A Film and Faith Leader's Guide: Theme 1 Practicing Friendship

By Chris Friesen and Michelle Simes

A Film and Faith Leader’s Guide: Theme 1 Practicing Friendship equips youth pastors and small group leaders to explore the key theme of Practicing Friendship as presented in the award-winning film Because of Grácia. This three-session study will inspire students to think about teen dating, relationships, and sexuality in new ways, e

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dexterity
• Release date: Aug 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781947297074

Chris Friesen

A teacher and pastor by profession and a songwriter and storyteller on the side, Chris Friesen holds a master's degree in theology from Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary at Fresno Pacific University and has worked for years in youth, young adult, and children's ministry, from the Canadian boreal forest to the inner city. He resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on the Canadian prairies, where he makes music with his wife and six children in the Friesen Family Band.

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The author gratefully acknowledges the photography of Nick Arnold and Five Stones Films for making available much of the photography/still shots used in the publication of this work. All rights reserved to Nick Arnold/Five Stones Films. Further and additional use requires permission of the copyright holder: Five Stones Films. All works of Nick Arnold under hire by Five Stones Films are works made for hire and are the exclusive property of Five Stones Films. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Publication Information

Opening Quote

A Word from the Director

Introduction to the Leader's Guide

How to Use the Leader's Guide

How to Use the Student Guide

Practicing Friendship

Introduction

Conversation 1

Set the Stage

Reel to Real

Engage the Word

Prayer

Report from the Frontlines

Carry it Out

Conversation 2

Set the Stage

Reel to Real

Prayer

Engage the Word

Report from the Frontlines

Carry it Out

Conversation 3

Set the Stage

Reel to Real

Engage the Word

Prayer

Intergenerational Sidebar

Report from the Frontlines

Carry it Out

About the Authors

With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them.

Acts 4:33–34

A WORD

FROM THE DIRECTOR

In 2001 I wrote a play called G Factor, which followed a young man named Chase Morgan going through his senior year of high school with his best friend, OB. I started out with one simple scene: Chase in his bedroom trying to get up the nerve to call a new student and ask her out on a date. Chase was an unlikely protagonist, an undercover Christian unsure of how to fit into the