Countdown to College: A five-part workshop for parents and teens

Families work together to map out strategies for entering adult life. Emphasizes discovering God’s unique calling on young people’s lives and de-mystifying college the entrance and scholarship processes, while learning the activities and attitudes that will launch our children into all walks of life.  Learn how to host here.

3! Aim for Success (1.5 hours)

Who are you? How will you discover God’s calling on your life? Discover how God’s craftsmanship is the jet-assist to your divinely-appointed destinations. Where are you going? Chart a course to your star: entrepreneurship, apprenticeship, college, military, employment or ???

2! Acquire Assets (2 hours)

What will you need to get there? Find your own scholarship constellation. Learn to dodge the asteroids homeschoolers face as they enter adult life. Curriculum, standardized tests, work experience, extra-curriculars, leadership and public service are your rocket fuel. How can you obtain it all without a) going crazy, b) breaking the bank or c) making your Mom cry?

1! Apply for Rewards (1 hour)

How will you convince people that you have done excellent work? Learn to avoid the stigma of a ‘Mommy-transcript’ and to produce verifications that will make the world sit up and take notice. Transcripts, resumes, and sundry college entrance paperwork de-mystified. Walk through the college application process – forms to interviews – so that you can fly with confidence.

Meet the Students/ Q & A

Meet the Anderson younger generation and their local peers (as available), as they display some of the projects they took on in high school and their fruit in life beyond high school. See how the workshop methods look in real families. Network with One-Stop Resume project leaders from your area, and local college representatives (as available).

Quests & Homecomings (1 hour)

Focus on your goal: loosing your ‘arrows’ on the world. Strategies for expanding freedoms and responsibilities while your children are at home, in order to prepare them to fly with purpose into useful service to God.Explore how to build home-coming calls into the rhythms of everyday life. Daily routines, family celebrations and real-world projects bind us together across miles, years and generations. Mine the Bible study of God’s parenting methods. (This is an overview of the major themes in the Age to Age parenting retreat.)

Check the How to Host page, then contact Kim to schedule at kim@countdown2college.net