I haven't blogged much in recent days in part because I've been spending so much time revising my junior class "Joining God's MIssion". Now almost half way through this semester class, I can safely say that it is a much better class in both process and outcome. Last year I was unknowingly struggling with kids who really didn't care about God. . . so why would they care about joining His Mission in the world? This year I spent much more time early unpacking God's Story along with why so many kids find this Story so unattractive. This level of honesty I think helped provoke/draw kids into taking another look at God's Mission beyond the cliches and church propaganda. With God's Story as a context, we then unpacked the importance of "culture" in Joining God's Mission. Culture is almost always an awesome invitation for kids here in the States in part (I think) because Americans have rarely traveled abroad to engage different cultures.
With God's Story & culture as a context, we will now turn to Joining God's MIssion in our own culture. Using an Australian curriculum called "Ignition", I want to now turn kids loose into our world find, observe, and participate in God's presence in the world. They are already keeping a scrapbook on where they see God's fingerprints in the news. Now the opportunity to see God what we often think is the mundane of everyday life where we (often without knowing it) rarely look for God. More on this later.
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