work on fundraising. One of the surprises is that the second assistant program […]
Here is an idea I got from my friend Tanita and Keith. You buy some plastic pink flamingos, then you go put them a friend’s yard (preferably someone with a sense of humor and a connection to YL). Then you leave a sign on one of them that says, “You’ve […]