A few years ago my wife and I were able to do something we had dreamed of for years, we moved close to a high school and started hosting club. You can read about this in a previous post. Before we hosted our very first club (all area club with […]
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My friend Amber from Malibu (California, not the resort camp where none of us can ever get assignments, work crew or summer staff at…But I’m not bitter) sent this great club idea along. If you didn’t catch the title, it is a spin on the Man vs. Wild TV show. […]
I love the creativity of YL and WL leaders! My friend Dougie from Canada (eh), and no that dance is not named after him… anyway he had a creative club event. He had his WL kids make a movie together. Below are the plans and resources that he used. Thanks […]
YLHelp reader Dan from Quad Cities, Indiana sent me this great resource for club talks. It also includes questions and ideas for campaigners for the same topics. Here are the talks included in this resource: Who Do You Say That I Am? Matthew 16:13-16 Jesus and H20. Matthew 14:22-33 Attempt […]
For some reason a lot of students I know like to pretend to be hippies. And then there are those leaders in Northern AZ that like to call each other “gypsies”. All that to say that being a hippy or a gypsy is all the rage right now, as they […]
Usually once or twice a year we do a kidnap club. We did one last Spring. I think timing is key on this club. You can do it when things aren’t looking good, using it as a boost when numbers are low. But I think it is best utilized when […]
In our YL region we do a lot of weekend camps. I remember back in the day I used to haul up a few sound systems in a truck way early, talk the rental property people into the insane plans that we had, pushed play on the cassette or one […]
An oldie but a goodie… Fear Factor club. Quite honestly I’ve seen some clubs really do this one big with video camera feeds, strange animals and thousands of bugs in boxes… wow. This is our more manageable version. We did a version of this a few years ago too. Enjoy… […]
Need to get a new leader up to speed with contact work and the school? We have used these questions below to help get things going. This could also be a great refresher for an experienced leader. You could also have a contest between leaders, pair them up in groups […]
I want to put together a checklist for leaders in training. It would be a 1st 30 days new leader checklist. In other words, it would be a list of the most important things a leader could do to get a great start as a YL leader. Here are a […]
Oh I remember the days of sending out postcards every few weeks to kids to tell them about club. It sure beat calling their home phone number, which was often busy (that is before call waiting!). Then came call-waiting, then you might have to talk to their parents. Then came […]
Over the past year we started a new Wyldlife club in our area. As I mentioned before we meet right after school in a classroom and the school is nearly 90% Latino. These club plans reflect a little bit of that context. Many of them are adaptations of my high […]