Who I Am Weekend Intensives
Overcoming Obstacles to Identity and Purpose
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About the Weekend Intensive
The Who I AM Weekend Intensive is for Young Adults (ages 18-28). No matter how you feel, you have a calling from God. But how can we do what God wants if we are stuck emotionally? How can we overcome the obstacles to identity and purpose?
The Weekend Plan
Like the spiral strands of our DNA, we will follow the strand of eight qualities from 2 PETER 1:3-10, which help define our identity and purpose in Christ. As we do so, we avoid being “ineffective and unproductive” in our relationship with God. This is not a lecture series but a series of activities to help you know your identity and purpose, which is embedded in your story. We cannot know God’s calling until we know our story, especially the parts that hinder us.
God Knows Your Story
When God calls us, he shows us our story and what hinders us. He wants us to be free from emotional wounds so that we can engage our world. Jesus knows why you run, hide, lie, rage, or cry. Emotional wounds, embedded lies, and our habitual reactions to them are obstacles.
What You Will Do
In this weekend intensive, you will examine your story. You will assess obstacles, personality, passions, spiritual disciplines, and gifts. You will activate your faith, listening, speaking, praying, journaling, affirming, and celebrating the Gospel of the Kingdom.
God’s Story
You will gain an understanding of God’s Story and Mission to discern your part in it. God is the creator, the original gardener, artist, communicator, teacher, lawgiver, healer, counselor, and architect. He is the author of every kind of faithful work. This Weekend Intensive will give you the tools to follow the pathway to clarify your calling.
DNA of Identity & Purpose
Together, we will discover the DNA of God’s kingdom and the profound meaning of Christ's cross. This is the pathway to a deep and practical revelation of God's love.
Take Away
This weekend will help you develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to actively engage the world and share your gospel story with your peers, the lost, neighbors, and people from other cultures.
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Response to Major Changes
The WHO I AM Weekend Intensive is a response to global shifts and cultural change in recent years. Learn more on this video.
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For College Student and Young Adult Groups
Participants prepare for their part in God’s call to make Him known in all the earth, in every nations and through every vocation. The WHO I AM Weekend Intensive will help members of your group begin to find their place in God’s world, expand their sphere of influence, and focus on God’s intentions for every family and nation to know His goodness, truth, and justice through every kind of faithful work.
WHO I AM Weekend Intensives require a primary group leader, group of at least 16 participants, and a staff team of at least seven.
If interested, schedule a meeting with us to begin planning the WHO I AM Weekend Intensive in your city. Allow at least 30 days to plan, recruit your team, and prepare for this life-changing biblically-based intensive.
What to Expect
The WHO I AM Weekend Intensive includes six significant outcomes related to knowledge, attitude, and skills. Those outcomes are refined into several criteria fulfilled through activities aligned with the apostle Peter’s instructions from 2 Peter 1:3-10. Activities, Assessments, and Story Group discussions will take you deep into your story so that you can remove obstacles that hinder your response to God’s calling.
Schedule a meeting with us to learn more.
Overcoming Obstacles
When God calls us, he shows us our story and what hinders us. He wants us to be free from emotional wounds so that we can engage our world. Jesus knows why you run, hide, lie, rage, or cry. Emotional wounds, embedded lies, and our habitual reactions to them are obstacles.
During the weekend intensive, you will examine your story. You will assess obstacles, personality, passions, spiritual disciplines, and gifts. You will activate your faith, listening, speaking, praying, journaling, affirming, and celebrating the Gospel of the Kingdom.
The Weekend Intensive is based on YWAM’s Foundational Values and the qualities listed in 2 Pe1:5-8.
Principles are shaped by Values
“We established relationships with people who long to see their nation and the world through Bible-filtered lenses. In a world that compartmentalizes the secular and sacred, society and religion, into two distinct and mutually exclusive spheres of influence, it was our hope and prayer that we could teach that God reigns over and in and through all. He is Lord of government, business, science, technology, education, family, the church, arts, and communications. The sacred should not be self-contained and relegated to a position of non-influence, but rather, should extend itself to influence holistically.”
Ju Rhyu, Brown University - Sphere Group Leader in Kenya
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