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Resilient Disciples Podcast Episode Two: Matt Markins

Episode Two of the Resilient Disciples Podcast: Awana's President and Chief Strategy Officer Matt Markins

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Resilient Disciples Podcast Episode One: Valerie Bell

Episode One of the Resilient Disciples Podcast featuring Valerie Bell

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Kids Need Spine and Heart: The Outlook for Kids from Resilient Child Discipleship

Think of the kids in your church. These children we love will be the church of the year 2050.

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How to Ensure Every Child's Unique Discipleship Pathway

As we prepare today’s kids to lead the church of 2050, what if we designed a new system that put each child on his or her own unique discipleship pathway?

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How To Inspire Fully Engaged Child Disciple Makers

One loving, caring adult engaged in the life of a child can dramatically increase a child’s long-term probability for success.

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How to Match Your System to Your Philosophy

Are we talking about the systems of the past? Systems of the present? Or the systems we need to build the disciples who will lead the church of 2050? 

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How to Develop a "Kid-Focused" Philosophy

Are we programming for the immediate, or prioritizing for the future?

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Noteworthy Research Behind Belong, Believe, Become

As child disciple-makers, we need to step back and ask ourselves, “Is our current strategy and philosophy going to nurture and influence resilient disciples who will lead the church in the year 2050?”

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The Biblical Basis for Belong, Believe, Become

As child disciple-makers, we need to step back and ask ourselves, “Is our current strategy and philosophy going to nurture and influence resilient disciples who will lead the church in the year 2050?”

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Why Children Need the Church

This is why, though parents are important, even primary, in the spiritual direction and discipleship of their children, they are not “only” or even enough. Children may grow in the soil of their parents’ faith, but they need light and air and more.

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The Science of Resilience: Why Kids Get Back Up

Why is it that some kids experience adverse conditions, yet they get back up?

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Dear Disciple Maker

You are more important than you know. These children are growing up and soon will forget your name. But when they think of God’s love . . . to them it looks a lot like you.