All right, everybody welcome. Thank you guys for coming to this breakout. How many of you guys enjoyed our first session? already Well, I'm not gonna be up here talking a whole lot, but my name is Zach I'm the student pastor at our Richland campus and it's my privilege today to get to host Pastor Toby Kavanaugh Pastor Toby and he can tell you a little bit more about himself, but he is the pastor of our Radiant School of Ministry and It's just an amazing man of God, amazing pastor So we are excited to get to learn from him and his wisdom today So if you guys can give it up for Pastor Toby Kavanaugh Thanks Zach So This last week our family was on a family trip. We were going to a memorial service from my wife's grandma had passed away a few months ago and We were gonna start driving in the evening to Rhode Island from here and so we had to stop somewhere at night and I don't know if it's because I was a missionary for a lot of years or because I'm really good with money Or I'm because I'm a really bad dad, but when we stop at a hotel like that I have four kids. We're getting one room and we're all sleeping one room together and So up to this point my kids are like ten nine seven and four It's worked out good because you can talk the little ones into sleeping on the floor like it's some kind of an adventure for them It's like oh, and we got this nook over here for you You know and and then you share a bed right and do the thing But this time my kids had fallen asleep in the car before we got to the hotel And so when we had to wake them up to go into the hotel They were not having any of that at all and so they're screaming. They're crying.  I'm gonna sleep on the floor And in that moment as the husband You know, you can't let that happen And so I'm like couldn't we have the little one sleep on the floor like he doesn't have seniority, you know like But I was like no, I'll do it. I'm like, no, honey. I'll do it I'll take one for the team and so I'm laying on the floor between the two queen beds We got like a hotel sheet beneath me, you know to save me from any diseases that are there And I thought that would be okay because I used to do this when I was younger And I just could not sleep for forever and You know, you kind of think you know, I'm a big boy that like it gives you a little more padding You know as you're laying down the floor, but that's not actually how it works It's just more weight driving your bones down into the hard floor And so I'm like just nap tossing and turning and as the hours go by That spirit of sacrificial agape love for my wife begins to fester into resentment, right? And you're just laying on the floor of like I'm the biggest person and I should not be on the floor I can't believe my kids are up in the bed right now. It's just horrible. Nobody loves dad I don't get any respect around here, you know, and then kind of what those thoughts running through your mind You finally fall asleep Until your kid has to pee in the middle of the night and steps in your head on the way to the bathroom And then you wake back up again So I have something else besides sleeping on the floor that keeps me up at night and it's this number 70% of all young believers walk away from their faith within their first semester on a public campus. I Find that number so arresting and so bothering It turns my heart inside out and that means just to make it real if you have 50 people in your youth group 35 of them are walking away from their Lord within the first semester on a public campus and It's not a problem with this generation The reality is the world has changed since some of us were in high school and college and our society is aligned against Against the lordship of Jesus and young people's lives in a way like it has never been before And that resistance ramps up exponentially when they go off to college And so we say to ourselves well send them to a Christian college then That doesn't really solve the problem even we include Christian colleges the numbers It's still 65% of young people are walking away from their faith when they go off to college It's like you ever put something precious like a ring or something in your pocket And you realize there was a hole in your pocket that place It seemed like it was a safe place you're putting it and all of a sudden it's gone It's like we're literally taking the future of the American church and we're putting in a bucket Just to realize there's a hole in the bottom and it's spilling all over the floor and that gets really personal when I step back and actually think about my own four kids and I consider the reality where three of them might walk away from the Lord. I Can't even engage with that idea however, I Don't believe it has to be that way The Lord has privileged me with a unique viewpoint. I've gotten to see a totally different path Over these last 15 years I've led a missions organization called campus target that sends young people into China for a year at a time on missions And I've gotten to see Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of young people that not only are they falling away from the Lord? Not only is their faith crashing when they step into those years of their life But literally they are chasing after the Lord with the zeal and a passion and a love that calls me higher a Few years ago I had a privilege out in Western New York to start a ministry training school called Ephesus and as we