This brand new video is a MUST ADD to your Thanksgiving themed club. Move over Rebecca Black, Hello Nicole Westbrook! As painful as it is, hang on til the 3 minute mark. Yep. She uses a turkey leg as a microphone. For the past 70 years Young Life has had zero Thanksgiving-themed pop songs to sing at Thanksgiving…
This guest post is written by David Freels, YL leader in Knoxville, TN. We put a new twist on a classic Young Life skit: “Little Nemo”. I saw Nemo as a club kid 30 years ago and it was so funny that it was areason I wanted to come back to a club. So I guess I may…
Due to the nature of this post being video heavy, it probably will take a few seconds to load. Our area banquet is coming up next week. Last year we borrowed Colt Helton’s “Friday Night Lights” video idea. I’ve watched our area’s version of it 10+ times and still boo hoo like a teething baby. Here’s the Chattanooga…
In addition to the Presidential election, many of our high school friends will be discussing their favorite plants at the lunch tables today. Yesterday the states of Colorado and Washington became the first to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. While it’s still illegal on a federal level, the Colorado state law will allow adults over 21 to…
Here’s the link to an intriguing 14 minute TED talk from Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on ‘The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain.’ You can download a transcript of the talk here.
This guest post was written by Tripp Graziano. Tripp is a YL leader in NC and the Director of The Greensboro Fellows program we’ve previously mentioned on the blog. Greensboro Fellows will soon begin taking applications for the fall of 2013. Slippery ice, very thin, Pretty girl tumbles in, Saw a boy on the bank, Gave a shriek, then…
Today’s post is written by Texas YL staffer and newlywed Kate Habicht Quinn. I read it on the Richardson YL Area Blog and thought it was so beautiful I asked Kate if I could share it on here. After arriving home from our honeymoon Monday morning at 5am pretty tired, we knew we had to pep up because…
If you’re a staff person looking for Christmas gift ideas for committee or leaders… If you’re a volunteer leader looking for ideas for your high school friends… If you’re a ridiculously selfish person, addicted to YL gear, looking for items to add to your own Christmas list…here are some ideas for you! Letters To A Young Life Leader…
Drums drumming. Wrapping presents. Serving cross-culturally in your own country. Delivering Christmas cheer. Being Santa. Being Christ with skin on. If you’ve ever seriously considered the call to serve Christ and kids overseas, we’d like to meet you. International Information Expedition Navajo Reservation Crownpoint, New Mexico December 15-19, 2012 This is a required step in the International…
Special thanks to Brad and Kelli Barron, on YL staff in the UK, for sending the email below. My wife and I just saw the screening of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and we were blown away by the response afterwards. As the credits began to roll we noticed clusters of kids standing up, group-hugging and crying…
In our YL team leader meeting yesterday our Area Director asked us to talk through the following questions with our YL teams. How many times was your team at the school this week collectively? What ‘outside of school’ contact work was done this week? How many ‘one on one’s did your team do? What have you done to…
