More and more clubs are using lyric videos for songs in club these days. I’ve put together a Youtube playlist you can use and pick from for your next club if you need it. The link to the playlist is HERE. I also want to give a shout out to […]
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Contact Work is the most distinctive and unique part of the YL tool belt. Few others do it, and even fewer do it the way YL leaders do Contact Work. Yet, it is also the most challenging aspect of leadership for most leaders in YL. I am the product of […]
Some of you know that I’ve put a few booklets together to help with campaigners and camp follow-up. Well, I have a new one called Wyld Questions. It is aimed at Wyldlife campaigners and I’ve been fortunate to have tried it out last summer in my area and also get […]
A while back I posted about our Junior Junior Leader Training as part of our overall Leadership Development plan in our area. Since then I’ve updated our training and thought I’d outline it here. Similar to before this is for committed 8th graders and it is an invitation-only event. At […]
I hope this post really clicks with you… It probably will if you are a serious nerd like me. In addition to using Bluetooth to wirelessly run our club music, another thing that has helped a lot is to use a remote for our song/announcements presentation on our computer. If […]
If you want to reach “every kid” you can’t do it alone… but too many try that and wear themselves out while unfortunately not reaching all that many. The Master Plan of Evangelism is a classic study on how Jesus called, trained, and sent others to spread the net far […]
One of the keys to a smooth club is to control the down time, this is the time before club, in the transitions between the parts of club, and after club. People simply stay more in tune with what is going on when something is happening either visually or audibly. […]
Relationships and stories, these are two of the most powerful tools we use in Young Life. Double Happy Double Crappy (DHDC) is one way we leverage that for the gospel and discipleship in our area. In our campaigners each week we break up into groups and everyone gets to share […]
This is a great club that overlaps with great contact work. It takes a few weeks to put together but can grab the attention of new people too. It is based around the old game show “Family Feud”. Basically you aim to survey 100 students on several different questions and […]
Two things come up over and over on this blog… I like going through the gospels for club talks (and campaigners… see here and here and here) and I like collaboration. It was only a matter of time before I combined the two. This year in our area all of […]
We are working through the Topical Memory System (TMS) verses from the fantastic Navigators plan. These have a long history in Young Life, in fact several years ago (with less hair and 30 extra lbs) I unearthed the old archives of Jim Rayburn in the Wheaton College collection and found […]
It may be counter-intuitive but we had our first club of the year, after Dodgeball and Taco Bell All You Can Eat Club, be “Top Secret” club. Normally you don’t want club to be a secret, but this top secret club was not secret at all. The part I was […]