did and we saw these young People get raised up at that I'm seeing these young people that are chasing after the Lord with their whole heart and pursuing a lifestyle of holiness and Surrendering themselves to him with everything even as they go through this 18 19 20 21 22 these years of their life And they're actually heating up through those years And now God's privilege would be to come here to radiant and help start radiant school of ministry in the incredible young people That are the future leaders of the body of Christ that I get to work with every single day and be with every single day It makes me realize there is hope on the horizon and From this unique vantage point the Lord's given me I believe that 70% number is not our destiny in fact I believe the Lord is raising up this generation right now And they are going to be leaders and influencers and a great awakening of what God is doing in this nation fresh again I believe there's going to be a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and they're gonna be at the center of it I believe the church's best days are ahead of it, but man That's 70% number that keeps me up at night If I stop and actually think about it, it makes me a little sick to my stomach And if Jesus allows me to I'm gonna use my life to contend for that to change And seeing you guys here fill this room packed in here amazing during this conference right now I'm just guessing that if you're at this meeting right now There's something in your heart that is bothered by our present reality, too And there's something inside you that might also just want to lay your life down to see it changed And so most of my ministry has been with young adults in like the 18 to 25 age range and so I've gotten to see very close and personal over the years the results of what's poured into young people during their student years But I'm also gonna have Zach to share with me today Who's a student pastor right on the front lines right in the trenches of it right now, too And I wanted to hear both of those perspectives basically of those who are contending for it right now on either side of that Demarcation line as we're contending to see this reality change So today instead of focusing on what's not working We're actually gonna focus on what is working looking at through our personal experience what research is telling us right now What is working to actually help young people make that transition through to college and to stand strong and even grow hotter in their Faith during that time period and examining that from the different angles of what are the different things that it's happened in their Life that have come together to create the web that's caused them to have something to stick to And so one recess sort resource that's been super helpful for us is this book faith for exiles Does anyone here read this yet? Okay, if you are in student ministry right now This is an absolute must read for what's happening in the church right now It's by David Kineman who works with Barna and basis what's got the research and numbers behind understanding What's actually he takes the same view on of what's actually working right now if you are a student pastor right now Would you just lift your hand up? I want to give a couple of these way If you're if you're we're gonna do the youngest and the oldest in the room 22 21 Okay, if you are student pastoring you're over 30 ladies and gentlemen 35 40 So that that book has been super helpful for us as we've been engaging with that here We're gonna be super practical as we talk about this today. This is not gonna be all theory or anything like that We're gonna get down into what are we actually seeing work? What are them practices that are working and we're gonna draw out of our experience and the research that's happening right now five Practices that we see each of these is kind of like a line it works together to create a web Basically, that's helping young people stick through these transition years. And so our first practice will jump right in here is this Facilitate personal experiences with Jesus Facilitate personal experience with Jesus I'll probably spend my longest talking on this topic today And if I could emphasize any one thing that we talk about I feel like this is an absolutely crucial strand is that and how we do Student ministry we must facilitate personal experiences personal encounters with Jesus. What do I mean by that? I mean those moments in the presence of God when a young person feels them self connecting with Jesus in a personal way I mean those moments when they experience something supernatural and unexplainable healing a prophetic word that touches their heart a word of knowledge That's totally unexplainable. I mean those moments when they begin to experience something inside where they they hear God's voice for them self And I've spent more than a decade in China doing ministry among young people there And one of the things I've learned over their time in the secular Atheistic nation is that there is a chink in the armor of secularism and atheism That is wide open for the gospel to penetrate and it is this when they personally Experience Jesus because if somebody has been told their whole life God is not real or they're starting to wrestle with that in their own heart and then they Experience the reality of God the entire worldview collapses in a moment during the first weeks. I was in China I'm on the country. I'm coming to the country.  