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Great Video of I-south

http://vimeo.com/35043233 ( Click on this link if you'd like to see a great photo tour of some of the leaders and teens we work with in our division of Young Life-- Africa, Asia and Latin America.    Our newest blog post is below.....

Time with LOTS of Friends

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Dear Friends,                    It’s been a busy January and February, but in very good ways. I’d love to tell you a little about all the friends we’ve been getting to see. Leaders from the 2nd camp The first opportunity to see a lot of friends was at our Leader training camps for Central America which took place in Nicaragua in mid-January.   Thanks for your prayers—those camps were a huge success.   We had over 400 leaders there (!) over the course of our two camps, many from Nicaragua, but also others from Panama, Honduras, Guatemala and other countries. I’ve been thinking recently about a discussion with a good friend talking about our focus in Young Life of equipping leaders. He said: “ If you focus on building Young Life into a bigger ministry, you will hurt your leaders and likely fail.   But if you build up leaders in Christ, you will build YL.”   There is a LOT of wisdom in that phrase. One of my senior leaders classes            The reality is we do want to see Yo