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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Sending your Christian kid to college can flood you with emotion—and perhaps no small degree of fear. Author and Summit Ministries President Jeff Myers helps you navigate the challenges, combat anxiety, and advocating for truth that transforms the world in times of crisis.
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0:00.0 | So I think one of the scariest moments in the life of a parent is when you drop your kid off of college. |
0:05.0 | There's this joy, this is a moment you've dreamed and prayed about your whole life, |
0:10.0 | but in another sense you are handing your child off to professors and fellow students and people that have totally different mindsets and beliefs than you have raised your child their whole life and now you're |
0:26.3 | giving them to the wolves. Yeah you worry about that. Yeah. |
0:30.1 | Yeah. that matter most. I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
0:44.7 | You can find us at family life today.com. |
0:47.4 | This is family life today. So we've got Dr. Jeff Myers in here who's going to calm every parent's beer. |
1:00.3 | Because you've done it and you lead a ministry, some ministries that really helps prepare our kids for this moment and beyond. |
1:10.0 | Welcome back to Family Life today, Jeff. |
1:12.0 | Yeah, I love being here. |
1:13.4 | This has been a lot of fun. |
1:15.2 | It's fun for us, too. |
1:16.8 | You've done it. |
1:17.8 | You know the fear, you know you work with thousands, tens of thousands, |
1:21.4 | probably hundreds of thousands of kids over 30 some years at Summit, right, who are walking into that world. |
1:28.0 | So how do we navigate that fear as a parent? |
1:31.5 | We have the privilege of working with about 70,000 |
1:34.2 | young people a year. |
1:35.4 | I personally meet and talk to and work with 800 to a thousand of them. Wow. |
1:43.0 | And they're what, 16 to 22. |
1:45.0 | 22 years of age. |
1:46.0 | So I have some sense of what they're facing. |
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