As a parent of a high school senior, there is no doubt that you desperately want your child to be as prepared as possible for college. With the belief that the spiritual transition is the most important and most neglected, we would all agree that a year-long program to help with that transition would be a valuable tool for your family. Please allow me to share with you today what is available to seniors during this Transition Year.
For seniors who sign up to TheTransMission national senior network, they will get access to a web site that focuses them for one year (or from when they sign up to the end of 2011) on the spiritual transition into college. They can sign up at this link.
The TransYear Network gives them materials in the form of a weekly devotional, a daily Bible reading plan, articles, links, videos, and a monthly podcast. All of the content changes every weekend and will continue through the end of their first semester in college.
Here are some examples of what they can find in the TransYear program.
Weekly Devotional Email- Sent every Monday morning. Here are two random examples: Example 1 Example 2
Monthly Podcast- Shares thoughts and testimonies for preparing for college. In January the podcast featured an interview with Bebo Norman and in February with Drew and Ellie Holcomb. Click here for the link to the podcast page.
Videos- This is a video that we show at the senior events and it was featured on the TransYear web site a week ago. It is one of the many testimony videos that will be shown during the year.
Other Components- There are also links to outside resources in this subject, contests, polls, articles, and a 100 day Scripture Challenge where we lay out a passage to read each day that walks the student through the major themes of the Bible.
All of this is up to the student to use or not. They get an email every Monday morning (see examples above) with that week's devotional challenge and links to whats new on the site. As the student goes through the year and moves from a high school senior to a college freshman, the content will change to what they are dealing with. If you know a senior, please encourage them to join the TransYear Network.
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