This week, on Tuesday March 6th, Oreo cookies turn 100 years old. I know, its hard to believe, they still look so young, so fresh, so organic. What better excuse do you need to bring back a few of the most classic Young Life games of all time? You could also celebrate the night by asking some parents…
A few Young Life leaders in our area we’re hanging at our house last night and had an impromptu brainstorm session of how to initiate new leaders. Most of our ideas were quite hilarious, yet entirely unusable. So, to find something we could actually do without being fired, we turned to the friends who never let us down,…
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…
Most of you have already put together your club plans for the semester. If not, this linkhas lots of ideas. Here is how we laid out our semester: Jan 23- HOTT CLUB Jan 31- All-City Club Feb 6- Superbowl Club Feb 13- The Blind Bachelor/Bachelorette Club Feb 20- YL’s Got Talent (Talent Show) Feb 27- Game Show Club…
We have a German exchange student at our high school. He went to Young Life camp for the first time a few months ago and was blown away. After watching the program guys at camp, he opened up a ton and volunteered to be in a few skits at club. Andy Thompson, a volunteer leader in Littleton, Colorado,…
Thanks to an anonymous comment left on the blog, this semester our club will be reenacting a version of this SNL skit below. We’ll start with a few female leaders, being joined by some high school jocks, guy leaders, and hopefully I can talk my two year old daughter into being the crying finale’.
Last summer I posted 39 Theme Club Ideas.This post takes those 39 ideas and adds a “few” more. Hopefully it will help in the marathon-YL-Team-semester-planning-meeting that’s coming up this week. (Apologies that I didn’t get it out sooner for those of you who have already met and planned.) Last January I posted this Spring Semester schedule. Hopefully it…
Mason Rutledge, YL Regional Director of Western Washington, recently shared an article on public speaking to help those of you who will be giving club talks this upcoming semester. The article is written by Eric Schurenberg and adapted from a book by public speaking coach Sims Weyth. You can read ten highlights from the article below and find…
By now, most everyone with pupils has seen this “The Sexy Sax Man” viral YouTube video. But what does that have to do with Young Life? Last semester I was talking with one of my high school friends and the conversation went kind of like this… “Hey man, I know you pretty much run the school now, but…
I use Google Reader as my RSS feed to follow a few other Youth Ministry blogs. (If you would like to subscribe to The Young Life Leader Blog via Google Reader, just click this link.) Yesterday in my Reader I discovered the hilarious video below on MorethanDodgeball.com After I watched it, I sent the video link to two…
Thanks a ton to 50 of you for commenting on the Spikeball Contest post this week. You answered the question, “What is your favorite pre-club activity with kids?” Below are 25 of the top responses. Such a diversity of ideas is getting me excited about creating some new pre-club momentum. Thanks again for sharing!MY FAVORITE IDEAS:Tron (via Mat)…
Even though it’s getting chilly outside, there’s always a great opportunity to play some booyah new yard games. A game that might be new to many of you is SPIKEBALL! I first learned of the game this summer while at Sharptop Cove. It’s an intense mix between four square and volleyball, described on the Spikeball web site as…
Nate Cox, Military Young Life staff in Hawaii, recently shared this hilarious “Good Morning Young Life” video. If you have never done “Good Morning Young Life,” here are 21 tips to take your videos to the next level. Here is another post on how to take your “Run-on characters”to the next level as well, which is a great…
Lately I’ve received a few emails from folks who are beginning to plan for Christmas Club, looking for ideas. Some of you have heard of the “Mr. Christmas Tree Pageant” idea that I believe was started by Brian Summerall in Texas (please correct me in the comments below if I’m wrong.) We did it last year and it…
Each week at YL clubs around the world, many leaders attempt to give “announcements” that are often quickly forgotten. Here’s a few ideas to help make your club announcements more memorable.WHENEnd Of ClubChoosing when you do your announcements is key. We have found the most effective time to be at the very end of club, after the talk….
