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. First Year Leading (FYL) is a weekly small group of college students who spent the entire year growing in Christ and […]
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I have two huge boxes full of notes and handouts from my time getting an MDiv in seminary. For some reason I can’t force myself to throw them away, but on the other hand, how often have I pulled them out to find a certain resource?… Maybe once. Maybe less. […]
(Extended intro for the few that may be interested, the rest of you can scroll past all this) Here is the problem with talking about time management… it ends up being a contest to one-up each other either on 1) how “busy” you are, and/or, 2) how much you can […]
I believe feedback is important for leadership development. The Christmas break is a good time to ask people for their thoughts. Here are six thoughts about feedback. Three things online feedback CAN do: 1. Help you make mid-course corrections while you still can for the year. 2. Some will be […]
The other week we had to scramble to come up with an alternative club/event after school for one of our Wyldlife clubs. Here is what we did: 1. Supplies: We went Little Caesars and ordered eight hot and ready pizzas. We also got 4 extra boxes (free), and an order […]
Wouldn’t it be great for you, and the rest of your YL/WL team, to get a text message every time one of the other leaders on your team did contact work (and this all happened pretty much automatically)? That is what we have been doing in our area for the […]
A fantastic YL team leader recently told me, “I stopped asking my YL team about contact work because they are sick about me asking them about it… mostly since they don’t do it.” If you’ve been following along my series on contact work, you may have navigated the obstacles of […]
You may know that I’ve been trying to find a solution for club cards for quite a while. Kids generally don’t mind filling out the card, it is the next step that is difficult… Getting the info to all the leaders in a way they can use it. Last year […]
He plays video games with people across the country he doesn’t know… He hardly knows three people in each class he is in… He still watches cartoons… His mom drives him everywhere… He doesn’t have armpit hair… He has the intelligence level of a freshman in high school… because HE […]
We are now in the forth year of doing club talks through the gospels. We started in Mark, then John, then Luke, and now on to Matthew! Take a wild guess what we will be doing next year… if your guess rhymes with Zark then you are on to something. […]
Virtually every YL leader can answer this question, “When is club?” Virtually every YL leader can answer this question, “When is campaigners?” Virtually every YL leader can answer this question, “When is camp?” But if you were to ask virtually any YL leader the following question, you would likely hear […]
Wanna know why contact work is so hard? Because Satan hates it. Yup, it is pretty much that simple. I can prove it. Try to plan contact work two or three times this week. It won’t go according to plan, I guarantee it. You will get busy, someone will cancel […]