Hilarious Club Game: “The Spit-Take”
You need: a bottle of waterthree pieces of paper with ten different pick-up lines on each piece of paper. Pick one girl and three guys to come up front for the game, and ask someone else to keep...
View Article7 Tips for Leading Great WyldLife Campaigners
It’s exciting to think about what God can do in and through middle school kids as they grow in their relationships with Christ. As you lead Campaigners, it is important to meet your middle school...
View ArticleWyldLife Campaigners Kick-off Questions
Start every Campaigners with an easy question that every kid can answer. Choose fun questions that middle school kids will feel comfortable answering. After each answer, follow up by asking “Why?”...
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Practical Help For Your Campaigners TEAM
To help us think through some of the non-negotiables of Campaigners, the Young Life Discipleship office has come up with the memorable acronym: T.E.A.M. As you’re planning for Campaigners this year,...
View ArticleTop-Kan: A Fun New Game for Club
Some of you have experienced the wonder of playing “Top-Golf,” the driving range of the future. Many of you have played Kan-Jam, the yard game of the decade. Last week, we invented a game called...
View Article“My Commitment” by Bill Goans (Friday Night Lights)
As long as high school kids mill around at ball games looking for love in all the wrong places… As long as they desperately seek an identity based on the opinions of friends and reputation… As long as...
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A Very Covid Costume Club
This was originally posted in the fall of 2020, but could be adapted to be used anytime! Halloween is just around the corner and we thought we’d share a few ideas that will work during this season of...
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Drive-Thru CAR-nival Club
This was originally posted in the fall of 2020, but could be adapted to be used anytime! Like many of you, we sadly missed getting to do the summer camp carnival this past summer, so we wanted to...
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Friends for Life
Friends for Life is the inspiring story of Mal McSwain and his decades of simple but profound ministry — “a ministry of accompaniment” — in the lives of thousands. When chatting to a non-Christian...
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The Benefits of Raising Children While Being on Young Life Military Staff
When my husband, Joey, and I moved from Dallas to Germany to work with Young Life Military (Club Beyond) we weren’t just uprooting our life, we were uprooting the life of our then three-year-old...
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The John Project
If you’re looking for something to read with your Campaigners group, small group, or one-on-one discipling, check out The John Project from YL Discipleship. It includes the entire gospel of John (New...
View ArticleStay Curious
“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy...
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My Story as a Military Brat
In the United States, you may hear the term “Military Brat” to describe a child of a parent or parents who serve or have served in the U.S. Military. The lifestyle and childhood of a “Military Brat”...
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Global Day of Prayer
We are celebrating our 80th birthday as a mission in October, and Young Life’s Mission Lead Team would like to start the party by offering you a special gift! Please set aside Tuesday, October 5 for...
View ArticleContact Work Feels Different
After a year of connecting through screens and meeting up while masked, many of us are finding Contact Work a little more clunky than before. Thirteen months of living with some degree of isolation...
View ArticleLOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING: THE GIFT OF THE DAILY EXAMEN
The first time I heard the phrase was from my parents. The second time, it was a teacher. Later, crossing guards and others burned it into my memory. The instruction was simple: look both ways before...
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7 “Socially Distant” Club Games
We gathered a few suggestions from our Alongside: Young Life Leaders Facebook group for socially distant games and compiled them here for you! Slugfest First, we played a few innings of Shaving Cream...
View ArticleWho Owns the Work?
I’ve always loved the parable of the sower in Mark 4 and have taught on it more times than I can count, but about 10 years ago I noticed something significant about this passage that has encouraged me...
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Beyonce, the Netherlands, and unexpected grace
Happy end-of-summer, folks! My name is Ginny and I am a Young Life Area Director for international schools in The Netherlands. I moved here right before the pandemic to start Young Life and am...
View ArticleThe Most Important Text Message You’ll Send This Semester
Many of our friends recently graduated high school and are now starting college. What happens during those first weeks of college will significantly influence, not only their next four years but the...
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