Posts by Young Life Leader
WyldLife Wednesday: 5 Ways To Get Parents Involved
5 Ways to Get Parents Involved BOOSTER CLUB Gather an official team for the school with one parent for each grade. Ask these parents to be your advocates. They can find locations for club, ask for supplies, and look at school calendars to set schedules. They are the “face of WyldLife’ – always informed and…
Read MoreHow Young Life Leaders Say Goodbye
Some of your Young Life teammates are probably about to enter a season of transition. Maybe they’re graduating and moving this summer. Maybe they’re burned out. Maybe they’re called to another ministry. Their absence will be noticed. Not just by you or your team, but by the kids. Change is hard. Trust is expensive. Abandonment…
Read MoreBen & Jerry’s Free Cone Day
Tomorrow, Tuesday April 14th, is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s nation-wide. Noon-8pm. Grab your middle and high school friends and enjoy a cone. Find your nearest Ben & Jerry’s here.
Read More5 Yard Games To Play Outside Before Club Starts
Here are some of my favorite yard games to play outside before club starts, especially during spring-time weather. Throwing Challenge Fun and simple. All you need is a tarp and a football. Cut out shapes in the tarp and label each shape with a different a point value depending on size. Cornhole/Bag Toss If you’ve…
Read MoreCamp Musician Of The Month: Tyson Motsenbocker
Our featured camp musician for April is Tyson Motsenbocker. Tyson became involved with Young Life as a freshman in high school and met Jesus at Washington Family Ranch the following summer. He served on Work Crew in high school and was a volunteer leader in Spokane, Washington while attending Whitworth University. After college Tyson moved…
Read MoreWyldLife Wednesday: Getting Urban Kids To Camp
LaTonya Stevenson has been leading WyldLife with four inner-city schools for more than 14 years. So how does she fill a bus to Southwind every summer? She says the key is talking to the parents and guardians of her middle school friends. “You may have to work a little harder or be more creative to…
Read MoreYoung Life Presents The 1st Annual #EpicHighFive Contest
This is a picture of an #EpicHighFive. It was originally posted on Instagram by Young Life Camp Musician, Tim Halperin. Over the next 10 days (until April 16) we’ll be running an #EpicHighFive contest on the YL Leader Instagram and Twitter accounts. Here are the rules: The Epic High Five must occur between a Young…
Read MoreHow Spring Break Broke My Heart
I tried to avoid social media last week. It was Spring Break for my high school friends and the few tweets I’ve read and posts I’ve seen have broken my heart. It seems everything we’ve talked about in Campaigners this year just got thrown out the window… …of a jeep …while speeding down the strip…
Read MoreClub Game Of The Week: Raffle Your Luck
This game is played just like the regular raffle with a few twists. Game submitted by Nolan Branson, leader in Knoxville, TN. Supplies 4 silly/regular prizes 1 super prize (big deal) 2 ‘zonks’ (dollar store prizes or prizes no one wants such as an old shoe) Raffle tickets 6 Assorted size boxes labeled 1-6 or…
Read MoreA Powerful Way To Celebrate Graduating Seniors
Before you know it the seniors in your Young Life club will be graduating. Below is one special way to honor and celebrate them. Some of the male leaders in our area have a tradition of holding a “Blessing Service” for the graduating senior guys. They got this idea from a book called ‘The Blessing’…
Read MoreDenny OKs Leaders To Date Team Members
The Young Life Service Center released an executive memo today with a policy change regarding dating relationships between Young Life team members. For over a decade there has been a mission-wide ban on leaders from the same Young Life team dating one another. After much discussion the Senior Leadership Team has unanimously voted to remove the dating…
Read More15 Second Camp Promo Videos
One easy way to promote your summer camp week is to put a ’15 second camp video promo’ on your YL Instagram. You can download a 15 second video for your YL camp here. It’s a little tricky to actually upload it to Instagram, but it’s worth the effort. Once you find your camp video,…
