getting started
8-Steps to Helping Start Young Life in Your Community
Work with to bring Young Life to your town by contacting Chris Storms and working through the following 12 steps.
- Pray: Start a prayer group committed to pray daily for kids and Young Life.
- Invite: Begin a contact list and start inviting people to invest their time and resources into the new Area.
- Identify: Find one person or couple who will lead the charge. We call them the Young Life Champion.
- Share: Cast vision for what Young Life could be for kids and families in your community by holding Vision Meetings.
- Commit: Build a Start-Up Team that will work to spread the word, begin raising money, and recruit people to be on the committee or become volunteer leaders.
- Train: Committee members and volunteer leaders get trained.
- Get To Know Kids: Volunteer leaders begin spending time with teenagers in the community.
- Begin Club: Set a start date for Club to begin and get kids signed up for weekend or summer camp.