I have no idea what I'm doing But I just want no I want to tell people about Jesus and so my buddy Matt who went over with me were Meet this guy named Ren. He's a student on the college campus and we're having lunch with them We begin to share with Ren just our testimony We begin to share the gospel with him and as we're doing it It was like you could see Jesus doing stuff in Ren his eyes start like watering a little bit And there's this feeling of like this is the first person I'm gonna lead to Christ in China. This is like amazing It's happening right now and in the middle of the conversation All of a sudden when that moment's happening Ren just interrupts and goes well by the way I just want you to know I'm a member of the Communist Party. Oh Okay Is that a threat? I'm not even sure what that was right there. I remember he literally met my buddy I squeezed his leg under the table. Are we in trouble? Are we going to jail? And so we kind of backpedal in the conversation a little bit and are just kind of freaked out And so we talk afterwards and we pray and we said we need to give Ren a few weeks to kind of understand what that meant And just happen and see what happens So a few weeks later it was actually the day after Christmas We're on that college campus and there's this English corner gathering where students are practicing their English And we see Ren on the other side of this huge crowd at this event He says hey, don't be mad a long time no see Ren. How you doing? He said guess what? I said what? He said I became a Christian You became a what? We didn't even tell you how to do that yet So I became a crowd what happened? So it's a serious story He said I was involved with a girl on campus and I found out some things So I went into the health clinic on campus to have some tests done and I came back HIV positive Oh, this is serious He said I felt like my life was over HIV had a huge stigma and shine at that time He could have gotten kicked out of college even and stuff like that And so he's just like my life's over and she's just walked around the campus numb He tells me he said all of a sudden it just hit me I just began to cry Toby and so I just ran up the the stairs to my fourth floor dorm room And I just went in and I just because laying by my bed and I was crying and crying and crying And he tells me it right here this English corner He says I looked up through my tears and on my roommate's bookshelf. I saw a Chinese Bible His roommate wasn't a Christian. He was a religion major in school. He said but I remembered what you told me about Jesus so he said I walked over and I I grabbed the Bible off the shelf and I Didn't know what to look at or anything So I just flipped it open randomly and I looked down and the words hopping off the page to me where I will heal you He slams the Bible shut, you know He's been told there's no God his whole life. He's an atheist through and through that doesn't make sense at all He goes over to the Bible a second time randomly opens it again. It says you will be healed a Third time he randomly opens the scriptures and it's a verse about healing So he said I didn't know what to do told me I just started making promises to God He says I told him if you heal me Jesus, I will follow you for my whole life I'm gonna tell my family and friends about you. He said I'm gonna change my birthday to today We even talked about being born again. He got that all on his own So I'm gonna change my birthday to today and he had a scholarship said I'm gonna give away my scholarship to someone who needs it more than me So the peace of God just fills the room and he falls asleep on his bed The next morning he goes back in to get the confirming test done on his HIV diagnosis and it comes back totally clean He's totally healed And so now he's at this English corner. He says told me I'm gonna tell my family and friends. I'm following Jesus for my whole life I got a new birthday. I just have one question. Do I have to give my scholarship away? I Said run we will let you figure that out Let me tell you something Ren who is following Jesus never doubted God again, okay? When you personally experience the living God it changes everything it breaks down every Stronghold or attack that can come against that belief that tries to push you away from your faith because you've actually Experienced it and as we work with our radiant school of ministry students here and I get their stories I've gotten to know them over the course of the year almost every single one of them There was some experience they had during their teen years where their faith became real for them He was at a bold conference in Kansas City where they were there and they experienced the power of God and all of a sudden that was the marking line of their life and they turn change and where they're going and now they're chasing after Jesus with all Their heart Each of them has around some of circuit riders came to Western University and and and while they Western Michigan while they were there Healing started happening a three or four of them gave their lives to Jesus as college students and now they're chasing after them with all Their lives and God does this where he gives his experience But it's not just what brings people into the kingdom the reality as these Experiences serve as anchors that hold us in the kingdom Others here very vulnerably