YL College – Welcome Week Part 2

Billy Jack Blankenship, John Byard August 18, 2021


27. Welcome Week Best Practices with John Byard and Billy Jack Blankenship

This episode features a Welcome Week presentation by John Byard (Divisional Coordinator) and Billy Jack Blankenship (San Diego State) to the Southwest Division. As they dive into best practices, John and Billy Jack remind listeners how crucial the first two weeks of the semester are for incoming freshmen and cover everything from events to tabling to engaging existing students in your community. Welcome Week is the foundation of an entire school year of inviting students to experience community, adventure, and significance.

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Billy Jack Blankenship

Billy Jack has been on YL staff since 2017, after two decades of ministry as a Camp Director (Forest Home Ministries) and on staff at a local church in San Diego. His favorite parts of the YL College job are leader development, shepherding students, and teaching/talking about the good news of the Kingdom of God. He is also a super picky eater and is supremely confident in that. 

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John Byard

John is the Younglife College and University Divisional Coordinator for the Southwest US and the Asia Pacific Division. John has been on Younglife staff for twenty-six years and still enjoys watching a new college ministry launch. John has three boys, Lincoln (18), Ben (16), and Harrison (13), and lives in San Diego, CA. Go, Padres!

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