Written by: Target Life
Article source: JOY! Magazine
“A personal word
I would like to start by sharing a very personal testimony. The Lord called me to start a discipleship year in 1998 that would impact the lives of post-school youth. I designed the process by incorporating my engineering degree, collaboration with industrial psychologists, several years of high school teaching and leadership development experience, as well as running a youth group at our home. The Lord brought it all together and, 21 years later, I am still overwhelmed with the miraculous change I see in young people almost every day of my life. Taking a group of over 70 students on a Survivor Camp and witnessing incredible breakthroughs in their personal lives and seeing the whole group transform from self-centred individuals to a caring community, becoming a family! It thrills me to see people finding their true purpose and calling in life and becoming motivated followers of Christ.
A unique characteristic of the Target Life leadership is that the Lord has anointed us with the ability to accept young people as they are and the capacity to love them and help them discover their true identity in Christ and God’s calling for their lives. Developing a close relationship with students and earning their trust opens the door for us to speak into their lives prophetically, bringing healing, igniting purpose and potential, and helping them establishing a healthy self image. The love that develops between students is a great asset in maturing in their emotional intelligence.
I am so grateful that the Lord has given us this wonderful task and brilliant process, providing many growing opportunities for our students during an unforgettable year. We enjoy facilitating Target Life’s process enormously and we absolutely love young people.”
Abel Loedolff
Head and originator of Target Life
About us
Target Life specialises in facilitating a process for post-school youth to discover their calling and purpose in life, find their true identity, unlock their full potential, acquire essential skills, ignite their passions, and forge perseverance. In so doing, this provides them with the opportunity to make a significant impact on the world around them.
The Target Life programme can ensure a more stable and meaningful future
The key to both happiness and success is to develop a balanced life. Therefore, we focus on nurturing body, soul, and spirit, thus assisting young people to deal with their past, present, and future. A year’s investment in the Target Life programme can ensure a more stable and meaningful future for themselves as individuals, their future families, and the corporate environment alike.
A well structured one-year course
Target Life is an extraordinary one-year development programme with a grounded curriculum, a wealth of youth-work expertise, and dynamic personal coaching. The outcome is to effectively transform lives. Our programme should not be confused with the general term ‘gap year’ because Target Life is a well structured one-year course. Every facet has a very specific purpose towards releasing the full potential of every individual. However, the year is a very enjoyable, unforgettable and “best year of my life” experience for the students and thus still qualifies as a gap year.
Background and experience
Two decades ago we identified a critical need for additional personal development for South African youth, due to the increasing complexity and pressures of life. The current support and development provided by parents and teachers in both homes and schools has become insufficient. We specialise in facilitating processes of personal growth and discovery in young people. Over the years, we have consciously sought to remain both relevant and current in our approach to ensure that we effectively reach our constantly changing youthful generation. The combination of our team’s varied backgrounds, expertise, and experience creates a unique synergy in supporting what has proven to be a successful and unique programme. What distinguishes Target Life is the high level of personal mentorship by our leadership team.
Future benefit
The divide between high school, tertiary education, and the ‘corporate’ sector is becoming problematic because young people’s lack of emotional intelligence is a major cause of failure. This deficiency is evident in the dropout rate of 1st year tertiary students and the growing number of students who change courses during their study years. This inadequacy equally applies to young adults entering the workforce after tertiary training. It is imperative, therefore, to cultivate self-leadership skills that will equip young people with both the hope and vision to become more competent in pursuing their future.
We cultivate self-leadership skills that will equip young people with both hope and vision
Social media has caused our youth to disconnect themselves from ‘old-fashioned’ communal activities and to live in a fragmented virtual reality. As a result, HR Departments are forced to provide extra training to make ‘next-generation’ employees efficient and stable in the workplace. The opportunities provided to students to grow their self-leadership skills during the Target Life year can significantly eliminate this problem, thus a long-term benefit emerges for tertiary education institutions, future employers, the individuals themselves, as well as the communities they live in and, ultimately, South Africa as a whole. This positive outcome brings a shift from the Target Life development programme being a luxury to becoming a necessity.
Visit our website and watch the very exciting
videos of our process and camps.
Invest a year and benefit for eternity!
www.targetlife.co.za
Contact us
General: 073 180 0765 (Solice) – targetlifegeneral@gmail.com
Office: 012 845 8370 (8:00 – 13:30)
Address: Living Word Brummeria
72 Brummeria Rd, Brummeria, Pretoria
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Date published: 20/09/2019
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