Can’t think of a better thing to do with your middle and high school friends tomorrow, April 9th. Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s noon-8pm. Do it.  Find your nearest Ben & Jerry’s here.  HT to @BostonYoungLife for the reminder. 

Traditional “Good Morning Young Life” wake-up videos are a great way to create buzz for your YL Club. While it seems like an easy, no-brainer idea, it actually has lots of ways it can go wrong and not be as funny as you intended. 22 Helpful Tips To Making Hilarious GMYL Videos 1. Pick the right kids to…

For Christmas I got a Kindle Paperwhite and I’m a huge fan! As a result, I’m reading a lot more these days. I’d love to get a good list going on here of recommended books for Young Life leaders. I’ll start and would love for you to comment below or email us here with books you’d recommend. Once…

Here’s some help as you’re planning club for this semester. Some of the clubs we’ve done in the past have detailed club plans if you click the links below. My hope is to write out plans as we do each club and post them as the semester progresses. We’d love to hear what you’re planning as well, so…

My wife and I have a New Year’s Eve tradition we’ve come to love.  Dinner combined with a little reflecting and 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 2012,” on the other “Hopeful in 2013.” We…

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…

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…

Lots of high school kids, especially guys, love to play paintball. Something about it creates a “male bonding” experience that lends to stories being retold around cafeteria tables. Maybe its the war wounds that look like hickeys. Maybe its just an excuse to wear camo and hide in the woods. Whatever it is, paintball seems to quickly transport…

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