07Mar
2010

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A paraclete is someone who walks alongside someone.  We’ve got our cleats on to walk alongside you.

Creating memories and experiences for your teens is one of the bottom-line goals for youth ministry.  It is certainly what we at Wild Frontier have learned over our twenty years of searching and questioning.  Experiencing is also the number one task in Faith Shaping and is at the core of spiritual formation.

08Jan
2010

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A paraclete is someone who walks alongside someone.  We’ve got our cleats on to walk alongside you.

In Pair of Cleats, we have often encouraged you to stretch your teaching to new creative “frontiers.”  We strongly believe in the use of many different creative teaching methods and leaning less on “speaching” methods.  So I was encouraged to read this quote from Richard Ross, someone I respect, in the current Group Magazine (January/February 2010):  “A strategy I have grave concerns about is one that places students almost always in a passive, listening mode while leaders speak or talk to them about spiritual things.