Spikeball: A HUGE Discount For All Young Life Leaders
A guest post from Thomas Summers, volunteer YL Leader in Williamson County, TN and Director of Community Development for Spikeball, Inc.More and more YL leaders are playing Spikeball with their high...
View ArticleYoung Life Camp: Work Week Dates & Information
In college, some friends and I had a tradition of celebrating the end of exams with a trip to Windy Gap Work Week! During those weeks we made a ton of new friends and had the privilege of helping...
View ArticleThe Reason For The Spring Slump In Young Life
A guest post from Lindsay Fluker, staff wife and volunteer leader in Griffin, GA. Originally posted March, 2013.Spring is definitely in the air, as yards are bursting with color and and my friends at...
View ArticleThe Best Contact Work Ideas: Springtime Edition
The ideas below are fun, fresh, & frugal. Grab your middle/high school friends and make some memories. Putt, Pitch, Punish (The YL-P3 Happy Gilmore Invitational)Grab a group of friends, a bag of...
View ArticleNew Young Life Summer Camp Dress Code Policy
The Young Life Service Center released an executive memo today regarding camp dress code policy. With the upcoming summer camping season quickly approaching, two significant changes have been made to...
View ArticleRindercella Script
If you're looking for a good script to help you memorize the classic Tairy Fale, Rendercella, here ya go!Here's a video of John May telling the story at Woodleaf.Once upon a time in a coreign fountry...
View ArticleThe Rayburn Awards: How To Celebrate The Year's End In YL Style
If you're on YL staff and looking for a fresh way to celebrate your leaders in May, how bout 'The Rayburn Awards?"Last May, San Diego North YL posted a helpful idea about how they celebrated their...
View ArticleThe Young Life Leader Free App of the Day: VideoShop
Almost every Monday night around 10pm I spend 10 minutes on my iPhone making a short highlight video from club. At the end of the semester it's easy to edit those videos together for a full semester...
View ArticleHe Didn't Know I Was Missing
Tucker is a sophomore at the school where I lead Young Life. His family isn't connected to a local church. After fall camp in October I invited him to check out our Campaigners group. He said he...
View ArticleA Young Life Leader's Guide To Prom Season
Originally posted Spring 2012.Prom season is upon us.Below are a few ways we as Young Life leaders can serve our high school friends, parents, and school administrations.PRE-PROMDress/Tux Shopping Go...
View ArticleHow Spring Break Broke My Heart
Originally posted spring 2012.I've tried to avoid social media this week.It's Spring Break for my high school friends and the few tweets I've read (and Instagram's I've seen) have broken my heart. It...
View ArticleFrozen In 2 Minutes: A Young Life Leader Skit
"2 Minute Movies" have become one of the classic YL skits performed by program teams at summer camps. Here's a script for 'The 2 Minute Titanic" put together by Chris Cockerham. Here's a video of a...
View ArticleFROZEN CLUB
Do you want to build a snowman? Of course you do! 'Frozen Club' will for sure be a hit for Wyldlife clubs and high school gals. High School guys? Maybe not so much, but it's still worth doing. Lots of...
View ArticleHow To Make Senior Club The Biggest Night of the Year
If you've not yet held your final club for the school year, the end is in sight. It’s become somewhat of a Young Life tradition to end each year with “Senior Club,” giving the graduating seniors a...
View ArticleThe Dale House Project: Job Openings Working With At-Risk Teenagers
You may have read this article about The Dale House in this month's issue of Relationships magazine. If you're a recent college grad still trying to figure out what to do with this next year, I can't...
View Article'Fully Loved' YL Shirts For Sale: ALL PROCEEDS SEND KIDS TO SUMMER CAMP
Many folks have requested turning the 'Fully Loved' YL logo into a shirt. Your wish has been granted. For a limited time, only the next 2 weeks, shirts are being sold at Teespring.com/YoungLife. You...
View ArticleSummer Movies 2014: Opening Dates
Many of our high school friends have already been infected with summer-itis...and that means it's almost time for summer movies to begin. In fact, the first blockbuster film debuts this weekend.Our job...
View ArticleAn Easy Way To Make Summer Camp Shirts
Did you know you can design your own summer camp shirts at the online Young Life Store? You can also choose from tons of other products as well.It's super easy and all you need is a minimum order of 24...
View Article40 Reasons To Pursue Sexual Purity
Originally posted in May 2012.Last night at Campaigners we studied 1 Corinthians 6:16-20. Guys were surprisingly mature, but reluctant to go deep. I asked them why they thought we should pursue sexual...
View ArticleArms Wide Open: A Book Giveaway For YL Leaders
A guest post from Kristen Baird, volunteer Young Life leader in Nashville, TN. Kristen also works for Thomas Nelson Publishing and is giving away 10 free books below! Raise your hand if you’ve ever...
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