Tomorrow is one of Shelterwood's "All Property Serve Days." The weather is calling for 70-something so the experience should be reasonable. Next weekend we will be hosting our Girls Family Weekly and it's time to spruce things up for our wonderful families. Lots of good times and memories surround these famous work days dating back to Denver. During the month of October we will be hosting both family weekend experiences. The Guys will be at the end of the month.
Last Friday we concluded the second of our two day Shelterwood spiritual retreats for our staff. It was an amazing time of professional development, fellowship, personal growth and spiritual healing. Over 30 staff members rotated through one of the two events. We hope to continue to develop the retreat process in order to reach out to all departments including teachers, counselors, and other support staff.
Things continue to progress at Shelterwood. Last weekend our board of Directors were in town for a planned meeting. According to Jim Subers, our CEO, the meeting went well and our business leaders are encouraged and pleased with life, growth and business at Shelterwood. We currently stand at 30 boys and 26 girl residents along with 13 big brothers and 11 big sisters. We have come a long ways with much work to do and your prayers and support have made the difference!
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Rooted 101
For the past several months our Shelterwood Director has been working to bring the concepts of Healing for The Nations to our campus. Several of our staff have been afforded the opportunity to attend one of the monthly scheduled intensive retreats. It's difficult to summarize in a blog, but in essence HFN deals with spiritual healing from the false beliefs we carry in our hearts about ourselves. Lies.
For more information, you can check out the HFN website at http://www.healingforthenations.org/
Over the next two weeks, we will be taking our big brothers and big sisters through a condensed two day retreat titled "Rooted". The retreat/training will take our staff through a Shelterwood history from Richard Beach to Kansas City. Additionally the training will cover residential concepts including Love and Logic, Mindset, De-escalation and ultimately land on the subject of spiritual health and the need for the Holy Spirit in our lives as staff working with at-risk youth. It's a lot to take in for a two day period but I have been working with Director, Rujon Morrison on a way to present the profound spiritual truth of HFN in a culturally relevant way to our young adult staff at Shelterwood. It should be fun.
The retreat is scheduled for September 20-21 and September 27-28. In order to maintain adequate supervision in the house, half of the staff will attend each conference. Please keep our big brothers and sisters in your prayers as we take them through Rooted 101.
For more information, you can check out the HFN website at http://www.healingforthenations.org/
Over the next two weeks, we will be taking our big brothers and big sisters through a condensed two day retreat titled "Rooted". The retreat/training will take our staff through a Shelterwood history from Richard Beach to Kansas City. Additionally the training will cover residential concepts including Love and Logic, Mindset, De-escalation and ultimately land on the subject of spiritual health and the need for the Holy Spirit in our lives as staff working with at-risk youth. It's a lot to take in for a two day period but I have been working with Director, Rujon Morrison on a way to present the profound spiritual truth of HFN in a culturally relevant way to our young adult staff at Shelterwood. It should be fun.
The retreat is scheduled for September 20-21 and September 27-28. In order to maintain adequate supervision in the house, half of the staff will attend each conference. Please keep our big brothers and sisters in your prayers as we take them through Rooted 101.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Go Dawgs!
Last Saturday was the inaugural football game for the Missouri Tigers in the Southeastern Conference. Kind of a big deal. Last year Mizzou left the Big 12 Conference and joined the high profile SEC. The first game on the schedule was the University of Georgia Bulldogs. The game was televised nationally on ESPN and game tickets were hard to come by. Lucky for us, we have some connections at Georgia and a crazy group of us guys scored free tickets in the UGA booster section five rows in front of the marching band. It was raucous. Good times and amazing fellowship. The game was played in Columbia, MO which is 100 miles east. With a 7pm kick-off time, TV time-outs and plenty of traffic, we arrived home at 2:30am. I was worth every minute. Pictured left to right are my brothers and friends Blake, BJ, myself, Jimmy and Adam!
As much fun as the game was, we still had time to display Christ. In the bumper-to-bumper traffic jam following the game, two unfortunate Missouri college girls had a car overheat right in front of us. The poor ladies were terrified as folks were hollering to "turn off the engine." They had no idea what to do and the traffic was unforgiving. Well, four crazy Georgia fans from Doulos stepped in. We jumped out and pushed their car to the side of the road. In addition, we repaired the radiator hose temporarily allowing them to safely drive back to the dorm. Of course, they have no idea we are from Doulos or even believers in Christ but they were thrilled to receive the help and it was the right thing to do!
The football game was yet another reminder that community is what matters most. Sure we stay busy with all the hustle and bustle of Shelterwood but the life lesson is that people always matter.
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