When I was a senior in high school, the staff guy training me told me to learn guitar for club. Whenever he told me to do something I did it. So I went out and taught myself guitar. After a little practice I was playing guitar at club, campaigners and […]
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I hope you’ve enjoyed what we are trying to do at ylhelp.com. One of the founding principles is that we can all benefit from our collective knowledge-base. I have two things in mind I’d like to see grow: subscribers and comments. If those two things can grow, then we all […]
Clearly violating the 100 pound differential limit and the double (or triple blob) rule. OK, actually it doesn’t look like a YL camp.
Our biggest event each year is our dodgeball tournament. We use it to kick-off the school year. We use a gym that has a full size basketball court and divide it into 4 dodgeball courts. We encourage team uniforms and have refs and everything. I also suggest using real dodgeballs […]
I am leading a seminar at our regional leader retreat next weekend about how to share Christ. I did a similar seminar last year and I got good feedback. This year I want to focus on investigating what God has already done in their lives. In other words, this person […]
Here is a helpful and entertaining contact work training video my friends made a couple years ago. Enjoy! Go Tanita and Troy! Thanks to Steve too.
We sold our house and are looking to move closer to the school where we do club. It is a lifelong dream to live super-close to the school. We want our house to be a hub of club, campaigners, Friday night football tailgate parties, … you get the idea. We […]
Here are a couple links from my friend Andi who is on staff in NorCal. www.biblemap.org A very cool Google map organized by Bible book, chapter and verse, "It would be great for campaigners". www.bibleplan.org Lots of leaders have never read through the Bible, but want to. This can help […]
I can tell which search terms lead people to this blog. Here are a couple funny ones… "hannah montana skit" I get TONS of hits from this one. I guess it is because I suggested doing a Hannah Montana skit called Banana Montana. I actually know clubs across the country […]
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 […]
Chance are, you are having a team meeting very soon to catch up and plan a ton of stuff. I’ve attached what we did last week with our team. What do you do at your team meetings? What works? What doesn’t? Team Meeting Kickoff Agenda
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but this blog has been a huge encouragement to me and others. I’ve been able to connect with other leaders, and also develop friendships with people all over the world. Some YL people, some friends of YL, some that are not involved […]