DA360 | Surrounding Your Kids with Mentors, Modeling Adventure, & Making Memories with Your Own Dad (Ben Bevis)

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Ben Bevis joins today’s episode with practical tips for helping your kids embrace their God-given identity, gifts, and vision. He’ll inspire you to make more memories with your own dad and identify committed mentors for your children. Don’t miss Ben’s insights on healing generational wounds, modeling adventure, and strengthening your relationship with your kids.

Key Takeaways

• Take advantage of opportunities to adventure with your own father while you can.
• Intentional fatherhood begins with mending wounds and healing resentment.
• Help your kids discover their God-given identity, gifts, and vision.
• You can’t launch your kids alone; surround them with committed mentors to speak into their life.
• Keep adventuring, both on your own and as a family.

Ben Bevis

Ben Bevis is passionate about helping the Next Generation to live out their faith in Jesus. He is the founder and Executive Director of Encircled. He is leading a movement to get Mentor Circles (Dads included) around young people across the globe. He loves being active in the outdoors and lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota, with his “fabulous” wife and three “amazing” teenage children.

Key Quotes

• 22:55 - "When we're grounded in our identity in Christ, we can live more freely as fathers and as husbands and as brothers and sisters. And then as we think about our kids being bombarded by so many different voices at school, in the community, on their devices. We used to always tell our kids before they'd go on the bus, remember, you're a child of the risen King."
• 29:00 - "The more we can help young people to really think of a vision and goals and then apply that to make an impact in God's kingdom, it's this beautiful process in discovery because you never know what God might be up to in our kids lives. That has been meaningful for me, God, what have You put me on this earth to do? That's what I'm doing with Encircled is the pointed vision for what God put on my heart. I want to model that to my kids and be curious with them about what what God might be up to in their future."

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