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9-3-98 Dear families of 9th graders, Pastor Roger and I met with some of you last evening and outlined our Friends in Faith program, and shared a schedule for the remainder of the year. Please find included in this mailing a copy of the revised schedule, based on input received last evening. We had to make one change. Luther Park was not available on January 8/9. Therefore we took the liberty to move the 9th grade study retreat to January 29/30. We are very excited about our Friends in Faith program, which is now over 20 years “young.” Your class also has the distinction of being the first one to begin their Friends in Faith program at the start rather than the end of your Freshman year! The national church is just now beginning to see the importance of a program of this nature for its youth. (In the article “Raising moral children” in the February 1998 issue of The Lutheran, Peter Benson of Search Institute said that if he had a magic wand and could change one thing, he’d ensure that every child and teenager in America always had ongoing relationships with at least three other caring adults outside their families.) Why bother with one more program for your already over-scheduled teenager?
Two years ago we added a new twist to our Friends in Faith program.
We asked our adult matches to commit to their student for the
entire four
years of
their high school experience. We will be looking for the same commitment
from this
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