Blu Gnu 2012

We have another club that is quickly becoming a hit. It's called Blu Gnu! What is Blu Gnu you ask....well let me tell ya. We have friends of Young Life dress up in random costumes around the mall. Then we send the students out with a list of what they are looking for. Once found they get their signature and move on to the next person. The Blu Gnu is someone who is wearing a special blue Young Life t-shirt. Once again we had a huge turn out. I lost count after about 70 people. We were also lucky to have a small group of friends from Huntington Beach YL & South Central YL come and play also. Check out the pictures below

-Dave

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

Area Leadership Meetings

Once a month our entire leadership team meets on Sunday night for a time of being feed both spiritually and physically. Below you can see what a kitchen looks like when your trying to feed 50 people. 

A special thank you to the family that provided all of this!

A quick pic of the devo/ training part of the night.

The High Rollers team doing work

Beyond Capernaum planning away

Wyldlife and Dana Hills working on club

-Dave

Capernaum Beyond - First Club of Year Two!

           Capernaum Beyond had its first club back this last Wednesday! This is the second year Capernaum Beyond club has been around for OC Capernaum. We were blessed to have many of our friends back from last year, as well as a few new students, and some students who had graduated from High Rollers. The Beyond group had a great time catching up with each other from summer and we were thrilled to be back in the swing of things.

            Most of our friends who come to Beyond Club have been around Young Life long enough to know the stories about Jesus, so this year we will be talking about how we can build a deeper relationship with Jesus. One of our fantastic leaders, Tristen, gave the club talk. She spoke out of Luke 11 and talked about how we need to guard our hearts and shield our eyes from the things Christ wouldn’t want us to experience. This is such a prevalent topic for our Beyond friends, as many of them are becoming more independent.

            After we Club Talk we broke into small groups to discuss the Club Talk. This year, rather than just talk during our small group time, we are writing journals also. We decided to have our friends journal in response to club talk and the small group questions. This allows our friends who have a harder time verbalizing their feelings express themselves by writing or drawing what they thought of the Club Talk.

            Our first club back was most definitely a success. The Beyond leaders and I are excited to see what God has in store for our club this year!

-Rachel

OC Skate Night

Dana Hills Young Life at All OC Young Life Skate Night