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Summer Missions projects over. Raise your hand if you know what was transformed.
August 10, 2009
August always hits me like a brick as I find myself overwhelmed thinking about how the summer ended up and preparing for the upcoming school year. One of the things I find myself thinking about a lot is what to do with the 100′s of students that we took on missions projects in the last two months. There are some great resources out there to walk through this process but I will be the first to admit I often am not intentional enough in my use of them.
So for 2009-2010 we are moving toward a more intentional model of preparation, during the trips and with debriefing. We will be modeling all that we do after the Deep Justice Journeys curriculum (Leaders Guide and Student Journals) from the Fuller Youth Institute and I’ll be blogging along the process. It’s my hope that in my staff and students’ interactions with the resources that I can model how to best use them and show what the results are.
It’s got to be more than a trip.
It’s got to be more than a singular experience.
It’s got to be transformative for the students and the families because we need change. I’m hoping that using these resources and being intentional about writing how we are using them will be better than a traditional forward in a book saying how great it is. I’ll write about how it really works, what doesn’t work and in my particular context how we have modified it to reach our students and families.
Read more of Lars’ musings at his blog, www.larsrood.com.
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August 10th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
This is great that you are doing this Lars. I agree that it should be more than just a single 2 week experience where we go home with great experiences and stories and that’s it. There is to much invested, both with time, money and resources for youth to just come home from their trips exactly the same.
As a staff with YWAM and Mission Adventures who sets up and leads these sorts of trips it is my hope and dream that the journey for these youth really begins when they arrive home. That their memories turn into total transformation that lasts their whole lives.
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