from my own personal experience You know we started this China ministry and it blew up God's favor was all over we have 60 missionaries in China We're 25 years old. We have no idea what we're doing at all And in the midst of that my best friend who went with me in the beginning and founded the whole thing began to have a crisis of faith And he overnight basically quit his faith was falling apart his wrestling with all kinds of personal stuff He started blogging about it publicly so it impacted our whole group and everything like this and in that time I moved from being in China for a few years back to the States and for those of you that have worked with missionaries at all That move back to the States is often very very difficult and takes a lot of your resilience away And so as I'm in this vulnerable place I'm seeing my best friend walk through this crisis of faith and all of a sudden all this doubt starts to bubble up in my heart too and I'm wrestling with it and I'm probably a little burnt out. So I'm exhausted and just going through this really difficult season of wrestling in doubt And the thing that brought me out of that Was I was alone with the Lord and I was wrestling with all that stuff and I just came to conclusion I have seen and I have tasted too much. I Just began to review the experiences of my life the prophetic words that have been spoken over me the miracles that I had seen And it was just I just said I cannot deny this no matter this cloud of whatever the enemy is doing over my mind right now I have an anchor because I have tasted and I have seen and When we can help facilitate those kind of experiences for our students We actually are helping them put anchors into solid ground, you know It there can be a thing that says no experiences This is just summer camp stuff you you're high and then you're back in the valley and you lose the whole thing And yes, there is other things that matter too We'll talk about in a second, but you cannot ignore the holding power of having absolutely personally experienced Jesus Zach I just want to invite you up bro. Anything you want to share from kind of your experience on the student size of stuff Yeah, no, it's so good when a pastor Toby is saying and then just really practically I want to hit on how this has impacted me and even in our youth ministry today me and Pastor Preston's over there We had to leave it together So we grew up together in Colorado Springs, Colorado New Life Church David Perkins who's here. He's gonna be speaking. He was our youth pastor So it's fun now 15 years later getting to do ministry together and so being in touch with him, but For both of us me and Preston we grew up again kind of height of Mid-2000s youth ministry, you know, it's like fear factor nights and we're locking kids in a coffin and with crickets and eating like This crazy wild stuff in I mean in along with that like I mean massive conferences 10,000 students in a room our youth group was over a thousand kids a week for a time But both of us will tell you this is it was not the thousand or 10,000 kids at a conference that got us It wasn't the crazy hype nights that got us. It wasn't the pizza the air pods Whatever you're giving away that got us but for me even my story What the reason why I'm here today is because I met Jesus in a little tiny prayer room that they had open 24-7 in the church and it was called the red room. It was really creepy if you think about it Like it was painted red and like there's like red lights and people are writing prayers on the wall But I'm here today because in a dark moment of my life. I went to the red room But uh, and I met Jesus He walked in the room and he talked to me and it's like that's why I'm here today And I think I would bet money that most of us youth pastors are doing what we're doing today because of a moment like that So my question that I'm asking myself is why the heck do we spend so much time not making those moments? So does even my story again even in leading in student ministry a few years back I just had a moment where I started looking at my hours of my week my budget and Even what I'm thinking about and it's my thoughts and I'm like I'm spending Over half my time my budget and my thoughts towards these giant events Trying to get new kids in the door and invite your friends and we're gonna have pizza and here's some earpods And it's gonna be so it's gonna be the best night of your new life Like you know like we try to we say all this crap to try to get kids to come and I'm like why Again, and you know cuz you have those big nights and you know you have two three hundred kids in a room But it's like do you know any of their names the next day? Did any of them come the next week So for us we've just been in a process of where are we putting our priorities and it has to be encountering the Lord So few things that looks like for us. Just really practically is we build our youth ministry around a permitting We have weekly expressions of ministry that take place if that's a Wednesday night senior high Sunday Sunday morning junior high We build our prayer or our youth ministry around a Monday night permitting But we have 80 leaders in a room and we're encountering the presence of God every single week praying for schools Encountering the presence of God. That's a big one other one is just trips events and This is not even like flashy trips. It's not like hey We're planning