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 […]
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If you want to reach “every kid” you can’t do it alone… but too many try that and wear themselves out while unfortunately not reaching all that many. The Master Plan of Evangelism is a classic study on how Jesus called, trained, and sent others to spread the net far […]
Relationships and stories, these are two of the most powerful tools we use in Young Life. Double Happy Double Crappy (DHDC) is one way we leverage that for the gospel and discipleship in our area. In our campaigners each week we break up into groups and everyone gets to share […]
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 […]
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 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. In my first […]
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 […]
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. Our most recent addition to our leadership development is the establishment of junior junior leaders. This was the vision of our […]
Volkswagen has recently put out some great commercials. When I saw this one I knew exactly how I could use it in YL. The commercial captures a dad showing his son how to throw a baseball. It first shows the son throwing, and his throw and form are quite terrible. […]
In the next few weeks I want to lay out how we develop our leadership community in our area. I’m hoping it will be helpful for some of you. I doubt what we do is a perfect fit for your community, but there may be some things that you can […]