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 […]
Contact Work
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 […]
I do! Especially this year. Last year was one of my favorite years in our YL club. Our club had been exploding for years, our campaigners was full and vibrant. We had too many excellent junior leaders than we needed, we couldn’t even use them all! It was awesome. Many […]
In our area school starts really early, August 8th to be exact. This means that leaders start getting text messages right away saying, “When is club?!?” If we were to start club in the beginning of August we would run out of momentum, interest, and energy for club way before […]
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. In the course […]
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 When I first […]
I hope you saw my earlier post about the key components of a great camp video. Here is another post that adds to it… Why it’s good to have a video for camp: Even when your camp Is fully booked! While you are in the mood for great YL videos, […]
Need to get a new leader up to speed with contact work and the school? We have used these questions below to help get things going. This could also be a great refresher for an experienced leader. You could also have a contest between leaders, pair them up in groups […]
What do kids like pretty more than anything else? Pictures of themselves! Just check out Facebook… Wait it is called Face book, as in, I want to see my own face. Yes, that is the idea. Random tangent, I almost did a program skit recently that was going to be […]
This year we decided to get stickers made up for each school with club. On the stickers we had a YL logo and the school name. Surprisingly, they were very cheap to make. You can find custom one-color stickers for five to ten cents each depending on how many you […]
This year I had some club kids who love ping pong (OK table tennis technically, don’t send me angry emails). Since I’ve been in YL for a while, I’ve picked up some ping pong skills over time so I was always challenging them. But we didn’t have it at club, […]