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Here at Windermere we offer the students the chance to sign up for elective classes on Tuesdays. These classes vary from Computer Club to Glee Club. One of the requirements is to have each teacher pass along a skill to the students in their respective clubs whether that is carpentry or drawing.
This year I decided to go a little outside the norm and offer a club only for the young men in the effort of trying to incentivize them towards discipleship. In this club, they will encounter many activities that “every man should know how to do.”
So far I’ve had the chance to teach them how to use a chainsaw, build a shelter, and start fire from nothing (survival skills). In the future we will learn how to manage money responsibly, change a car tire and oil, and catch a fish with no bait.
If these activities sound interesting, I think that my boys would agree, because we’ve been having a great time working on them together.
Each day we meet I give them a single lesson from scripture on the definition of man. We’ve learned that God has created man to be a leader. God has created man for work. God has created man to be the head of the home (responsibility and accountability), God has created man to fear Him alone and live in courage, and our most recent lesson, God has created man to get-his-hands-dirty.
Teaching these boys how to work is not as burdensome as I would have thought, and many of them are coming to the club with a maturity towards responsibility already. But it is connecting the values of manhood back to the Lord that is what I’m hoping to achieve in discipling these young men.
I think we might get t-shirts printed.
Please email me if you can think of any other good ideas to share with them for what it means to be a Godly man.