Anyone who knows actual living, breathing, teenagers is well-aware of their social media consumption. It is high, really high. It is tool of life for us all. For YL leaders it is a tool, an important tool. Note that it is just a tool. I’ve tried to capture some of […]
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In our area we have two areas of focus this year, and one of them is contact work. I’ve tried to document some of our thoughts HERE, HERE, and HERE for just a few examples. In our monthly area leadership meetings we highlight some of the leaders who are knocking […]
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. This may be […]
Last night we did a fun club, iClub. Basically everything had some kind of technology or Apple twist to it. The mixers was a Words with Friends type game. Everyone got a label with a letter and point value, put it on their forehead and then the guys played the […]
Oh I remember the days of sending out postcards every few weeks to kids to tell them about club. It sure beat calling their home phone number, which was often busy (that is before call waiting!). Then came call-waiting, then you might have to talk to their parents. Then came […]
Everyones doin’ it! They are text messaging. No big surprise, sorry. Lots of you might already have a flip phone, a Blackberry, a Motorola Brick, and some of you might even have an iPhone, but I know a lot of you have a Treo. I do. For the last year […]