Easter Convention

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This past weekend was Easter weekend. A weekend that we spent at the Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes convention held in Louisville, Ky. This was one of eight conventions held around the US and the Philippines.

Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes or L2L was founded in 1968. It was developed to teach and train the youth to become Christian leaders. It started with a group of eight boys in that first year to more than 20,000 boys and girls today. It is a congregational program to teach us all to become leaders in our congregation and in the Lord's church. Ages range from 3 to 103.

L2L has two categories: Year-round events and convention or pre-convention events. The year around events have no age limits and can be used in the congregation. While the convention …show more content…

No two congregations participate in exactly the same way. The year-round and convention events result in a well-rounded, confident, spiritually grounded individual that has the right foundation to be a worker for the Lord from youth through adulthood (http://www.lads2leaders.com/about).

Over a quarter of a million participants have obtained leadership training through the L2L program since 1968. While many congregations are losing half or more of their youth, congregations that incorporate L2L events (especially year-round) are reporting youth retention rates of 85% or higher, ten years after graduation. What makes the difference? The year-round concept (L2L is not a one week-end youth event) and involving youth in regular study into God’s Word produce results. L2L is not just about preparing for a yearly convention (http://www.lads2leaders.com/about).

Many have worked all year to get ready for the convention in year around service (Good Samaritan), year around song leading/songs of praise (girls), year around speech and other year around events. Some have prepared just for the convention events. Puppets, Bible bowl, Scripture reading, and other

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