I had the privilege to be with all of the camp speakers this summer. As part of this time they compiled their best talk illustrations. Many of them are time-tested ones many are familiar with. There were dozens of these. There were five that really stood out to me and […]
Young Life
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We decided to celebrate everyone’s birthday this week at club. We convinced everyone that Monday was their birthday. I was on campus and kids were saying, "Happy Birthday Sean!" I even heard kids saying it to each other. It definitely created some hype around campus. You can see the attached […]
Last Monday we did Toilet Paper Club. It was a shorter club, then we Tee-pee-ed our rival high school. We asked each student to come with one or two rolls of toilet paper and camo gear. The other club let us get them for a few minutes and then ran […]
Check the target Did you hit your mark? Ask for feedback. Ask key kids too. It is wise before your talk to to ask an experienced leader to listen carefully, and time the talk also. Ask for constructive feedback. You will get a bunch of "great job" and "way to […]
Plato’s order of perception Credibility (who are you?) Compassion (do you care about me?) Content (what do you have to say?) Use at least 2 of these: Something… Personal Visual Interactive Surprising Tangible Review your notes and write at least two or three key “feelings” that should be obvious (anger, […]
Jesus is the answer. Find scripture from the gospels that show what Christ has to say about this topic. Ask for help if this is hard. Apply it to your life and theirs. Give them a challenge. How does this fit everyday life? What does this look like when it […]
Identify: Hurts, Needs, Interests. Current Events, Individual Events, What they value Address a problem they perceive Help them identify the meaning of life and the purpose of life Tools: Team brainstorm, ask kids, read some blogs, post a survey. Also use a series of talks. Bold and brash topics will […]
Brain Freeze Race Basically this is a race to see who can finish a 16 liter bucket of 7-11 Slurpee the fastest. You need 2 big buckets of Slurpee (7-11 will generally give you a good deal on the stuff) and however many straws you need for the team members. […]
It might be too late for this, but last night we did the dating game club. It went over great. It helps it you blindfold the guy and put a divider between him and the girls. It also helps if the girls use fake voices to avoid being recognized. Here […]
Here are 5 new games for club that might be new to you: 1. Fly Swatter Fencing Not sure if this is on the site, but it should be. Buy two fly swatters from the dollar store. Two people. Stand facing each other with swatters extended. The goal is to […]
Rave! Yes! Glow sticks, techno music, black lights! Lots of fun. This is a club that can be quite a bit different than the normal club. We order glowsticks online, we got them HERE, but you can get them HERE too. We also borrowed a black light. A strobe light […]
So tonight we did Pizza club. Not Pizza Olympics, we’ll do that one later. This was just a pizza theme. Psychic Bambi was hilarious, so was smell, touch, taste. One of the things I did in the talk was to show a picture of Jesus out of focus and then […]