a big conference and we're gonna have a competition and a giant slime war or whatever But it's like we're gonna get even two weeks ago We're gonna get 40 kids in a house and we're gonna get an acoustic guitar and a cajon and we're gonna encounter the power of God Doesn't have to be flashy. It's not complicated when we were planning that event, you know Easy it was is hey, we're renting a house and I get a worship leader And we show up in the power of God falls in kids are still talking to us a couple weeks later about like how it changed their life And I believe even seeds were sown in that moment. So just really practically it's like It's not complicated, but it's what are we and it's what pastor Lita's talked about are we more concerned About building our ministry or building the kingdom So it's all I got so all I have to say about that Yeah, you know those two things he touched on right one building into the weekly rhythm of what you're doing your student ministries Moments of encounter where they use the prayer meeting here is kind of center for what they're doing There's other ways to do that too. You got to have it in the regular rhythm of what's happening But then to that he mentioned to and I think this is so crucial is to invest Heavy in big events that will help promote those encounters. I'm not talking about the fear factor thing I'm talking about go into bold conference taking your students on a mission strip those things that basically are Super time-intensive and super hard work and they're very easy to talk yourself out to out of because of that Those things actually make a difference. I can think of mission strips I went on as a teenager that led to me being a missionary for 15 years I can think of encounters sitting in the back row of a conference that literally changed the trajectory of my life and Don't don't ignore those things just because They're not the complete package And then the third thing I would say though in this area and this is something I'm very passionate about is to train Your young people to spend regular unhurried time with Jesus What one of the interesting numbers actually in that book in the study is that 90% of those who make it kind of We're in that good group not the 70% They say when I read the Bible, I know how to encounter Jesus That was a statement they agreed with and the numbers like 30% for all the others that fade it fall away And so they basically learned at some point along the way how to actually meet Jesus in their quiet time And even though we could all in this room right now would acknowledge that spending time with Jesus is an incredibly important part of following him I'm incredibly important part of growing with him. I can count on one hand the number of churches and Families I've met in my entire life that actually trained their kids to do it. I didn't say teach I said train and so I don't mean standing up in front of them and saying here's four things You can do in your quiet time which that is also valuable, but I mean actually do it together Let them watch you do it Tell them what to do and then have them do it in front of you and then talk about it afterwards and Actually train them of those things that we're saying are the most important things and that how do you do that? You can take a part of your students time every single week for 15 minutes You just haven't every each kid do that or you do a special thing once every three months where you do that You train people you have a special there's tons of ways to do it But actually train them to do that because if they learn how to do that They will become a vehicle of themselves can having continual encounters with the Lord that put those anchors in their life Okay, number two second second practice here. I Think you know, we all know instinctively that those experiences are not enough on their own, right? We need to help our students be grounded in the unchanging reality of God's word and The specific practice though. I want to talk about today is this to contrast the Bible with culture To contrast the Bible with culture for many years what I did is I would teach is I would just stand up and I would just teach my students the Bible and You know, I found though that as the world has changed My methods needed to change and that what they are getting from other sources is now pushing hard enough Against what the Bible is saying in their life that I need to highlight for them the contrast between the two things So they can see that's different and those things are not having the ability to sneak into their mindsets Okay, and so Jesus we see actually do this in the Sermon on the Mount, right? What does he say you have heard it said? But I say unto you you have heard it said right You shall not murder whoever murders will be liable to judgment But I say unto you that anyone who is angry with his brother will face judgment You've heard it said you shall not commit adultery But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart You heard it said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth But I say to you do not resist the one who is evil But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek turn to him the other also and he's looking at the culture of the people He's speaking to an Israel and he's taking quotes from the Old Testament law even and he's showing the incompleteness of that perspective as he contrasts it with what he's