Tim Keller spoke at the Young Life All Staff Conference in January. He preached from Mark 10 and powerfully shared the Gospel, answering these three questions: What did Jesus come to do? Why did He come to do it? How should this change us? You can watch/listen to the 35 minute talk here.
Anybody else wanna be a leader in Columbus? WOWSAHS! Check out this incredible New Leader Placement Ceremony. Consider the bar raised. 2012 Columbus Young Life Leader Placement Day from Nick Noggle on Vimeo. Here’s a link to more thoughts on “How To Initiate & Introduce New Leaders.”
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,…
John 8:1-11 Jesus went across to Mount Olives, but he was soon back in the Temple again. Swarms of people came to him. He sat down and taught them. The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sight of everyone and said, “Teacher,…
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…
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….
If you are a staff person looking for Christmas gift ideas for committee or leaders…If you are a volunteer leader looking for ideas for your high school friends…If you are a ridiculously selfish person, addicted to YL gear, looking for items to add to your own Christmas list…here are some ideas for you!The Diaries of Jim RayburnWhitecaps Media,…
Some vintage footage of Jim Rayburn talking about Young Life.
A Guest Post from Curtis Chesney All that I have ever known is the life of a Young Life staff kid. On August 19th, 1969, my Dad walked out of club and surrendered his life to Christ under a starry Colorado sky. Thus began his love affair with Christ and his relationship with Young Life. Twenty-one years later,…
Who’s smarter? Who’s funnier? Who’s better looking? Who has the cutest pair of Toms?Comparison is a thief of joy.And it often steals our joy, even in ministry, even in Young Life, even between teams in an area.”They have better leaders, I wish I was on that team.””Look how many kids they brought to camp.””I saw that video they…
Our Area Leader Retreat was this past weekend. It was good for my soul. We spent an hour praying together on Saturday morning, but it was weird. Our Area Director asked us to do something I don’t really remember ever doing. He said “Pray for yourselvesout loud. Don’t pray for kids, don’t pray for Young Life, but lift…
We have a dilemma. Three weeks ago I spoke at a church about Young Life. After the service, a guy in his mid twenties approached me, excited about the possibility of getting involved as a leader. Ten years ago he had been a student at the same high school where I lead. He said, “After hearing that today,…
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;…
There’s a pretty hilarious Twitter account out there that all Young Life leaders need to follow. It’s call “Total Young Life Move” and you can follow it@totalYLmove on Twitter. Here is a little sampling from their Twitter feed: “After 4 years of leading yl in college I realize I have more gear from the high school I lead…
Yesterday I was jumping in my ’95 Camry in a hurry when my neighbor, Tommy, yelled my name. I had my handy iPhone earbuds already in, ready to multi-task with a phone call while driving, but hadn’t dialed yet. I considered pretending my “music” was too loud and ignoring my neighbor with whom I hadn’t made eye contact,…
