Adam McLane

Category: The Youth Cartel

  • A secret deal on my book

    My new book, co-authored with Marko, comes out next week. I’m very excited about it for two specific reasons. Parents of teenagers really need this book. The days of fighting or banning or trying to wall off kids from social media is over. Parents need to know how to help their child live a life that…

  • FREE RESOURCE: YouTube You Can Use

    Each week I produce a free resource called, YouTube You Can Use. The concept is simple. I take a viral video from YouTube and write a small discussion starter and/or devotional based on the content. Currently, more than 1100 people around the world receive it each Monday. They use in their youth groups, in small…

  • We Went to The Summit Together

    I’m going to remember 2012. It’s the year the Cartel came of age. In 2011, we dreamed a lot and casted a lot of vision for what the Cartel might become. We wanted to Instigate a Revolution in Youth Ministry by initiating some stuff, developing partnerships, serving other organizations, etc. In 2012, we decided to build…

  • 3 New Books from The Youth Cartel

    In the past 2-3 months I’ve earned a Masters Degree in Publishing. OK, not literally. But I’ve had to teach myself how to turn a manuscript into a book you can buy and a Kindle/iBook you can read on an eReader. It’s been crazy hard and fun. So here are the 3 books we’ve published…

  • A season of winning

    Saturday, both of my favorite college football teams got big wins. First, SDSU beat UNLV at home to move their record to 6-3 and become bowl eligible. And second, Notre Dame remains undefeated and overachieving at 8-0. How in the world did they end up in the National Championship discussion after a schedule like that? For both the Irish…

  • Campferenceing

    It’s 4:45 and I’m at the airport. For a west coast person that means one thing: You are headed east. In just a few hours I’ll meet Marko, Kurt, Katie, and a few others in Louisville for our drive up to Seymour, Indiana. As an Indiana boy it doesn’t get much more Indiana than spending…

  • Our Baby is Growing Up

    Marko and I are in a very fun place with The Youth Cartel. Our start-up, in many ways our baby, is exceeding our expectations in growth. We’re further along in development than we could have imagined we would be 14-16 months ago. I’ve done a start-up before. In 2005, with $72 and a small group of…

  • Pushing Past the Pain of Change

    This weekend, at Open, I heard a few things. Some were from attendees, some speakers, and others from the Holy Spirit. Most of the thoughts that stuck are along the lines of change. People are ready for change. They are hungry for it. And the pain of continuing this cycle of depreciating returns is too…

  • Celebrating the Collective We

    Saturday was one of those rare experiences where you witness a vision reality. Something that existed purely by way of imagination, aspiration, and hopeful preparation took physical shape resulting in a day I’ll always remember. It started to get real when I picked up the t-shirts. Brian Aaby had connected me with a local screen…

  • Seattleness Weekend

    I’m up in Seattle this weekend hosting the first ever Open event. Please join me in praying for a great day. There’s a lot of people traveling from all over the country (specifically the Pacific Northwest) to get here. I am praying that its a wonderful weekend of refreshment. If you’d like to follow the…