Your Purpose, Your Faith, Your Community
theConnection Ministries has partnered with the Center of Parent/Youth Understanding (CPYU) and author, Derek Melleby to help college bound high school students and their parents ask the most important questions before heading off to college. Youth Pastors, high school teachers and leaders are highly encouraged to come. This is a highly engaging, must-attend seminar to better understand and prepare to face the pressures and challenges of a college transition from a distinctively Christian perspective.
Sponsoring colleges that will be at the event:
Also sponsored by Pennsylvania Family Institute and Baker Books
Sunday, March 20, 2011, 2-5pm
Location: State Museum of Pennsylvania, auditorium
Cost: $10 person / $20 per family (parents/guardians, grandparents, and siblings only please)
All seats at the door, $15, if available
Speaker and author Derek Melleby is a national expert on college transition issues.
Derek has been directing the College Transition Initiative (CTI) since it began in 2005 and has spoken all across the nation about this very idea. His hope is to create space for students, parents and youth workers to wrestle with deeper questions regarding higher education. For many students college is simply the assumed next step after high school, a time to have fun before entering the “real world.” But the experts tell us that the years between 18-25 are the most formative years in a young person’s life. Decisions are made during this time that shape people for the rest of their lives. Derek’s passion is to see young people make the most of their college years.
Derek attended Bloomsburg University (BA Political Science), Geneva College (MA Higher Education), and is currently pursuing a doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He’s worked with students in a variety of settings: college ministry, youth group volunteer, basketball coach, mentor, and teacher. He co-authored book The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness (Brazos Press) and it has been used as a textbook in many college classes and has been translated into Korean. Make College Count: A Faithful Guide to Life and Learning is scheduled to be released in March 2011 by Baker Books.
Derek enjoys traveling to other parts of the world which has blessed him richly. Highlights include studying in England, searching for Braveheart sets in Ireland, scootering in Spain, playing basketball in Venezuela, leading a tsunami relief team to Thailand, teaching a college course in Russia, chaperoning a high school trip to Japan and speaking at a leadership conference in the Bahamas.
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