Ad Hoc Family Life Committee Report
Sara Blackstock6/11/2000
I wish I had all kinds of exciting projects to report on with a full committee of excited, committed people, but basically I am trudging along take care of the most important responsibility currently, which is to publish activities for families and study groups which Fuel the Fire and Kindle the Spirit. This is being done now on the Jesusonian web site and because of so little time to devote it is going slow, but there are two chapters up on the site. I appealed to many folks from different arenas for writings and ideas, but so far there has not been any response so I trudge along with the realm of family, kids, and spiritual parenting.
I am presenting a workshop this summer on the Science of Spiritual Parenting. At least I am managing to keep family represented a bit. I will be chairing the Wrightwood series on family. The scheduled week's workshop in August at Sue Tennant's retreat SilverSprings has been cancelled due to lack of sign up, but we are working already on marketing ideas for next year.
There is a fairly well developed workshop - Cultivating the Soil- which could go on the road if we could figure out how to make that happen.
I am personally committed to and continually involved in studying for and culling information from the best of our culture on parenting and family life in order to present at some time in the next few years one model of a Spiritual Parenting Curriculum. I of course welcome any and all contributions and thoughts on such.
We seem to be in a holding pattern as far as the grand visions which dance in my own heart and head, and until they dance in the hearts and heads of others, the Family Life Committee, which is hardly a committee right now, will plug along. Thank you Robert Burns for your contributions and ongoing support and willingness!
I just received a request from Fatou Sow, the African writer of children's stories with whom I have been communicating, a request for a grant of $1200 for 1000 copies of tales which have been written by children 10 - 12 years old, in French and a mother tongue, wolof. The other members of the committee, Claudia Ayers, Bob Slagel, and Patrick Yesh will discuss this.
I wait for others to join me in much work to be done with enthusiasm, vision, working hands and time.
Submitted with unending devotion to the uplift of family life and kindling the spark of the Spirit in children,
Sara Blackstock