Decide to Lead

Decide to Lead... before any Leadership training can take place, one must say "Yes" to leading in the first place.  This semester's Student Leadership Camp (SLC) we wanted to redefine to our students on what it meant to be a leader.  So we decided to look at Peter's story and did a movie study on Men in Black (MiB).  As we were planning this, Barron, Kim and I felt very excited at where this was going to go.

Throughout the training, we gave our students pieces of Peter's journey from which they then needed to come up with a creative interpretation of it.  Then, they were asked to preform it and teach the rest of the group on that section.  It was really exciting and entertaining to see what they came up with.  Some of them did games that got us to engage in the "feeling" aspect of how Peter would have felt, others did fruit theater where they used fruits as the characters.  It was really encouraging to see our students engaging in this and really having fun with studying & teaching scripture.

Walking On Water Game

Now it did not stop there.  We then went up to the SFU campus and then shared with students on the SFU campus what we just prepared on Peter's journey.  Now that was a huge challenge and risk for both us and our students and there were some negative responses to it ,but nevertheless, they still went for it.  The result... really surprising!  When we finished and debriefed our experiences, we were all celebrating and were really excited.  The fears that we had in people rejecting us were not really true.  In fact, it was quite the opposite, they were really receptive!

We all learned something very valuable.  The majority of people are not all that scary and most really want to hear that good news that Jesus has to offer.