Ministry Skills: Downhill Skiing.

Catalog description

This course is specially designed to equip students with tools for ministry and the holistic, spiritual formation of others in a variety of contexts. Students will be fully immersed in developing downhill skiing 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. The downhill skiing course will help students build on their existing downhill skiing skills and move them through the PSIA skill levels while creating space for them to encounter God in creation and consider what ministry looks like in that context. Through three days of skiing at resorts in Northern Wisconsin, students will experience a formational process in their own life through course readings, community based outdoor experiences, and critical reflection and discussion. They will also consider how to facilitate similar formational experiences for others.