Ministry Skills: Backpacking.

Catalog description

This course is specially designed to equip Vanguard Gap Year students with tools for ministry and the holistic, spiritual formation of others in a variety of contexts. Students will be fully immersed in developing backpacking skills as a means to explore how physical activity within a Christian community and in an outdoor setting can contribute to holistic formation of self and others. Course objectives will be taught through two trips: a 6-day and a 3-day backpacking trip. Students will experience a formational process in their own life through course readings, community focused backpacking, and critical reflection and discussion. They will also consider how to facilitate similar formational experiences for others. This course is only available to Vanguard Gap Year students.