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…
What do you do if your Young Life club is on Monday nights, conflicting with the desires of many high school girls to watch “The Bachelor” at 8pm on ABC? We haven’t yet started club back after Christmas break, but last night I saw on Twitter that lots of high school gals had gathered together to watch the…
A few days ago I tried to write a serious/humorous combo post for today, the first day of 2012, on 12 New Year’s Resolutions that we as YL leaders could make in 2012. My futile attempt crashed and burned, more so fizzled out…I tried to come up with twelve good ones, but only got seven that were halfway…
These are the ten most popular post of 2011 (according to web traffic). Enjoy! 1. 39 Theme Club Ideas 2. A Ton of Club Song Mashups 3. Who’s Your Eric 4. 8 Things Every YL Leader Needs To Do Before Club Starts 5.When Leaders Cry 6.Questions We Need To Be Asking 7.I Lost Control 8.Why So Many Freshmen…
In case you missed the NBA season opening video yesterday, here it is, featuring the music of some of our favorite Young Life musicians, Drew & Ellie Holcomb.
My wife and I have a little New Year’s Eve tradition we’ve come to love. Dinner combined with a little reflecting/dreaming. We head to a restaurant and bring two sheets of paper. Nat gets one, I get the other. On one side of each paper we write “Thankful in 2011,” on the other “Hopeful in 2012.” We spend…
A guest post from Kristalyn Simler. A few years ago my husband and I ventured to Costa Rica with International Young Life because God had laid it on our hearts to serve there, through a way that we knew could only be God. We led Young Life at an International School. The classes were taught in English, 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…
Some people think the Bible is a book of rules, telling you what you should and shouldn’t do. The Bible certainly does have some rules in it. They show you how life works best. But the Bible isn’t mainly about you and what you should be doing. It’s about God and what he has done. Other people think…
A guest post from Niki Crowe, volunteer YL leader in Clarksville, TN. I was a freshman in high school. My Young Life leader and friends were all standing around a charter bus getting ready to head to Rockbridge, VA. I was nervous because my leader told me to come with bags ready although I had not raised enough…
Young Life leader Pete Kidder recently submitted the following article written by John Piper. Pete writes “I found this Piper article on “Adultolescents” very interesting. This is a recent phenomenon sweeping college aged and young adults. As a potential problem for the age group that YL leaders usually fall into it might be worth discussing on the YLLB….
Shoutouts to the folks below for submitting a ton of great club song mashups. If you have one you’d like to add, please email me at YL1941 at gmail dot com and I’ll add it to this post. Wes Emery in Clemson, SC. Eric Hoskins, AD in Birmingham, Bama Slate Fluker, AD in Griffin, GA Northside Chicago YL…
In the blue bar above this post there are five “page” links. Home About Me Popular Posts Submitting A Guest Post Ask The fifth page, “ASK,” is simply a place for you to email in YL related questions you would love answered or discussed on the YLLB. Sam Travers, a Wyldlife leader in central Illinois, recently submitted the…
An Advent Prayerby Henri NouwenLord Jesus, Master of both the light and the darkness,send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We who have so much to do,seek quiet spaces to hear your voice each day. We who are anxious over many things,look forward to your coming among us.We who are blessed in so many ways,long for the complete joy…
If you missed last week’s three posts on The Dale House Project, you can catch up here through these links: Got Plans After College? Recognizing God Lessons Learned Here’s another guest post, this one written by DHP training staff Cody Mitts. After spending almost 5 months on staff at The Dale House Project, I began to realize that…
Two videos. Two stories. The first is one of desperation. The second, one of hope. Thanks to Andy Thompson, leader in Littleton, CO for sharing the first video and to Catherine Roach, YL leader in Winston-Salem, NC for allowing us to share her story on the YLLB. What videos can you share that have moved your heart? Please…
Disturb us, O Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little when we have arrived in safety because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, O Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess we have lost our thirst for the Water…
