Joining the HoneyRock group is a wealthy cultural expertise in itself! The first couple weeks of this system will encompass a wilderness journey and an in-depth have a look at HoneyRock’s historical past and tradition.
Vanguards dig into tradition.
Have you needed to get out from what’s recognized or comfy – to expertise new conditions, perceptions, and methods of residing?
Over the course of 9 months, Vanguards will dive into new cultures, observing and taking part within the Great Commission at work on this planet, whereas relating these experiences to a private mission. Our service inside these contexts is seen as studying. We have deliberately chosen companions that permit us to submit, be taught, and be part of with relationally primarily based, ongoing, regionally lead ministries.
Four Distinct Cultural Experiences
Over the course of 14 days, Vanguards will interact in vocational exploration and cross-cultural missional experiences alongside worldwide and home professionals. Students could have the choice to decide on between two journeys. Vanguards will journey to a.) Costa Rica, partnering with native missionaries by Students International or b.) Mississippi, the place they may associate with native ministries and encounter the historical past and tradition of the southern United States.
While HoneyRock is an unbelievable group, the higher Northwoods space presents many alternatives to be taught and get plugged in as nicely. We encourage Vanguards to hitch within the native church and group ministry alternatives. November will present a week-long alternative to spend an intensive week digging into the financial, historic, and cultural demographics of the encompassing space.
There are wealthy cultural variations and vocational alternatives throughout the United States. While on the monitor particular journeys, Vanguards will encounter a wide range of professions and organizations that relate to the work expertise they’ve explored by their monitor. Each monitor (Journeys, Equestrian, and Adventure Programing) could have totally different journey experiences, the monitor journeys are every week lengthy.
Purposefully Preparing, Engaging, and Reflecting
Over the course of those experiences, there can be pre, throughout, and put up actions to assist individuals develop a context, be current throughout the tradition, and unpack the experiences.
Pre-immersion work received’t revolve round do’s and don’ts or an inventory of logistics. Instead, group time can be centered on readings, simulations, reflective essays, statement, displays and spherical desk discussions that discover cultural problems with the context. This preparation is all in an effort to offer elements to type your response.
While current within the tradition, we are going to concentrate on religion improvement: constructing an understanding of how God is honored in different cultures. Vanguards can be challenged to search out peace inside an unfamiliar context, expertise Christian custom that’s theologically and culturally totally different from theirs, and encounter peace throughout the ambiguity of not being the dominant tradition.
You’re not executed as soon as you come – there’s nonetheless the method of re-examining and debriefing your expertise. To proceed processing, Vanguards will discover unanswered questions, cope with the challenges of reentry, and reexamine beliefs, the church, and the that means of “loving others” in mild of the expertise.