CnC seems to require a high level of commitment. How do I encourage families to make the commitment to participate in CnC?
A course that focuses on a major rite of passage in students’ lives needs to be taken seriously and entered with great commitment. Because CnC focuses on empowering youth and opening them up to see God within them and challenging them to discover their voice, it equips them for the tough times ahead in a way that soccer, or baseball etc. will not. One place to start is with your own awareness of how important faith is for everyone. Sometimes what we end up facing is not so much a few complaints, but an entire culture that looks at faith as a kind of dessert topping rather than the main meal. CnC was carefully crafted so all the pieces fit together and every class is crucial to moving the students forward. The program doesn’t provide work for the sake of work. Some of this will be a leap of faith for you if you are using the program for the first time, but we believe you will find that youth (and families) will be energized by this program if they are willing to make the commitment to t