bringing to teach to them and What I found is that I need to actually make that clear contrast as I'm teaching students And this was a shift that has to happen in your teaching that you actually declare What culture is saying and then show the contrast and so just you know in real short here, right? You've heard it said that you discover the truth about yourself by looking inside yourself But I say to you you discover the truth and the person of Jesus Christ and in his word You've heard it said you should pursue the things you desire the most. It's about you You do you but I say to you seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you You've heard it said that love is love But I say to you God is love and he determines what it looks like You've heard it said that gender is a matter of personal choice But I say into you gender was established by God in the beginning as a part of his plan for all creation Okay, and so I'm taking things that they're hearing every day through every TV show they watch every video game They play every song they listen to is programming them with a certain perspective I'm saying you're hearing this and I'm telling you something different here right now and Being able to contrast like that. I had a cool experience my kids just recently with this Our kids they love the Lord, but it was like when we were in church and worshipping they just like we're not really worshipping They were just kind of like hands in the pockets and I'm like this is not what I'm raising my kids to be And so I was just wrestling with this a little bit and so my wife was sick one day So we were home from church and I just said we're not gonna watch radio online I'm a daddy's gonna teach today And so we did we did some worship and then I stood up and I just began to teach them from the Bible From the Psalms we see the seven different Hebrew words for praise. You've never seen this before it's amazing The different words you see praise in the book of Psalms, right? There's actually seven different words and they mean things like bowing down lifting your hands dancing around clamorously Different things like that and I just began to say in the Bible. This is how God tells us He wants to be worshipped. I talked about kneeling.  The next week pastor Preston sends me a picture of my oldest daughter Maya in junior high church And it's a picture of her just kneeling on the ground with her hands like this worshiping God It's one of my most precious possessions now that he sent to me It was just this precious precious thing and what I realized, you know, I planted a seed that helped her engage with that Okay, and it's those kind of messages that help our students Zach, anything you want to share practically on this one? Yeah, I think really practically Language that I've used as I've been talking to my kids about this is first Corinthians to wisdom of God versus wisdom of the world we have to recognize that there is a wisdom of the world and But challenging them to again use cultural discernment from the word of God to engage those things So I think one thing practically that we need to do is we cannot shy away from hard topics We have to talk about the difficult things and I know sometimes like as a youth pastor you're coming in you're like I'm 22 23 like am I qualified to talk about this like I just think We don't have to be experts, but we have to join the conversation on these things. So even the other week I um, I preached on racism to my students I'm like we need to understand what the word of God says about racism Let's have a theology for the the one people of God Let's have a theology for celebrating diversity and the people of God Let's read the bible and realize I read revelation four five and six and we see every nation tribe and tongue Worshiping Jesus in their own language Like we have to get that and but even more even though I think it's so significant to have a theology That addresses things like racism. I think the more important Message I didn't even talk about that night was the bible is relevant to the world we live in Right like don't go get discipled on tiktok or instagram The word of God has a worldview for these things and I think so often youth pastors You know, we're like just talking Jesus loves you and like how can you have good friends and those are good things But I think it gets the therapeutic Theology we have this idea that God it just exists to make me feel good But then for real real problems in the world. Okay, I got it.  Where's this live q&a? We do not do live q&a with students Gosh, we do not do live q&a with students. Even our Texans are pretty uh pretty crazy But um, but we say hey do q&a series. We're doing a series called raw this next month We're just talking about raw conversations about sex raw conversations about Gender raw conversations about whatever they want to talk about like we're digging into these hard topics I think as youth ministries again, we've got to teach cultural discernment In the world of word of God we have to teach God's version of wisdom And recognize that there's a worldly wisdom that seems wise. That's the last thing I'll say about that Like it's the world's wisdom seems wise to the world It seems wise to our kids and if we don't give them a biblical reason if we just say hey, that's wrong We don't give them the actual reasons if we don't engage it theologically Our kids are going to get torn apart