For many “W-O-R-K” is not a word to be embraced. Some do anything they can to avoid it. Others go to other extremes and exhaust themselves to enjoy the better things in life. Others, out of necessity and circumstances, work several jobs just to put food on the table. It can produce life-altering stress and physical issues.
Work wasn’t meant to be a chore in the beginning. You know the story. God gave Adam and Eve some land. The soil was perfect! The fruit from their labor was satisfying. Work was good, and life had meaning! And then it happened! Sin entered the workplace. Weeds shot up. Life got complicated quickly.
Genesis 3:17-18…after the First Couple took a bite from the forbidden fruit, God told them some really bad news. In short, He said the ground is cursed because of you. You will struggle to make a living. And all your life you will struggle to make a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you.
Ouch! Work today isn’t what God planned for us, is it? But God gives LOTS of grace and wants us to work out a proper perspective of work. Most French Camp Academy young people who come out of a culture demanding us to make bucket piles of money fast. And the message is clear: YOU come first. Look out for number ONE.
French Camp strives to teach a different model of viewing work, because we believe a perspective shaped by God’s Word can transform a life and generations to follow.
- Every afternoon Monday–Friday and Saturday mornings young people 7th –12th grades are assigned to work coordinators. If you visit our campus during those hours throughout the week, you will notice young people accomplishing and learning different tasks. Photography, weed eating, retail, writing thank you notes to FCA supporters, cleaning offices, answering telephones, operating a back-hoe, and a host of other activities provide opportunities for adults to teach young people life skills and develop habits of working every day.
- As FCA students enter their Junior year of their academic program, French Camp’s Life Coaching program kicks into high gear. Students learn about their unique God-given strengths, their passions in life, natural abilities, personality characteristics, and life experiences. Monthly mentoring meetings and classroom instructions help students shape a life purpose catapulting them into the future by laying out a track they can run on for life after high school.
Sound biblical teaching supports all of our work we do with young people ensuring that a Christ-focused world view shapes their lives. The work program at FCA is designed to point our students into career paths, teach them a Christian work ethic, develop skills and enhance talents, and ultimately serve others as they follow their God-given calling in life.
Night Two: Pray for FCA House parents who work daily with the ones in their care. Eleven sets of parents from all around the country are called to meet the emotional, physical, social, and spiritual needs of young people.
looking to start the next phase of their lives. These students need career direction, a clear understanding of their gifts and abilities, and someone to walk through goals to get them across the finish line and set-up for the next phase of their lives. Pray for over 60 adults who are serving as Life Coaches and the senior students being mentored by them.
