Based on the Prayer Lab at Recharge, this Learning Cohort has a two-fold design. Spend the first half of each cohort getting away God like Jesus did; “Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer” (Luke 5). Using various "prayer labs" to welcome and guide you, spend time with God as you experiment, play, discover, pray, explore, and reflect. Each lab includes Scripture and a tangible prayer activity. Because these labs foster ideas to use in your own life and ministry, spend the second half of the cohort discussing how to adapt their underlying elements (see list below) in varying ways to those in preschool through high school age.
Over 9 weeks, join Amy McGrew, a trained Spiritual Director, and other children's and youth ministry leaders the last Monday of the month, to spend active time with God while gaining tools/ideas for creating age-appropriate hands-on prayer experiences for children and teens in your ministry.
Learning Cohort is facilitated by Amy McGrew. Since 1997, Amy's created and developed interactive prayer experiences and activities to allow people of all ages to tangilbly connect with and learn who God is. Over 25 years ago, Amy embarked on a life-long commitment to invest in students and their leaders. She’s been on staff in small to mega churches—in children’s, middle school, high school and college-age ministries. She has her M.A. in Youth Ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary. As the Director of Training at Youth Leadership, she plans and implements training events, conferences and their online certification program. Amy also works as as an interim youth / children’s director with InterServe Ministries in churches of various denominations. For fun, she volunteers as a trained Spiritual Director providing opportunities to notice and respond to God’s invitations in the midst of everyday life.
NOTE ABOUT CAPACITY: Cohorts are limited in size because they are intended for you to engage in conversations within a context of safety, honesty and real life application through small, dynamic learning communities which provide what you need for practical growth in your life and ministry.