It has been amazing to see the Lord move in International YL. I remember a lot of years ago when I had the privilege to show Alexis from Tanzania how to play Brown Eyed Girl as he was going to do program at Lost Canyon that summer. In many ways […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. Since college I’ve […]
-A huge list of camp resources from the team at the YL Leader Blog! -A great training guide for leaders at camp from YL Digital! –Great advice for those leaving their spouse and children for a week. -Spotify playlist for the dining hall at YL camp. -Ideas for cabin unity […]
Follow-up is more important than camp. Put another way, discipleship is more important than conversion (since discipleship includes conversion, see Mt 28:19-20). Discipleship is primarily more “caught” than “taught”, so make sure you are a living as a disciple first and foremost. We also are commanded to teach our disciples […]
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. I’m convinced that YL is a grassroots organization. In fact, there is no doubt about it. When done right, whether in […]
Next year, our area is kicking off a focused effort for one-on-one discipling and mentoring of leaders, mostly college sophomores (the year after our FYL program). If we all got in a room and tried to find a consensus about “how do we share the gospel with people”, we would […]
In our FYL group we cover the history of Young Life. Then we ask the leaders to “teach it back” the following week. Two of our great FYL students made this video to show the following week. I got a good laugh out of it! Nice job Steven and Anthony! […]
If you blink, it will be gone, but before you blink, you might want to grab yourself a helmet and jump on the Harlem Shake video train and make one yourself. Like I said in a tweet… #theharlemshakewasmadeforthis. If you search Youtube for “Young Life” AND “Harlem Shake” and then […]