Young Life Cleveland West

Young Life feels like a party every week as kids gather for clubs, fall weekend, and Campaigners.  Christmas time – that’s the time when December starts that is like a party every day!  In Young Life, we step up our celebrations and it’s amazing. This year 50+ leaders and committee packed into a house and had the "party to end all parties."  We ate together, prayed together, and of course opened gifts together.  Of course, we played our usual Christmas game…except we changed it up this year and made it even more fun!  We shortened the time and doubled the fun, and it was so great. All our volunteer leaders also got a great Christmas gift from the staff and committee to thank them for all they give to love kids from all around Cleveland.  We believe our volunteers are the greatest gifts to us and the kids... And to quote Cousin Eddy in Christmas Vacation- “and they're the gift that keeps on giving all year round.” Thanks and Merry Christmas to all ou

As we turn the calendar to December, we are keenly aware that Christmas is approaching rapidly and that yet another year is ending.  On Monday this week we had our 88 th Annual YL All-Area Club.  (88 th has been the number since YL started in Cleveland in 1970!).  We saw nearly 200 kids coming from six clubs around Cleveland pack out our club room this year and it was super exciting.  We sang Christmas songs, like Feliz Navidad and Rudolf to 12 Days to a song called How Many Kings .  Kids laughed as they saw kids eat spaghetti, chocolate, and syrup as fast as they could.  A girl from Bay won it!  They saw our special guests, Elf Nemo - two little elves - who showed us how they got into shape as elves for the Christmas season.  Finally, they got to hear from Alex Meyers, our Lakewood Young Life Staff guy, as he shared about life.  Alex asked what it is we put our hope in, realizing that there’s no one we could ever hope in who's like Jesus.  It’s been a great year