Directing Vision Daily...



As part of our vision to equip parents to direct their children in the way they should go, Nathan conducted a parenting workshop at the Island Church last weekend. Most of the 21 people in attendance on Friday evening were parents from the Hornlee community.

At registration each parent received a small notebook with key handout notes relating to the content, a bottle of still water and a 'Book of Hope' (see blog dated 22 Oct 09) together with a pen for the making of notes.

Putting the group at ease Nathan opened with a side splitting icebreaker followed by scripture reading and opening prayer.

Using the DVD material "Directing Vision Daily" by Danny Silk of the Bethel Church (Redding CA, USA), a total of six sessions were facilitated. To overcome a challenge we incurred (most of these folk are Afrikaans speaking and all the material is in English) small group discussions, group feedback, prayer time for their children, and writing a letter to their children were means to review and apply learning.

The general feed back was that the content was excellent material, simplistic enough and very relevant; a must in our tool box of parenting tools. They assured me that if we ran this same workshop they would recommend it to other parents in their
community.

The harsh reality is that it requires practice, practice and more practice.

Thank you to The Island Church (venue) and Youth For Christ Knysna (transport) for contributing to empowering parents in the Knysna area!