LIL/Young Leaders Update

At the park today David Aguilar and I discussed the new YCLA, what its goals should be, and how it should be run. Some of his ideas were identical to mine on the concept of a Liberty In Law Coalition!

What is yet to be resolved is what to do once the original members of the YCLA get older. David believes the YCLA would over time become a LIL Coalition in and of itself, while I had thought of it more as a catalyst for such, which would continue on and be self-perpetuating. One way, the group morphs from an organism of young people to an alliance of organizations; the other, we the founders fade from the picture once we become adults. Hmmm...

In any case, I have been working on several logo drafts today. The Blogger program hasn't been working quite right the last few days so I can't show you them, but I will describe them generally.

The most popular one so far is a blue 3-D oval with the initials in yellow on it. "Young Christian" in a sky blue is above on the oval, and "Leaders' Alliance" is in the same below. Behind the letters, and slightly faded against the oval, is an American flag (black-and-white). The staff of the flag extends downwards where the motto "Liberty In Law" is visible under the blue oval, in black.

The first logo I made consists of a rectangular background of stone with the YCLA intials in black. On the "L" there is a little stylized flag. Above and to the left of the initials is the motto (could be either LIL, "In God We Trust" or something else). Below the "YCLA" is a narrow red bar, and below that is the words "Young Christian Leaders' Alliance."

The final design is the most dramatic, with sun-rays or light-beams exploding from a central red rectangle with the intials in yellow. The background is a deep blue. "Young Christian" is at the top in white, and "Leaders' Alliance" is at the bottom in the same color. The sun-rays in this logo also appropriately resemble the points of a compass.

Since we are going blueberry-picking with the Hacketts and Aguilars tomorrow, we will Lord-willing be able to finalize our ideas and pick out one of these logos.

Which also means I must be getting to bed... :-)

Thanks!


-R. Josiah Magnuson