Tomorrow we leave for our summer YL trip, including the 15 hour (hopefully not longer!) bus ride. Here are a couple things I bring in addition to the normal stuff I bring as a leader: Bus Ride All of the camp forms (of course) Blank camp forms (just in case) […]
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It may be too late for some of you, but I thought I’d post our training packet for new leaders. We go through it with all of our new leaders about a week before we go to camp. Some of the details might be specific to the camps our area […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the next few weeks I want to lay out how we develop our leadership community in our area. I’m hoping it will be helpful for some of you. I doubt what we do is a perfect fit for your community, but there may be some things that you can […]
In the last week we had our last YL club (Christmas club), an all area WL club (Elf club), and our area leadership party (Class Sweater Night)… And now is one of the best times of the year to catch our breath from the busyness of YL! I have some […]
Over the summer I normally try to post a couple things that I learned over the previous school year. If you have anything you learned from last year that you would like to tell me about, send it my way smcgever (at) pv dot younglife dot org Last summer, my […]
Over the summer I normally try to post a couple things that I learned over the previous school year. If you have anything you learned from last year that you would like to tell me about, send it my way smcgever (at) pv dot younglife dot org Last summer I […]
We are starting our summer Work Crew training next week. We have done various things in years past: here and here are some examples. This year we are collaborating with another area for a new approach. We will have two weeks of training online via a Facebook group and submitting […]
As long as I can remember we have used club cards. Those are the pieces of paper that you give to new kids at club, often during announcements or some type of introduction time, then they fill them out and give them back to leaders. These cards have a long […]