Parenting DOJO Resources (from our workshop)

Below are the "Parenting DOJO" resources for the workshop we gave on Monday and are giving again this Tuesday, March 6th at 7pm at Rooftop Community Church.  We invite and encourage you to come to find out more about the resources, why we recommend them, and how we implement them into our day to day family environment.  There are many of them, but each of them serve a different purpose and role in our family and in the raising of our children:


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The Parenting DOJO

Julie and I are in the middle of a Parenting Workshop called the "Parenting DOJO".  Last year while teaching through the book of Titus in the New Testament, we as Christ Followers were challenged to train ourselves so that we would live out our faith more clearly so that the world would rightly see Jesus in us.  This is a creative word for discipleship, which is the responsibility of all who proclaim to believe in and follow Jesus Christ.

Julie and I hosted our first Parenting DOJO last Monday and will be hosting the same training again this Tuesday.  Our objective is to briefly teach on some important principles for Christian Parents and give MANY practical methods we have found effective in raising our own children.  They may not all work for everyone, but we hope some of them will be pertinent and useful for each family that attends.  We are not experts in this area, but are avid and passionate students.  We want to continue learning and growing in how to love and lead our own children toward (1) whole-hearted faith in Jesus Christ and (2) a keen knowledge of God and how their faith in Jesus should impact every area of their developing lives.

As you remember, please pray for our time on Tuesday evening.  Also, you will be seeing more posts with info and resources on this topic.

Zimbabwe Update - Pedzy

Most of you know that I went to Zimbabwe, Africa last August on a mission trip.  During our time we focused on discipleship training for the young adult believers in country.  We also spent time discipling and serving the pastoral leadership there as well.  One of the young ministry leaders I met on my first trip in 2007, saw again in 2011, and continue to correspond with is Pedzy.  Pedzy is great and is on fire for the Lord.  He recently graduated Bible College and is pursuing a ministry calling.  For those of you who want to see the people we are serving and ministering to in our Zimbabwe ministry, here is a video of Pedzy talking about a conference he attended in December led by a fellow pastor, Bill Layle, from our previous church in Grand Rapids...

Nathan Young (who went on the trip with us in August) and I just talked this morning about how we are still in touch with Pedzy...so the ministry relationship continues across the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks again to all who supported and prayed for our trip and for our Zimbabwean brothers and sisters in Christ!