This weekend I had the privilege once again to be a part of the Western Division (now Southwest and Northwest Division) Student Staff Weekend, also known as the “49 Conference”, after Isaiah 49:1. I’d venture to say these are some of the best leaders in the entire mission (maybe I’m […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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For our all area leadership meeting last night we spent a lot of time worship and asking the Lord to put specific names on our heart for summer camp. We were specifically waiting for five names each. After time in prayer, waiting, then more prayer, and then searching through our […]
Two years ago, we were thrilled to share the great new club idea of the “clubble”, or “club in a bubble”. Since then, it has taken the YL world by storm! We’ve heard reports of the clubble being used for club, for messy games, for dance parties, at YL camps, […]
Last week we had a fun club, Mean Girls Club. I was worried that the movie was a little dated, or that it would have been a little negative, but it wasn’t. We did a trust fall, and a fun “Mean Guys” skit that one of our leaders, Wil, wrote […]
Next year, our area is kicking off a focused effort for one-on-one discipling and mentoring of leaders, mostly college sophomores (the year after our FYL program). If we all got in a room and tried to find a consensus about “how do we share the gospel with people”, we would […]
Here is a fun idea from Tanita Maddox from Santa Barbara. They called it “Roll the Dice Club”… — There actually isn’t anything super difficult or special about this club; it’s just a fun twist to do something different one night. First, we really just planned a normal club. Then, […]
In our FYL group we cover the history of Young Life. Then we ask the leaders to “teach it back” the following week. Two of our great FYL students made this video to show the following week. I got a good laugh out of it! Nice job Steven and Anthony! […]
A while back we did “Kool-Aide” club (“oh, yeaaahhh!”). I pretty much didn’t have much more in mind than someone dressed in a Kool-Aide man outfit bursting through a fake wall at club yelling, “Oh yeeaahhh!” As it turns out, a Kool-Aide man outfit is hard to make, but we […]
YLHelp may have a lot of experience and ideas, but your ideas are better, and there are things YLHelp doesn’t know much about! I could use your help… What are your tips for a great messy games for a local club? I’ve run countless messy games at camp, even back […]
Apparently all the cool kids say there is a song out there called “Thrift Shop”. The research staff at YLHelp did some research and found out it probably wouldn’t make a good club song. But, we can still ride the wave of pop culture right into the a second hand […]
If you blink, it will be gone, but before you blink, you might want to grab yourself a helmet and jump on the Harlem Shake video train and make one yourself. Like I said in a tweet… #theharlemshakewasmadeforthis. If you search Youtube for “Young Life” AND “Harlem Shake” and then […]
This is a series of posts which outline our leadership funnel and how we have people enter our leadership community. You can read more about it in general here. Our most recent addition to our leadership development is the establishment of junior junior leaders. This was the vision of our […]