in college Good Zach It's a really good idea We're working on what we're going to hit on even parent involvement. That's kind of our next point. You're you know where we're going As someone who over this last year came into the radiant movement from the outside One of the things that is so precious about this movement And it flows from pastor lee Is he loves the bible Like he just loves the bible like when I first came here like pastor lee has like his real nice expensive bible And that's like the gifts he gives like these really expensive bibles and like me i'm coming from new york I'm like this must be like a midwest thing like this like like at first I was like I don't get really what the deal Is here like the midwest thing your expensive bibles always spent 20 bucks on mine. I'm not really sure what the deal is here But as I've been here, I've realized it's just a manifestation that he loves the bible And it bleeds through this church and it bleeds through this movement And for those of you that are part of this radiant movement lean into that because you actually just loving the bible will ooze out And multiply in your students a love for a bible because here's the deal you teach what you know But you reproduce who you are Okay, and who you are if you love the bible and you have this inside your heart That is actually going to get caught by your students and that will give them one of these strings in the web That holds them close to christ through the most difficult times Okay, number three and our question did go this way Practice basically helping our students not be in the 70 percent Involve parents and mentors in their discipleship Involve parents and mentors in their disciples discipleship One of the markers as you look at the studies of those whose faith is making it through the transition to adulthood Is that they have multi-generational relationships in the church Uh, they're being poured into and loved by those who are older than themselves They're they're twice as likely those those who stay are twice as likely as those who fall away to feel valued by And get input from believers who are older than them They're much more likely to have positive emotional experiences with people at church I saw tweet that said it this way the teenager who looks over their congregation and thinks these are my people I belong here looks up at the heaven and says this is my god. I belong in his presence And basically as that these relationships happen like this We as student pastors and leaders can help facilitate that and actually I feel like these guys are doing an amazing job here at the church With that, so I just want to let Zach share about this a little bit more um Yeah, so with with family and I think it's kind of the two part again multi-generational Discipleship bringing in older people but also the family element and specifically the family Element has just been something the lord's really burdened me uh for specifically in in this Kind of post-covid world. Um, there was an interview with again david kineman um talking about again current statistics and Basically what he said is like we're at a point of no return for our culture when we look at biblical worldview church attendance Whatever like we're at a point of no return for our culture. He's like unless two things happen He's like the first is we need a awakening revival move of god and he I mean he was encouraging He's like hey, there's been points in us history not just world history us history Where church attendance? World view has been worse than it is today, but each time god sovereignly moves. There's an awakening There's a revival of love for god love for the word of god So he's like we need to pray for revival And I think most of us in this room would be behind that is we need to see revival The second piece is really what hit me hard. But he said with that we need a radical re-emphasis of family discipleship In the past 50 years, we've seen the nuclear family be deconstructed in our country and In a lot of ways, but Parents no longer in our churches parents no longer see the see hold the responsibility of discipling their kids And I'm sure even in this room and how many times does a parent say hey will you come mentor my kid?  I'm gonna pray for him I'm gonna give him wisdom steps to like get help, but I can't fix that. I think Again, here's here's my thing. I think we have viewed youth ministry as a department in the church We need to see next gen ministry as a mission of the church in the church congregation In student ministries and in families I think church congregations need to change their thinking Student ministry is not a church amenity to get families to come and tithe We don't exist to like make parents comfortable in on sunday mornings that they can show up and tithe That's just not it. We can't do that anymore. We have to see it as again the mission to make disciples is the next generation 2016 66 of christians except The lord before they're 18. This is the biggest mission field of the church young people Second student ministries. We need to become a discipleship machine not an attraction a little bit We're not here to just to get butts in seats. We need to make disciples But then the third part is families. I think we need as student ministries. We have a responsibility to equip parents We need to train parents and again, we're wrestling with this. This is a conversation We're