Summer will be here before you know it…and many of us will be spending a month at a Young Life property serving on Work Crew, Summer Staff, or an Assigned Team. If you’d like to meet your future friends before you even get to camp, let’s make it happen! Many of you have already joined a Facebook Group…
Once upon a time there were two rival basketball teams, both wore the color blue. One team’s shade of blue was pleasant, lighter, and seemingly the preferred color of the Creator of the sky. The other team wore a darker shade, the blue associated with sadness, and even was represented by a devilish mascot. The two teams represented…
As most of you are aware, today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I didn’t start practicing Lent until college when our YL Regional Director taught on it at a leadership meeting. With each year, this Lenten season grows more personally significant and is consistently a time of deeper intimacy with the Lord. The term ‘Lent’ comes…
This is a fun idea to steal and make for your own club. It could also be combined with the traditional Young Life “Irate Neighbor Skit.”
This weekend a few of us from our area led music at Windy Gap for Columbia, SC and Lake Norman, NC Winter Camp. Here is a link to download our set list from the weekend. It’s also listed below with links to download the guitar chords for the newer content songs you might not yet use in club….
With spring sports practices starting this week, it’s about time to welcome in that warm weather with some pre-club yard games. You might already have a YL cornhole set, and maybe ladder golf, but do you haveSPIKEBALL? In November we gave away our first Spikeball set (Retail Value $50) to lucky winner and YL leader Amy Fanning,and because…
On Monday during second lunch, I was introduced to two freshmen girls I’d never met…and to my pleasant surprise, seven hours later, they came to club for the first time! After club I walked them to the gravel parking lot to meet one of their dads who was waiting in his truck. As we approached, the window rolled…
Last October I posted “Four Keys To A 30 Second Dance Party.” While it’s one of my favorite ‘club elements,’ a problem we encounter is finding bumpin’, yet clean, dancin’ music to play during the 30 seconds. When I recently ran across this video below, I knew we had to play it on the screen during our next…
A funny 2 minutes from Knoxville Young Life leaders! If you make a funny Young Life video and want to share it, please pass it along! Email YL1941 at gmail dot com.
Last Saturday the Wall Street Journal published an insightful, yet heavily controversial article about the teenage mind. In it, Alison Gopnik, Psych prof at Cal-Berkeley, attempts to explain why teenagers consistently make harmful decisions. It is vital for us as Young Life leaders to constantly be learning about teenagers. It’s why I read my Twitter feed. Articles like…
This upcoming Monday, let’s get #YoungLife TRENDING ON TWITTER! If you’re new to Twitter, one of the ways the Twitterverse stays up to date on what’s HOT is by watching what’s trending on Twitter. (Read more about Twitter Trends) Here at the beginning of this semester, let’s all work together to pump up the momentum for Young Life…
Sometimes we get crazy and raise the bar a bit. We go above and beyond the joys of PowerPoint, and use this sweet free program called Prezi. It is way cool. Trust me. Below are two downloadable Superbowl Trivia games you can use. The first one is for use before the Superbowl (if you’re having a Superbowl party)…
For those of you who are new to this online community of Young Life leaders, welcome! My name is Drew and I’m a volunteer leader in NC (About Me). This site was created for you. It’s intended to be a place of encouragement and resourcing. Currently thousands of Young Life leaders around the globe interact here on a…
