Ladera Ranch Laser Tag

A couple weekends ago I had the chance to play laser tag with 16 middle schoolers and a new volunteer leader, Matt Wright, from Ladera Ranch. 

I forgot how much fun laser tag could be!!

But more importantly, this really gave me the chance to get to know some of the guys as we compared scores and investigated our score sheets seeing who shot who. I felt like I really started getting to know some of the boys there, many of whom I'd never met before.

After laser tag we are pizza, and had a "mini club", meaning, we played a game and I got to share a bit about why I am so excited about starting WyldLife... In case you didn't know, it's because it gives me the opportunity to share Jesus and his incredible love with them!

I compared God and Santa, using the song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" to show how creepy Santa is, and how loving God is. I talked about how God is not making a list or waiting for us to mess up, but that he couldn't stand being separated from us so he came closer, through Jesus, and showed us how to live life the best way possible.

It was a really great time and I had several parents email me the following week to let me know how excited they were about WyldLife! 

Please continue praying that we are able to get more invested in kids lives, that we are able tower wth kids between now and the next semester, and that support, both financially and in other ways, continues to come in.

Thank you so much!

- Luke Bright

Praying for the 2013-2014 School Year

Hello Friends

Please continue to be praying for Young Life as we move into this next school year. We have specific needs to be praying for here are just some of them.....

• More Leaders- Every one of our clubs can use more leaders
• Team Leaders- We have hopes for 2 new clubs this year but need the leadership
• Location for our Dana Club
• Financial Resources- It takes money to continue to grow Young Life
• More Prayer Warriors- We meet every Monday and pray, would you consider joining us?

Thanks for looking at our prayers for this next year and being willing to serve Young Life!!!

-Dave

Wyldlife Life Club

Club this week was one of those Clubs where us as leaders just have to sit back and thank God for getting to do what we do. Of course it was filled with funny games and raffle prizes and lots of laughter and excited conversations about our up coming trip to camp in June. 

The real reason this week was so amazing was i got to speak on what it means to have Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior and that he just wants to walk with us in all that we do and be there for us no matter what. I had the pleasure of leading them in a prayer where they had the chance to except Jesus into their hearts and make a decision to follow him and love people the way he calls us to love one another! 

We had 8 kids make this life changing decision! I'm in awe of God's faithfulness, please pray for these young people and us as their leaders that we can live life along side of them and continue to follow him. 

-Dmar

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Young Life- Dave Jansen
26542 Paseo Belardes
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675

Wyldlife..... Why Knot??

Hello all i hope everyone is enjoying our first few weeks of spring! I know all the kids and leaders have been at Wyldlife! This week we had great weather we started off with a great game of THE HUMAN KNOT ! it was awesome also played a game called the oreo stack witch was Hilarious!! at the end of club after the games i shared a story from the bible on John 9 about the man that jesus healed that was blind from birth, i was able to share with them the good news and give them a little story from my life that tied it all together with practical life application! it was awesome! 

-Dmar

Big Air Wyldlife Club

Last Tuesday we got be part of a really cool opportunity! I am of the coaches for the Marco Forester Surf Team and I had set up an event to go to the new trampoline park called Big Air! The other coaches were nice enough to invite our Wyldlife club to join the surf team on their big air trampoline park adventure! It was an amazing opportunity because we got to introduce most of the surf team and their parents to what Wyldlife is and what its all about and at the same time get crazy and jump on some trampolines! It was an amazing success and we all had a blast! Attached are some photos from our day of "bouncing off the walls" literally!

-Dmar

Wyldlife Club

We had an amazing club this last week! We had over 20 kids attend and to say the least it got wild! 

We started with a great classic game called the balloon stomp! Basically everyone has a balloon tied to their leg and you have to keep your balloon full of air and "stomp" everyone else's! It was quite the site! Everyone hopping around and screaming and going crazy it was hilarious! 

Then we brought it inside and played the old spit popcorn onto your leaders face that is caked with shaving cream, haha it was awesome. Then of course i gave a little talk on the gospels and the good news of Jesus! 

Attached are a photo of the game this week! 

Thank you for your prayer and support! Have a blessed week!

-Dmar

Wyldlife Winter Camp- 2012

Hello all i hope everyone is enjoying the winter weather! 

I'm sending out a little update about our Wyldlife camp we just attended last weekend. Myself and one other leader from our club took 3 boys down for an amazing weekend camp at Oakbridge in Ramona, California. 

The camp was full of fun games and awesome time hanging out together and building awesome relationships with these 3 awesome guys! Noah, Andrew, and Jack. To say the least we had an amazing weekend and are all super excited about summer camp which is 5 days long! But most importantly they got to hear the good news about Jesus and we had some awesome talks processing who Jesus is and what he is in our lives! 

