I'm procrastinating as usual when I have something "school" related that I should be doing.
Next Wednesday, I take my final exam to become a Chartered Life Underwriter. The course is basically insurance for business owners and it is so freaking boring I can barely keep my eyes open when I read it. I've read 6 out of 13 chapters and I'm pretty sure I'm just going to do the study guides and wing it. Fingers crossed that it works... I'm not even sure what score I need to pass.
This past week I went to Raleigh for my first and best boss (Katie O)'s wedding. It was beautiful, and so great to be with some favorites.
In the past 20 months, every single one of my teammates from Auburn has gotten married, one has also had a baby, and another has a baby on the way. Life is crazy.
I've been spending a lot of my time developing curriculum and planning for the upcoming school year. I am officially the new Coordinator of Discipleship Group Ministry at my Parish and I want to do it right. I am working specifically with the core team of adult women who are discipling our high school women. As of now, we have one discipleship group of women per grade from 8th to 12th, each led by two adults. I am trying to model for the leaders what their weekly/biweekly discipleship groups ought to look like, and I feel both completely inadequate and in awe that God would want to use me in this way.
The first place I started was with goals/objectives. By the time our teens leave discipleship to go off to college, I want them to be able to:
-Preach the Kerygma
-Give a testimony
-Pray with Scripture
-Articulate why it's important to attend Mass on Sunday
-Discuss the path of discipleship (encounter, grow, serve/win, build, send)
-Understand the habits of a healthy Christian community (fellowship, discipleship, worship, ministry, mission)
-Discern appropriately (especially when it comes to Vocations)
-Invest in their peers in a strategic/intentional way
Obviously, this list does not include things like learning apologetics, Theology of the Body, Salvation History, etc., but these things happen in a broader context in our parish, so there are opportunities for them to get that knowledge-- my main focus is on turning the vision outward and making world changers.
What do you think? What would you add or subtract?
Saint Edith Stein, pray for us!
As much emphasis on prayer as possible!! What prayer is, the forms it can take, etc! Most important thing they could start with!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, maybe, the classic Brittany lesson of how to maintain your faith/prayer life even when emotions aren't there. #fakeittilyoumakeit #kinda ;)
I know we've talked about your list a lot! I think you've got a great start. I definitely agree with Allison about prayer. You may also consider how you will measure these outcomes. For example, it's really hard to "show" that someone understands something. How will you measure that they understand the value? Will they verbalize the habits or will they demonstrate some of these habits?
ReplyDeleteI think the same thing can be said for discern appropriately. Very important, but very vague. I don't know how you teach someone that, exactly. I guess start with how to pray and teach discernment of spirits, but otherwise, how will you measure?
Maybe I'm trying to make these things too concrete... I'm excited to see what Jesus does with your ministry!