Summer school, of a sort
Just after my son’s eleventh birthday I wrote about my plans to prepare him for and launch him into his teen years. I’m actually going to do it. I am starting this summer by enrolling him in the Jeff Gill School of Theology and Design. He will be the only student.
He likes design. He designs with Lego and pen and paper and animation software and Photoshop and bits of stuff out in the garden. He has one of those non-stop creative brains. But reading is not a big thing with him. I’ve never heard him remark casually, I’m going to go read my bible for an hour.
So what I’m going to do is combine his love for creating with my design skills and the book of Romans. Each weekday morning this summer I will give him a design assignment that is based on a concept in Romans. In the evenings we will evaluate the work together from both a scriptural and design perspective. There will be a blog.
I’ve chosen Romans because in his group he is already going through Genesis on Friday nights and the life of Jesus on Sunday mornings.
If all goes well, he will finish the summer with a solid understanding of the work of Christ in him and he will have a head start on a creative career. I am so excited about this!
22 June 2009 Jeff Gill
tags: parenting,
youth
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