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What It Takes to Engage These

Families

Linda Ranson Jacobs

Creator and Advisor to DC4K

www.dc4k.orghttp://blog.dc4k.org
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Colossians 3:23-24(NIV)

Whatever you do, work at it with all your

heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,since you know that you will receive an

inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is

the Lord Christ you are serving.


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Baggage

Video

By Nicole Johnson

Fresh Brewed Life, Inc.


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Too Small to Ignore

By Wess Stafford

Children learn what they live, and isolation

in the Village is one of the most

destructive messages we daily write on the

tablets of their hearts.

You are part of the village


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Fueling Your Passion

Reaching out

Deepening relationship with God

Increased faith & trust in Christ

Recognition of the power of the Holy Spirit


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Questions to Ask Yourself

What fuels your passion?

What makes you passionate about

your ministry?


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4 Criteria When Ministering

Praying

Understanding

Reaching out

Caring


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Defining Passion

Passion is the object of someones

interest or enthusiasm.

It comes from personal experience,your own or someone you know


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Passion Comes from Within

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion

on them, because they were harassed andhelpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then

he said to his disciples, The harvest is

plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord

of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers

into this harvest field.Matthew 9:35-36


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Demonstration

Family Sculpturing

Death of a spouse

Death of a marriage


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Understanding the Legacy

Fear about safety

Behavior problems

Regression to younger habits

Total confusion


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Legacies

Short-term

Affects the child right now or in the next fewyears

Long-term Affects a child in their adult years and for some

for the rest of their lives


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Understanding the Brain

Brain stem - fight, flight, freeze

Limbic - all about feelings

Cortex - learning, problem solving

Conscious Discipline Dr. Becky Bailey 1-800-842-2846

www.ConsciousDiscipline.com
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Brain stem - fight, flight

or freeze


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What Can You Do?

You cannot rationalize the brain stem

You can describewhat the action is.

Ex. Your body is going like this.

Realize a response is to a perceived threat

www.ConsciousDiscipline.com800-842-2846


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Limbic - about feelings


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What Can You Do?

You cannot teach the limbic system.

You can mirrorand reflectwhat they are

sensing.

Add empathy to the childEx. Seems to me your mad. I can

understand why you would be sad.



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Cortex - think logically,

make choices, etc.


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What Can You Do?

Help child reason

Validate feelings

Listen to rationalizations

Facilitate problem solving

You can teacha child in the cortex



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Mirror Neurons

Your facial expression and body posture

make a difference

These neurons show you what its like to

experience what others do.

Born for Love

Share mirror neurons at work


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Activate Mirror Neurons

Kids mimic your expressions

Mirror neurons show you what its like to

experience what others do(Bruce Perry,Born for Love)

Mirror neurons at work - Have a good

day.


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Mirror Neurons

You can catch mirror neuronslike one catches a cold


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Upon entering your group

Be prayed up

Prepare your heart Greet participants w/ warmth, joy, smile

Maintain a spirit of empathy


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What part of the brain are

you in?

Share a brain stem moment

A limbic system moment

Hopefully everyone is in the cortex right now


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Keeping passion alive

Relationships and community

Building community

You never stand so tall as when you stoopto help a child! (Too Small To Ignore)


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Tips and Tools

Pray

Plan

Care

Be empowered


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Pray

Has to start and end with prayer

To effectively minister and sustain

Apart from God this type of ministry is short-

lived

John 15:5: "I am the vine; you are thebranches. Those who remain in me, and I in

them, will produce much fruit. For apart

from me you can do nothing" (NLT).


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Plan

Takes preparation & planning

Takes a team

Being part of a team is important


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Plan, Plan, Plan

Proverbs 15:22

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many

advisers they succeed.


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Care

Care for children with empathy

Empathy is eroding due to Decline in religious attendance

Social media

Texting

Mobil society

Relational poverty is increasing


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Empathy at work


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Care continued

Care for team members

How do you encourage your team? Do you do this weekly, monthly or when?

Care for self

Do you have a solitary place? Do you get adequate rest?

Do you press against Jesus?


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Empowerment

He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and

teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we

may present everyone fully mature in Christ.

To this end I strenuously contend with all the

energy Christ so powerfully work in me.

Colossians 1:28-29


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Be Intentional

Be prepared for when the show up

Have a purpose

Be resolved to reach out

Be deliberate in actions/words/deeds

Stop and think


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Empower Through Prayer

Their immediate needs

Understanding of situation

Parent they live with to have energy

Childs comfort

Understanding Do not set them up to fail


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Get energized

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words

descend like dew, like showers on new grass,like abundant rain on tender plants."

Deuteronomy 32:3

If you hang onto someones passion, it

becomes habit-forming. (Bill Parcells)


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Romans 15:13

May God, the source of hope, fill you with all

joy and peace by means of your faith in him, sothat your hope will continue to grow by the

power of the Holy Spirit.(TEV)


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Data Card

Fill out the data card and give to volunteer

Write Blogin the corner if you want to follow

What was helpful?

What was missing?

What will you do differently at yourchurch?


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