All Info on the dodgeball tournament (except for the rules, you have to email me) can be found HERE
To "pre-register" your team (or "sign-up") please email me at rz@projecthangout.com and let me know the team captain and who else is on your team. Also include info like what group you are from, the ages/gender of the team and a team name if it has been set.
We do have needs for volunteers. Here are some areas we could use your help:
Set-up
Time/Rank officers
Refs
Security
tear down team
and any kind of prize or food donations!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
The Sage
How does a boy without a father grow up to be a man? How does he learn to make the hard decisions he is going to have to make in life; the ones only a man can teach? - Sylar, Heroes, (NBC)
I've been asking myself the same questions. Good thing God gave us other men. I find the heart behind God is that great men take interest in those around them. Selfish men worry only worry about themselves.
The role of the "Sage," is laid out as the most important role a man could play at the end of his life in the book by John Eldredge, The Way of the Wild Heart.
"The Sage draws us to God. He offers a gift of presence, the richness of a soul that has lived long with God."
A few pages later John gets vulnerable and tells us a personal encounter with a Sage:
"And while this old saint's counsel was immensely helpful to me, there was something more given during our two hours that even still I find hard to describe. To sit with a man who has walked with God some seventy-plus years, to be in the presence of a father, to have the eyes of a wise and gracious man fixed upon you, to have his heart willingly offer you affirmation and counsel - that is a sort of food the soul of a man craves. All my years of loneliness and fatherlessness came into stark contrast. I could have wept."
A Sage offers hope and a way.
The church needs to get connected again. Connected to each other. The aging and the young need to cross paths.
We need to be intergenerational.
God designed us to feed off each other.
I heard of a study (I'm looking for the source and my notes) concerning similarities of teens and the elderly. Both showed the same characteristics of feeling depressed, isolated and unwanted. Why? Because one needs the other. I am not suggesting every teenager and elderly person need to hang out. Bingo and Hip-Hop have very little in common. What I am suggesting is a chain. The sage needs to meet and be with those who are in their 40's and 50's. This age range needs to connect with the young married/career and those need to meet with the life stage just below them - college. Young adults and college are the most natural fit for hanging out with high school students (even their schedules lend to this idea).
There can be cross over in every life stage but the point is that we are blessed to be a blessing and that means that we are in the lives of others to help show them the way as well as to soak up the wisdom that is available to us.
More on this. I am just scratching the surface and so is Project Hangout as we seek to reunite the church with each other and reach the unreached together.
I've been asking myself the same questions. Good thing God gave us other men. I find the heart behind God is that great men take interest in those around them. Selfish men worry only worry about themselves.
The role of the "Sage," is laid out as the most important role a man could play at the end of his life in the book by John Eldredge, The Way of the Wild Heart.
"The Sage draws us to God. He offers a gift of presence, the richness of a soul that has lived long with God."
A few pages later John gets vulnerable and tells us a personal encounter with a Sage:
"And while this old saint's counsel was immensely helpful to me, there was something more given during our two hours that even still I find hard to describe. To sit with a man who has walked with God some seventy-plus years, to be in the presence of a father, to have the eyes of a wise and gracious man fixed upon you, to have his heart willingly offer you affirmation and counsel - that is a sort of food the soul of a man craves. All my years of loneliness and fatherlessness came into stark contrast. I could have wept."
A Sage offers hope and a way.
The church needs to get connected again. Connected to each other. The aging and the young need to cross paths.
We need to be intergenerational.
God designed us to feed off each other.
I heard of a study (I'm looking for the source and my notes) concerning similarities of teens and the elderly. Both showed the same characteristics of feeling depressed, isolated and unwanted. Why? Because one needs the other. I am not suggesting every teenager and elderly person need to hang out. Bingo and Hip-Hop have very little in common. What I am suggesting is a chain. The sage needs to meet and be with those who are in their 40's and 50's. This age range needs to connect with the young married/career and those need to meet with the life stage just below them - college. Young adults and college are the most natural fit for hanging out with high school students (even their schedules lend to this idea).
There can be cross over in every life stage but the point is that we are blessed to be a blessing and that means that we are in the lives of others to help show them the way as well as to soak up the wisdom that is available to us.
More on this. I am just scratching the surface and so is Project Hangout as we seek to reunite the church with each other and reach the unreached together.
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