Living Stuff for Parents & Kids
Well, here's what I've been pulling 16 hour days on for the last month (and what I'll be pulling 16 hour days on for the next month before flying off to Australia to do a major league walk about).
As some of you know, I've spent the last 15 years trying to find ways to make confirmation more fun, interesting and effective.
I came home from my sabbatical with another long term goal. I intend to spend/invest the next 15 years trying to find ways to pull parents back into the faith incubation equation every night in every home and create systems, training, and resources that aim at that goal.
The first piece of this - something I'm rather proud of if I may say so myself - was launched yesterday at www.faithink.com and it's rather spectacularly beautiful. The next piece of this - our answer to brain-based Sunday School based on 15 years of trial & error research, will be unveiled in a month or so. (I know I can't use spectacular twice in a paragraph, but I'm gonna anyway). And it's going to be spectacular.
Can we engineer a social transformation that kills off 225 years of Sunday School drop off kids (a system that was created for spiritual orphans and is now enabling them?) Can we call an end to spiritual mercanaries as primary faith teachers for all of our kids and recruit, train, motivate and nurture parents? Can we mentor the mentors? Shepherd the shepherds? Equip the equipers?
Could there be a day when a majority of parents are talking with their own kids about God, reading the Bible, praying, and blessing their own children every night - taking on the role of primary faith mentor, teacher, role model and guide - in every home?
The three humble attempts above (did I mention spectacular) are the first of many resources designed to get straight into the home and begin the process with junior high. But, as anyone with half a brain tied behind their back knows, starting anything at junior high is stupid.
The next 8 humble attempt that we'll show off this summer will make the whole thing longer, later, and much, much earlier.
Enough of the infomercial. Take a look at the three if you've got a time, and let me know if you think they have a snowballs chance in h-e-double hockey sticks, or a snowball's chance in North Dakota.
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