Its such a joy to get to be apart of these kids lives and walk through these steps of belief and understanding about not only Jesus but who they are and who they want to be and everything in-between. 

Attached are a few pictures from the weekend i hope you enjoy! And thanks for all your prayers and support.

-Dmar

Wyldlife Halloween Club

Hello all, I hope the week is going well for you! We had a great Wyldlife club last week! It was our Halloween dress up club and the kids had a blast! The night was great with a few games and lots of laughing. 

In other Wyldlife news myself and a few other of our leaders are volunteer surf coach's at Marco Forester middle school and we had our first surf competition this past Saturday. Happy to say we placed 4th overall! and it was an amazing weekend of amazing waves and perfect weather. 

I've put a few photos up from club and a few photos from the surf contest! Hope you have a great Halloween and everyone is safe!

-Dmar

God IS Moving in South County YL!!

Hey Everyone,

It's been an amazing summer and I have so much to tell about what God has been doing in South County!

This summer we took about 80 people to camp. We had 4 different camps and all of them were great! We took students to Woodleaf, Lost Canyon, & Oakbridge.

Area Prayer is going amazing! Each week we have people come and join Megan and I in prayer for the area. It has been so rad to witness God showing up and truly moving in our area and answering prayers! If you would like to come it happens every Monday morning at 9am. Please come and join us!

This summer I had one week in particular that 2 different youth pastors from Laguna Beach contacted me. After meeting with both of them we are establishing joint efforts in reaching the students of Laguna Beach. Young Life used to be in LB numerous years ago. It is exciting to God moving again in Laguna and that YL has a chance to be apart of it.

In the beginning of the month we had our 1st Area Leadership Meeting with over 50 people there. We had a time of worship which was a rad time to prepare our hearts for the beginning of the year. We spent the first part of our meeting sharing a meal together (which is something we will do every meeting, if you would like to help with that please let me know). After that we had a bit of business to go over, split into our club teams, and then spent 45 minutes just worshipping God. The area will be having leadership meeting every 1st Sunday of the month.

This month also saw the launching of a region wide Student Staff training. This training is specifically for our part-time staff, key leaders, and anyone who just wants to learn more. The course will definitely be stretching and a great learning experience for those attending. They will be challenged to not only grow in their leadership but also their spiritual walk. We have 12 people represented from our area going. We have a handful of people who are from local churches within our area and then several part time staff going.

We currently have 2 girls raising money to join staff. One will be running High Rollers (our younger Capernaum club). The other is going to be leading the Dana Hills Club.

We also want to be starting club at El Toro High School. We have a teacher there who has requested YL to be there. He is willing to lead a team of leaders and love on the students of El Toro HS. If you know anyone who would be interested in being a leader at El Toro High School please let me know ASAP.

There is some other exciting stuff happening that I will be letting you know soon. Please continue to pray for the area and what God is doing. Please also join us in praising his name for what he is already doing and done in the area.

We are also in need of more leaders for each club. We currently have 4 clubs in our area with multiple on the horizon. We have 1 typical high school club, 1 middle school club, and 2 Capernaum (special needs) clubs. We can use people who are young and old. Please contact me if you are interested or have any questions.

Thanks,
Dave

Hanging Out At Bravo Burger, SJC

Hey Everyone,

Every so often our Capernaum Groups get together and have dinner at Bravo Burger, SJC. This is a great time for everyone to come together, hang out, and eat some good eats.

Please feel free to join us this coming Wednesday, August 1st from 6:30pm- 7:30pm. Each person who comes helps raise money for Young Life. Just remember to say your with Young Life when ordering!

See ya next week!

Oakbridge- Wyldlife Camp 2012

Hello all i hope this finds you well! Wyldlife has been having an amazing summer! I just wanted to send out a lil update about Wyldlife camp we just got back from last week. We ended up taking 6 middle schoolers and 2 leaders, myself and Shannon for the girls. To say the least the kids had the best week of their lives! Experiencing new things and meeting new people and actually getting a chance to grasp the concept of who Jesus is and what he did for us. The week at camp was filled with everything you can think of to big swimming pools with high dives to skate parks and ropes courses towering 40 feet above the ground! I've attached a few images so that you can see some of the craziness that went down in the 6 days of chaos and awesomeness. Please keep us in your prayers as the new Wyldlife year quickly approaches that God will facilitate leaders, more kids, more funding. With more funding we can expand, reach more kids, share the Gospel with them and live life every single day.

Much Love,
Dmar