Adventure into Intimacy and Wonder and the Practical Skill of Living in Metaphor
The Mission of Expedition 61 is to build a crew who will collaboratively create and sustain authentic community which overflows into a Biblical standard and model for true discipleship, Kingdom-oriented leadership, and a Christ-centered worldview. The Expedition 61 AMT will be focused on building disciples/leaders through encounters into intimacy and wonder and living in metaphor. Leaders are developed in practical skills in outdoor adventure preparation, primitive living skills, spiritual metaphor and rights of passage. The curriculum is mainly experiential and covers key Biblical Truths such as our identities as sons of the King, living out the authority we’ve been given in Christ by His Holy Spirit (e.g. walking on water, healing the sick, raising the dead, setting the prisoners and captives free, bringing out the gold, stewardship ) This AMT will have several optional outings, but you’re not going to want to miss out! - Friday offsite adventure activations, including one overnight campout. Both instructors have over 25 years experience in leading trips in the mountains, deserts, rivers and seas, with signs & wonders following. There will be additional writings and excerpts to read for this course. Part 3 of this will be open for 10 students on an extended Sailing trip in the BVI’s.
Class themes:
Leadership in a place of wonder
Living in Metaphor
Walking in the miraculous
Connecting your spirit with nature —
How God speaks to us through nature, and how we speak into nature
Outdoor Living Skills
Navigation and Awareness of your environment
Leadership - submission to authority - the gambit from democracy to King
Spiritual formation and Sense of Place
Right of Passage
Peaceful Warrior
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir
Week 1
Syllabus - class intro- Story time with Chuck and Captain (testimonies)
- introducing the Sacred Silence
Week 2
Treachery of Imagery - Poetry and Prophecy - Your Life message
Friday Outing - Poetry night round the campfire
Week 3
Intro for Outings - Night of Wonder - and Living in Metaphor - God and Creation
Friday Outing - primitive living skills and fox walking
Week 4
The Hidden Man, Man of Stature, The Peaceful Warrior
Friday/Saturday Outing Overnight - The Vision Quest - Solo
Week 5
Leadership: the Gambit from Democracy to King -
how submission to Authority brings freedom and empowerment
Week 6
The Water Walker and The Way of Passage
Friday Outing
Week 7
The Epithet - Out in the Field “Extended Class”
“Frodo asked, ‘Why was I chosen?’ Gandalf replied. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings