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The WallBuilders Show

Gap Years and God: Where The Next Generation Finds Their Direction- with Jeff Myers

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Education, Family, Religion & Spirituality, Church, Christianity, Wallbuilders.show, America, Conservative, News, Christian, Wallbuilders Show, Politics, Constitutional, Biblical, Government, History

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summit.org The traditional path to higher education is being reimagined as faith-based gap year programs emerge as powerful alternatives to conventional college experiences. This eye-opening conversation reveals how programs like Summit Ministries and Patriot Academy are creating immersive educational models that develop biblical worldview foundations while helping young people discover their vocational calling. Jeff Myers of Summit Ministries shares startling statistics that challenge our a...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builder Show. We're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. And the winning just continues. So many good things happening right now. It feels like every day is a good news Friday. Today is also a good

0:21.2

news program because kids are getting the right worldview, new programs developing all the time to

0:27.1

help replace colleges, which is what we need to do so they don't waste money for four years and

0:31.9

waste four years of their life and go get indoctrinated. So, you know, for some kids, it might still

0:36.5

be the good idea to go to college.

0:37.8

If you're going to be an engineer, doctor, lawyer, or whatever. But, man, I am loving the fact that more and more of

0:42.3

these programs are offering the same opportunity my three kids, three of my four kids, had the opportunity to do at Leaders Academy in Hot Springs.

0:49.3

And later in the program, we got Jeff Myers with us, who does Summit Ministries, which has a summer program, and they have

0:54.4

a Gap Your program as well. So it's going to be great to talk to Jeff about that. Tim, you've, of course,

0:59.5

taught at Leaders Academy, Patriot Academy. You've probably been out at Summit and a lot of these other

1:03.2

programs as well. This is really cool to see these new opportunities for families to not just do the

1:08.6

typical college route that just isn't the winning formula for the

1:12.3

future for most young people. Yeah, one of the things that during the summer when we do our

1:17.8

summer institute program, we, one of the things I will often point out to students is one of the

1:23.9

biggest mistakes that people make in college is we still base, at least parents,

1:29.6

base a lot of credibility, kind of value assessment on having it agree. And they'll brag about

1:36.9

what university their student goes to and if it's prestigious, et cetera, et cetera. But the reality is,

1:42.6

it's like, I think it's less than 27% of students that

1:47.9

once they graduate, they find a job in, not in the specific arena of their degree, but in the

1:56.2

generalized field of their degree. I think it's around one fourth. I think it's a little under 27%.

2:03.7

And this was from a couple years ago. I can't imagine it's improved since then. But most kids get a

2:08.0

degree and they're not able to do anything with the degree they have. They have to find a job

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