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Camp Blitz (2 of 5): What I Bring As A Trip Leader To Camp
Tomorrow we leave for our summer YL trip, including the 15 hour (hopefully not longer!) bus ride. Here are a couple things I bring in addition to the normal stuff I bring as a leader: Bus Ride All of...
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Camp Blitz (3 of 5): What To Do At Camp With A New Christian
Lord willing, you will have the privilege of introducing, or reintroducing one of your teenage friends to Jesus Christ this summer while at a YL or WL camp. Here are a couple suggestions of what to do:...
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Camp Blitz (4 of 5): Have a Follow-Up Bible Study
Follow-up is more important than camp. Put another way, discipleship is more important than conversion (since discipleship includes conversion, see Mt 28:19-20). Discipleship is primarily more...
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Camp Blitz (5 of 5): Links for More Great Resources
-A huge list of camp resources from the team at the YL Leader Blog! -A great training guide for leaders at camp from YL Digital! –Great advice for those leaving their spouse and children for a week....
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Camp: Make the Good News of Jesus Your Aim (not Pain)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes – Romans 1:16. 1. God’s power to save people is found in the gospel. 2. In our desire...
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YL Square Dance How-To (Video and Cheat Sheet)
Howdy Partner! Many moons ago the infamous Rick Wilson pulled me aside and taught me how to lead the square dance at summer camp. I’ve been doing it ever since. Sometimes I do it for our club. I just...
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Camp Follow-Up Resources
We leave for camp on Friday and have been in thick of camp training. One of the universal things YL leaders learn in training is that camp is (at minimum) a two week commitment… the week of camp and...
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This year… Thrilled to buy Costco hotdogs after church
Over the summer I normally try to post a couple things that I learned over the previous school year. If you want see the series as it has developed over lots of years then click here. In our camp...
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938 Follow-up: Beginning with the end in mind
I can’t quite find where it began, but somewhere in the history of YL the tradition of the “9:38” page or “9:38” list began. A 9:38 list is a list of names you create and you commit to pray for...
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Feedback Needed… One-on-Ones Continued: Follow-up from Camp
The aim of YL is to reach out to young people and disciple them. To simplify it: we are to disciple. This is the second person plural active imperative from the Great Commission (Mt. 28:19)....
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This Year: Lessons I learned & learning right now (Part 1)
As I’ve done in the past, I’m writing a series of posts to capture a few things I’ve learned about leading Young Life and Wyldlife in the past year. I’m adding something new too. This year, I’m adding...
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