Read MoreA Memorable End Of Year Tradition: The Campies
This hilarious & meaningful Campaigners tradition is shared by Tom O’Neill, a volunteer leader in Sammamish, WA. The Campies For any fan of the TV show “The Office” you will recognize that this Campaigners tradition was inspired by Michael Scott’s shenanigans. I was watching an episode of “The Dundies”, which is an annual office award…
Read MoreClub Game Of The Week: Goin’ Fishin
Goin’ Fishin’ was shared with us by Alli Bixler, volunteer leader in Baton Rouge, LA. Materials Needed 2 or more long pieces of rope 2 or more buckets 2 or more whole fish you can buy from the seafood counter in a grocery store (we used catfish) – NOT ALIVE Small/lightweight objects (whistles, sponges, small…
Read MoreJoin The Young Life Alumni Network
Every spring Young Life encourages college seniors who are about to graduate to register in the YL Alumni and Friends database. The intention is to stay connected and serve our alumni as they enter the next phase of life. You can join the YL Alumni & Friends network here by filling out this short form. …
Read MoreYoung Life At The Movies
As warmer weather is upon us, it’s a fun option to move club outdoors. Kathryn Tilmes shared this idea of doing a Young Life movie night outside. What You Need Projector, laptop, DVD, amp, speakers and all the right cables. Extension cords. A screen or a large white sheet and a rope to use for the screen…
Read MoreA Powerful Video To Show At Campaigners
During this season of Lent we’ve been talking in our Campaigners group about different spiritual disciplines. A few weeks ago we focused on prayer, specifically looking at the Lord’s Prayer and the Psalms. When you look into the Psalms it’s hard to miss how raw and real the psalmists were when they spoke to God. I showed…
Read MoreYoung Life Camp Work Week Dates For College Students
Come join old friends and make tons of new ones at one of the upcoming Young Life camp work weeks. It’s a great opportunity to add another YL shirt to your collection…and to also help prepare summer camps for kids to experience the BEST WEEK OF THEIR LIVES! Cost FREE!! Your all-expense paid week will…
Read More10 Fresh Contact Work Ideas: Springtime Edition
Spring has arrived! If you need some fun, fresh, & frugal contact work ideas, you’re in luck. Grab your middle and high school friends and make some memories. Putt, Pitch, Punish (The YL-P3 Happy Gilmore Invitational) Grab a group of friends, a bag of golf clubs, and $15. Kids need no prior golf experience to…
Read MoreClub Game Of The Week: Trick-Shot Quarterback
Here’s a great club game to play now that it’s warming up outside. This game was created in the spirit of YouTube’s “Alex Tanney Trick-Shot Quarterback” videos. Set up two extended rows of various sizes of crates, bins, garbage cans, and other “targets.” Form two teams and give each one a football. Assign a leader…
Read MoreCapernaum YL: Name Tag Symbols
Name tags are helpful to have at your Capernaum club to help everyone (parents included) learn names. Many clubs have started putting this index of symbols on the backs of the leaders name tags as a reference and then if a friend has one of these needs, the appropriate symbol is placed under their…
Read MoreContact Work Cards
Special thanks to YLHelp.com for creating these sweet Contact Work Cards. Written by Sean McGever Contact work is the most distinctive and unique tool in the Young Life tool belt. Few other ministries do it, and even fewer do it the way Young Life leaders do. Yet, it is also the most challenging aspect of leadership…
Read MoreThe Reason For The Spring Slump In Young Life
Written Lindsay Fluker. Spring is definitely in the air, as yards are bursting with color and my friends at the high school talk of prom and spring break. I am the wife of a Young Life Area Director and a volunteer leader and over the years, I have come to have a love-hate relationship with…
Read MoreClub Game Of The Week: Twizzler Tie Up
Supplies 5 Twizzlers per Team of 2. How To Play Place everyone in teams of 2 and hand each team 5 Twizzlers. The goal for each team is to tie all 5 Twizzlers into a knot (a simple loop that is pulled together is fine). The catch is that they must work together as a…
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