The “This Year…” series looks back at lessons learned in the past year of YL. It will feature several posts and guest posts. Here is one from my friend Dan from St. Francisville, LA… A new thing we started doing is riding the team buses to away games. We are […]
Contact Work
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The “This Year…” series looks back at lessons learned in the past year of YL. It will feature several posts and guest posts. Here is one from my friend Andi from Elk Grove, CA… We started a new club this year and one of the things that we did to […]
The “This Year…” series looks back at lessons learned in the past year of YL. It will feature several posts and guest posts. Here is one from my friend Tanita from Tucson, AZ… Kids like to cook together–weird thing I learned after I invited 4-5 kids to come over and […]
The “This Year…” series looks back at lessons learned in the past year of YL. It will feature several posts and guest posts. Here is one from my friend Dougie in Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island, Canada… We have been working with some higher risk students through contact work and they […]
The “This Year…” series looks back at lessons learned in the past year of YL. It will feature several posts and guest posts. Here is one from my friend Jason in Flagstaff… Don’t set a club start date. Instead set a goal for leaders knowing 100 or 200 kids (or […]
Here is an idea I got from my friend Tanita and Keith. You buy some plastic pink flamingos, then you go put them a friend’s yard (preferably someone with a sense of humor and a connection to YL). Then you leave a sign on one of them that says, “You’ve […]
Just wondering… what are some good contact work ideas over the winter break? Any creative ones? BTW… have a great Christmas. Let’s bring our gifts to Him for His birthday. 🙂
Here is a helpful and entertaining contact work training video my friends made a couple years ago. Enjoy! Go Tanita and Troy! Thanks to Steve too.
We sold our house and are looking to move closer to the school where we do club. It is a lifelong dream to live super-close to the school. We want our house to be a hub of club, campaigners, Friday night football tailgate parties, … you get the idea. We […]
This year we started an official campus club. There are a couple reasons why. First, official campus clubs can use the facilities free, that help a ton. Next, this allows us to be on campus more and even do announcements. It also allows us to be at things like freshman […]
This year I had the opportunity to speak at a snowboarding camp in Northern California. They were nice enough to take care of my arrangements, but I thought I’d push my luck and see if they had room for me to bring one of my club kids with me. And […]
We were having an all you can eat Taco Bell club (at Taco Bell). As if that wasn’t good enough, I talked to some guys about making a video to promote it. Not only did it help the guys, some of whom had only been once to YL, but they […]