Join Young Life In Costa Rica This April
If you're seriously considering the call to serve Christ and kids somewhere overseas, come to San Jose, Costa Rica this spring to explore some possibilities! The International YL Information...
View ArticleHow To Care For Leaders, A Post For Committee Members
This week we received the email below from a Young Life committee member: Good Morning! I have recently become the "Leader Care" person on our YL committee. I'm looking for and brainstorming fun and...
View ArticleTen Commitments of a Young Life Leader
By the grace of God and through His mercy...I. I will work to give ever kid a look at the real Jesus Christ, as well as what living life in a relationship with Him is like, by spending time with them,...
View ArticleRecommended Reading For Young Life Leaders
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...
View ArticleCampaigners Study on Philippians
Todd Pinkston and the folks in Richardson, TX run a helpful website for YL leaders called CampaignersTraining.com. Todd recently posted a helpful seven week study on the book of Philippians that you...
View ArticleWhat Would Jesus Do If He Were A Young Life Leader
I recently read this post on MoreThanDodgeball.com and thought it was worth passing along. Thanks to Josh Griffin and Kurt Johnson for sharing it. What would Jesus do if he were a YL leader? Teach with...
View Article20 Things Campaigners/Senior Leaders Can Do On Club Day
Pray first.Wear a YL shirt to school.Invite friends that are disinterested in Jesus.Text your friends reminding them about club.Post about club on Instagram, Twitter, and fb.Give rides to...
View ArticleHow To Make Hilarious Good Morning Young Life Videos
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...
View ArticleSuperbowl Club: Tons of Ideas
If you're doing a Super Bowl themed club this week, here are a few ideas. Many of them were stolen fromYLHelp.com The Young Life Bowl Start an annual tradition before Superbowl club of having the...
View ArticleCampaigner Resource: Peter: Rocked by God
Chris Theule-VanDam, Young Life Regional Director for the Western Great Lakes Region (the western half of the state of Michigan along with northwest Indiana), has authored Peter: Rocked by God, with...
View ArticleWhat You Missed in January
For those of you who are new to this online community of Young Life leaders, welcome! My name is Drew Hill and I'm a YL leader in Greensboro, NC. (About Me)YoungLifeLeaders.org was created to be a...
View ArticleWas A Good Young Life Club?
A great club isn't always determined by the number of kids who were there. Here are some questions to help evaluate how club went:Was Jesus Christ lifted up? The good news of Jesus Christ must be...
View ArticleBest Week of Your Life: Young Life Camp Infomercial
A great camp promo video from Sammamish/Issaquah Young Life...Thanks for sharing this with us, @YLSkyline!
View ArticleThe Road Of Life
At first, I saw God as my observer, my judge, keeping track of the things I did wrong; so as to know whether I merited heaven or hell when I die. He was there sort of like a picture of a president. I...
View ArticleGuest Post: Ten Leader Declarations from the Book of Ephesians
This guest post is written by James Smith, a Young Life leader at AC Flora High School in Columbia, SC. James is a sophomore at the University of South Carolina majoring in International Business and...
View ArticleGuest Post: Hunger Games Club
Hey guys! My name is Alex Ridenour and I am on staff in Costa Rica with the International Schools. My team and I recently worked extremely hard to recreate a Young Life event the Real Life Hunger...
View Article"Graceful, Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life"- Win Copies For YourCampaigners...
Female Young Life leaders, I am excited to share with you an amazingCampaignersresource from one of my good friends. Meet Emily Freeman and her newest book Graceful. Emily is the woman behind...
View ArticleHow To Get Kids To Camp: Eliminating The Five Excuses
Most of us are convinced there are few better ways to introduce our friends to the Gospel than at Young Life camp. Most of us are also currently discouraged because many of our friends will not get...
View ArticleWall of Fame
One of our readers shared this great idea to incorporate into club week to week. "We photograph our game winners each week posing with a tiny plastic trophy. The next week we add their 8x10 pic to the...
View ArticleAsh Wednesday & The Season of Lent: A Campaigners Discussion
Originally posted Feb. 2012Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I didn't start practicing Lent until college when our Regional Director taught on the spiritual practice at a YL leadership...
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