UPDATED Spring Calendar
Assassination: The Game

Rules:
The object of the game is to be the last assassin standing on September 5th. How will you do that? You will receive a name of an individual that you are to assassinate. You must then hunt, stalk, and eventually shoot your assigned target with the water pistol provided or a similar caliber pistol purchased at a fine local retailer. Once you make your hit, text or call 480-209-2049 to confirm ASSASINATION. Once you are shot you out of the game. After you kill your target, you take their target and begin to hunt down their person. There is no limit to how many times you can assassinate others.
If you know who is trying to assassinate you, you may shoot them before they shoot you. This would kill your assassinator and you will have 24 hours of assassination free hunting. If your target becomes eliminated in this manner, call 480-209-2049 for a new target.
If there are multiple people still in the game as of midnight on September 4th, the first person to shoot the Grand Master will be crowned Assassination Champion. Championship victory is FREE LEADER WEEKEND.
- No Shooting at Work, Church, During Class, or at a Young Life event.
- No entering someone’s house unless you are invited in by someone in the house. Forced entry is not permitted.
| ASSASSIN | ...12 left!!!! |
| Holland | Boone |
| Kate | Clarke |
| Kasi | Felix (HS) |
| Fritz | Goins |
| Kelly | Gray |
| Noah | Harkey |
| Rachael | Isaac (HS) |
| Amy | Northrup |
| Chris | Prendergrast |
| Clare | Richardson |
| Luke | Samuels (HS) |
| Elyssa | Urquhart |
Fall 2008 Prayer Calendar
Any New Club Song Ideas?

Focus on 10...or 12

I carry a large burden when it comes to kids. I want to reach as many as I can. As a matter of fact I carry the burden for our entire club...even though others leaders do a great job and carry a similar weight.
Team Get-A-Ways
Campaigners: Location Location Location

Before I knew anything about Real Estate I was told: Location is everything. I now own 2 homes and only "kinda" bought into that philosophy. However, I am certain that good Campaigners are spawn out of a similar theme.
Club: Goals

Do you ever feel weird about counting kids in club or perhaps an emphasis placed on numbers going to camp? It is a funny balance. "Numbers People" (like myself) will argue that we want to reach EVERY kid. EVERY is a number. It means ALL. But before we get to EVERY we need to get from 40 to 50 (if you are a "non-numbers person" you are now cringing).
Campaigners: Be a Teacher and Go DEEP

Leading a Campaigner lesson might be one of the most difficult things you do as an "up front" leader in Young Life. Why? First, and most importantly, there is an assumption that you (THE LEADER) know the scripture WITH MORE DEPTH then the kids whom you are teaching.
Club: Events
Club: Themes

Club: Does Club Still Work?
There are many good reasons to have club. But those are not the real reasons -- not if I'm honest. Club is good for me. After 20 years of leading meetings, it still isn't easy. I don't know if I will ever get used to the pressure of wondering whether any kids will come. So why do I still do it? Let me try toarticulate a few reasons:
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Committee: Ways to Get Involved

Kid Support
- Visit club or Campaigners – you’re always welcome, just ask.
- Help at a weekend camp – drive, counsel or be a head leader. Ask if there is something you can do. Help plan a parents’ night and follow up with parents who visit.
- Organize or participate in a special event – square dance, work-a-thon, Christmas club, alumni club, Valentine’s club, etc.
- Help raise camp scholarship money.
Leadership Support
- Get to know a leader better.
- Host a team meeting in your home.
- Adopt a leader, meet for breakfast or just pray and care however God may lead.
- Baby-sit for leaders who have children.
- Coordinate a prayer ministry around a school team.
Community Involvement
- Coordinate the use of adult guest spots at summer camps.
- Lead or participate in a moms’ Campaigners or dads’ breakfast study.
- Contact area service clubs and arrange for Young Life to get on the program.
- Work on church relations by meeting with pastors or church mission groups and sharing information about Young Life.
- Write, plan, prepare or help mail the area newsletter.
- Minister to the educational community: faculty and administration relations, teachers’ prayer breakfasts.
Leadership: How to get people to do what you want
Contact Work: Give a Dundee

The Office might be the best show on TV. The Dundee might be the best Award. How about getting a Dundee made for a contact work award. Its kinda like an employee of the month award Young Life style. Here are a few ideas for how it may won...
Contact Work: Waiting to Start Club till...
When you plan club you have to pick a day to start. For most areas this is the day or week following leader weekend. However, how about starting club once your team does a certain amount of contact work.
Club: Planning
The way I see it there are only a few ways to plan club.
Contact Work: Part 1
Two years ago I joined a Young Life Club that was loaded with kids. Our first club was packed with over 100 of them. It took all I had not to ask the same kid what his name was two weeks in a row.
Worship Song Books

There is nothing better then singing a song in church that nobody knows. You know, when you look around during the song and the only people singing are in the band. So many questions: Do I clap? Do I snap my fingers? You don't want to be that guy who starts singing just a bit before everyone else. Your buddy looks at you and laughs. All he is doing is thinking to himself, "Man, I almost sang there too. Now he is the idiot and I am just the guy who doesnt know if he should clap here."