Good Steward Tips
By Mike Brown (Arnold.Brown@nau.edu)
1. Ride the Flagstaff City Busses: You’ll be contributing to the sustainability of our environment and you just might get to know some friends who also ride the busses regularly.
2. “Intergenerational Interaction and Shared Wisdom”
When I joined a group of graduate students a number of years ago, we engaged in a study of new freshmen students. Our hypothesis was that they would feel free from their families and act rebelliously. To our great surprise the majority of them remained oriented to their families and others in their home communities. Our conclusion was that they expressed a great amount of wisdom, as a result of intergenerational interacting. Consequently, in my years of teaching young people I have deliberately interacted with them as part of my teaching. I also believe that the future of our church depends on deliberate intergenerational interactions.
3. “Strangers Who Help and Strangers Who Need Help”
I have had a special relationship with people of each of these kinds of strangers. The one with the first kind of stranger happened on my way home from a conference in Pennsylvania, when I lost my billfold. Before I even arrived back home I learned that a stranger had found it and was sending it at no cost to me. He was a perfect example of a helping stranger. My relationship with a stranger in need took place at a highway rests stop north of Phoenix, where a young man asked me for a ride to Sedona. When I replied that I was going to Flagstaff instead, he said that that was really where he would rather go. Therefore, I agreed to give him a ride. As we visited, he told me that he had just been released from prison and was on his way home. That bothered me some, but our trip went fine, and I felt good that I had helped him. That form of helping a stranger in need has its risks, but there are safe ways of doing that, and all of us should be willing participants.
By Mike Brown (Arnold.Brown@nau.edu)
1. Ride the Flagstaff City Busses: You’ll be contributing to the sustainability of our environment and you just might get to know some friends who also ride the busses regularly.
2. “Intergenerational Interaction and Shared Wisdom”
When I joined a group of graduate students a number of years ago, we engaged in a study of new freshmen students. Our hypothesis was that they would feel free from their families and act rebelliously. To our great surprise the majority of them remained oriented to their families and others in their home communities. Our conclusion was that they expressed a great amount of wisdom, as a result of intergenerational interacting. Consequently, in my years of teaching young people I have deliberately interacted with them as part of my teaching. I also believe that the future of our church depends on deliberate intergenerational interactions.
3. “Strangers Who Help and Strangers Who Need Help”
I have had a special relationship with people of each of these kinds of strangers. The one with the first kind of stranger happened on my way home from a conference in Pennsylvania, when I lost my billfold. Before I even arrived back home I learned that a stranger had found it and was sending it at no cost to me. He was a perfect example of a helping stranger. My relationship with a stranger in need took place at a highway rests stop north of Phoenix, where a young man asked me for a ride to Sedona. When I replied that I was going to Flagstaff instead, he said that that was really where he would rather go. Therefore, I agreed to give him a ride. As we visited, he told me that he had just been released from prison and was on his way home. That bothered me some, but our trip went fine, and I felt good that I had helped him. That form of helping a stranger in need has its risks, but there are safe ways of doing that, and all of us should be willing participants.
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