PEAK NOTES: September 2007

SouledOut is the Middle School Ministry of Woodmen Valley Chapel. We are a "Home Driven Minisistry" in that we want to enable parents to become the primary spiritual influence in their children's lives, rather than the Church. We compare our strategy to a ski map. There are four peaks--Peak 1 are the green runs (beginner), Peak 2 are the blue runs (intermediate), Peak 3 are the black diamond runs (advanced), and Peak 4 are the double diamond runs (expert). Our weekend service is the bunny hill on the green runs. Most people start there, but no one stays there. At the bottom of Peak 1 you have a choice, you can continue to ride the green runs, or you can get on to the next lift which takes you to more challenging and rewarding sections of the mountain.

2008 Swaziland Africa

In 2008, Rob Flanigen and I got the opportunity to travel to Swaziland Africa on a scouting trip for Woodmen Valley Chapel and the Third Project. We were there to see first hand how WVC could respond to the AIDS Pandemic in Africa. We traveled with Children's Hope Chest to Swaziland, a small country in Southern Africa, with the highest HIV infection rate in the world (46% of the population is HIV positive). Swaziland is a small country of around 1 million people. However, the country has 130,000 orphans, most due to AIDS. Here are a few of their pictures.

September 12, 2007

Articles

Our DRIVEN parents students conferences have been amazing. We've already had around 200 people go through it int he past week and we still have one more conference (Thursday night 6pm at the Rockrimmon Campus in Room 100). At the conference, parents and their middle schoolers are designing a spiritual growth plan for their middle school student for the next year.

We have included several important articles within the notebooks. These are articles that have been released in the past month that have current stats on the state of teenagers in the United States. Two are from MTV studies and produce surprising results.

MTV Study Showing What Makes Teenagers Happy

MTV Study Showing Who Teenagers Identify as their Heroes

USA Today Article Showing Christian Teenagers are Leaving the Church

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