Do you need some creative contact work ideas to close out the summer or kick off the fall? Here are seven ideas you might not have pulled out of your bag yet. Leisure Dive I tweeted this idea out last week, but it’s a guaranteed winner. It’s the new “planking.” All you need is a camera and a…
How amazing would it be if you got some of your high school friends fired up about making a lip-dub video like this to promote the first Young Life club of the semester? Pretty stinkin’ amazing! If anyone decides to go crazy and do this, be sure to email me the video and I’ll post it on the…
I got a tweet today asking if we had any good ideas for new songs to put on the YL playlist. I’m sure many of you, like me, have a playlist on your iPod entitled “YL Club Music.” We play songs from it before club, after club, as kids enter club, during games, etc… It always seems difficult…
Summer is a busy time for Young Life Leaders. You’re gone to camp, vacation, summer staff, etc… You probably don’t have time to read all the blog posts you may have missed from the past couple months, so I thought I’d try to save you some time and give you the links to the most popular posts from…
5 Strategies For Vibrant Leadership In Young Life A Guest Post by Hugh Jones, Volunteer Leader in North CarolinaHere is a list of essential ingredients to an effective Young Life Ministry:Understand your calling. You must be called by Christ to enter the Ministry of Young Life. It can be trying and difficult to be a Young Life leader;…
ThankIf you’re allowed on campus, write a thank you note to the principal at your high school.Read“Dance Children Dance” by Jim Rayburn III. Few things will better kick-start your Young Life year.ChurchAsk your church to commission you as a “missionary” to the high school. You need to be sent out from your local body with prayer and support….
As a follow up to yesterday’s letter from Pastor John, here’s an idea I learned this year from Megan, a leader on my Young Life team. Megan is a kid magnet. She’s one of those artsy types that dresses funky, but pulls it off. Girls are attracted to her creativity and confidence. God wired her to be a…
Pastor John did not actually submit this post to be published on The Young Life Leader Blog, but I’m sure he’s happy to share with all the Young Life leaders reading it. Below is a response letter that Piper wrote to a young person in his church after the teenager had asked for advice on life and identity….
Many of you saw some amazing blobs this summer, like some of these in this video from Rockbridge: But have you ever witnessed a blob like this? Wowsahs! If you have some high school friends with video editing skills, it might be a funny idea to take some video footage you shot at camp of kids blobbing and…
Tired of summer movies? Looking for something fun to do with your high school friends tonight? How bout putting together a lil game of Kung Fu Volley Soccer!
The initial idea for The Young Life Leader Blog was to create a space where Young Life leaders can share ideas and encouragement with one another. Would YOU be willing to share any creative ideas, crazy club games, encouraging stories, lessons learned, hot new songs, a strike of contact work genius, or anything else you have to offer…
Thanks to the wonderful world of Google Reader, its easy to regularly follow some helpful youth ministry blogs. This week I read a guest post on youth pastor Doug Field’s blog that I thought was worth sharing. It was written by David Hertweck who serves the Assemblies of God in the state of New York as their District…
Thanks so much to those of you who give input on how the blog can be improved. To respond to some of that feedback, I’ll be making some aesthetic tweaks over the next few days to hopefully make it easier to read. Please feel free to leave any feedback in the comments below. I want this to be…
Tonight NBC will air the final episode of, in my humble opinion, the best TV show of all time, Friday Night Lights. You can already watch the 5th and final season on Hulu Plus and DVD, because it originally aired on DirecTV, but tonight finishes the show for most of the viewing world. I myself was a late-comer…
Hearing about other Young Life leaders laying their lives down for their high school friends encourages me to do the same. Summer is a time when its easy to get slack and “take a break” from really investing in kids, but few things motivate me more than watching my friends who are YL leaders really ‘gettin’ it done.’…
