As I’ve done in the past, I’m writing a series of posts to capture a few things I’ve learned about leading Young Life and Wyldlife in the past year. I’m adding something new too. This year, I’m adding an extra section to include things I’m working on right now. I […]
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The aim of YL is to reach out to young people and disciple them. To simplify it: we are to disciple. This is the second person plural active imperative from the Great Commission (Mt. 28:19). Translation: Do it! Disciple! With camp around the corner, I’ve been praying and encouraging others […]
I can’t quite find where it began, but somewhere in the history of YL the tradition of the “9:38” page or “9:38” list began. A 9:38 list is a list of names you create and you commit to pray for regularly to become “workers for the harvest field.” I found […]
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. In our camp training we always say that camp is a two week commitment. […]
We leave for camp on Friday and have been in thick of camp training. One of the universal things YL leaders learn in training is that camp is (at minimum) a two week commitment… the week of camp and then follow-up. Many of us are spent when we get back […]
Howdy Partner! Many moons ago the infamous Rick Wilson pulled me aside and taught me how to lead the square dance at summer camp. I’ve been doing it ever since. Sometimes I do it for our club. I just did it for our year end leader party. A Crossfit gym […]
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, […]
-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 […]
Lord willing, you will have the privilege of introducing, or reintroducing one of your teenage friends to Jesus Christ this summer while at a YL or WL camp. Here are a couple suggestions of what to do: Pray with them and let them say in their own words what they […]
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) […]
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 […]