Even after a year of visiting 12 locations to present our $5 Training I still get people who ask me, “Is this for real? I can really bring all my volunteer leaders to your training for only $5 a person? C’mon, what’s the catch?” Honestly, there is no catch, I promise. Barefoot is about inspiring, challenging and equipping youth workers to do better what they already strive to do the best — build meaningful relationships with teens in order to help them find and follow Jesus. There is no catch.
Some people ask me, “How many infomercials do I need to sit through about your product?” Others sometimes say, “It must be like 1/3 training and 2/3rds promo for your products?” Nope. It is not that way at all. Our $5 Training initiative was born out of a passion to give quality training that youth workers can afford. We prefer that people are able to bring their entire teams and therefore, build community with one another as they stretch their thinking together.
Our seminars are completely legit. In my mind, they are as good as any seminar you can get at any youth worker gathering in North America. We spend hours and hours developing them and testing them. We choose the topics based off of input and feedback from networks of youth workers throughout North America and we carefully develop the schedule to maximize deep learning in such a short period of time.
Now, with that said, there is a sense of marketing to this, of course. We want to expose you to the many wonderful things that Barefoot is up to and one of the ways we do this is by telling our story through our training. BUT, it isn’t an infomercial by any stretch of the imagination. Simply said, it is a look inside of our heart and there you will find exactly what drives you, the Jesus Creed, to love God and love others.
So come to our training! Our training season kicks off on August, 28th in the greater Chicago area. We hope that you’ll join us. For more information on our complete training schedule, seminar descriptions, etc., visit HERE.
I think you’re gonna wanna come to Columbus, OH….
adam — i think you are right. we need to come to columbus!