For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes – Romans 1:16. 1. God’s power to save people is found in the gospel. 2. In our desire to see our friends believe in Jesus and find salvation, […]
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For the nerds out there… Thank you to those who sent emails about the YMN305 class (posts here and here). For those who might be interested here is a list of resources I utilized in addition to the Bible: Aristotle. Politics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Barna, George, […]
Every four years all of the full time staff look forward to the All Staff Conference (ASC). It has been a highlight of the mission for quite some time and the 75 year celebration in 2016 will be no exception. Plans are still finalizing, but it may be that 2018 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
In my next of the woods, though there are no woods in my city, we started school about two weeks ago. So we are in full swing. In fact, we’ve already begun contact work, club events, area leadership meetings, new leader training, club semester planning, and more. I thought I’d […]
Over the summer I normally try to post a couple things that I learned over the previous school year. If you want see the series as it has developed over lots of years then click here. If you have anything you learned from last year that you would like to […]
Over the summer I normally try to post a couple things that I learned over the previous school year. If you want see the series as it has developed over lots of years then click here. If you have anything you learned from last year that you would like to […]
Thanks to our growing efforts in International South Young Life, we have been able to keep an eye on things that previously we would have missed. Fortunately our YL team in Taiwan spotted a recent product infringement of our new favorite pastime, Spikeball. Spikeball has been all the rage with […]
I have a question for you, do you want to build a snowman? Well, not at YL summer camp. It is time to let it go. In an effort to “get ahead of things”, a source told us that a private meeting happened with representatives from both sides. Apparently the […]