having as a church currently, but like how are we equipping parents to disciple their kids? And not just saying like hey, here's a book or like pray for him Like how can we really have a training process for parents to make disciples? I think that needs to be holistic I think again that can look like a lot of things if that's older people on your volunteer team We bring in A church elders to like pray for our kids for our seniors from the graduate That's a really cool moment like even creating relationships intergenerationally in the church There's I think a lot of practicals that we're still working out I'm sure some of you guys would have great ideas for that But but the biggest thing that we're feeling is like we need to re-emphasize the family's role to make disciples If people in your church think it's your job to disciple their kid, you've already lost Like parents have to get that it's their responsibility to disciple their kid And even we talked on this me and pastor Preston a few weeks ago and just just even challenging parents. It's like parents And there's a lot of parents that are more concerned about their kid's baseball scholarship than their eternal salvation And instead of us just complaining about that with our kids we need to disciple the parents so that they can disciple their kids So just some thoughts. I don't yeah, we're working it out It's good number four here Create a missional environment Create a missional environment One of the most powerful things you can do to help your students be in the world But not of it is to help them see their place while they're in the world That they are here as ambassadors of christ And that when a student begins to embrace mission it literally flips a switch and changes the way they view everything I've gotten to experience this so powerfully over the years because of the work I've done in china where I take young people 18 19 years old over to china for a year with me And they step into actually being a missionary in china reaching other college students there with the gospel And I've just seen time and time again that when the student takes that step To change their mindset to think of themselves as a missionary Something switches inside their mind and heart all of a sudden a new energy and urgency for their own pursuit of god Comes in because they actually need him for what they have to do that day They begin to walk into each day not being influenced by their environment But with an intention to be an influencer in their environment think about it for a second When I think of myself as a missionary I think of myself as someone who is outside of but influencing And when a student a young person and then you have to be going overseas But when they begin to get that mindset about their life here in the states Switch flips inside and they shift from being basically Influensible and passively receiving messages all the time to now being basically an active part of that process And then if you can help your students flip that switch it changes everything in this issue that we're talking about There's an aspect of a young person's heart that only comes alive When they're living for something bigger than themselves And god himself put that in the heart of every young person And the world is happy to grab that place if you're not going to give them a mission And so they will find their bigger than themselves thing out in the world somewhere if we don't actually share the mission of the church with them You know building a missional environment means that in our student ministries Everything we're doing is imbued with this idea of we are trying to reach others for christ that great commission mindset It's a challenge to invite friends to come to events. It's a training on how to share the gospel with their friends It's preaching on the great commission and evangelism. That's the statistic Only 10 percent of millennial churchgoers know what the great commission is The parting words of jesus before he left this earth One of the things that is like the crowning scripture verses in the bible only 10 percent of millennial christians know what it is 50 percent say they've never even heard the phrase Wow Another 40 percent they've heard it, but they don't know what it means We have not shared with these younger generations who have this hole in their heart looking for something bigger than themselves The gift that jesus gave them if they have a purpose and something worth living for And so it's very very important And so the evidence is very clear across statistics that those whose faith makes it through that college transition Have some kind of missional dna in them. Here's some statistics of what they say 75 percent strongly believe I have a responsibility to tell others about my beliefs It's less than half of that for every other kind of churchgoer 66 percent are excited about the church's mission in the world. It's less than half of that for every kind of churchgoer There's something in this group that makes it that says I have embraced the mission of god for my life And it's really cool seeing how in the regular things we can do in our student ministries. They'll actually catch it So my oldest daughter mai is 10 and she's in the junior high ministry at porridge We're pastor Preston is the student ministries pastor and I don't even know what all he does with her But the other night I'm putting mai to bed and i'm laying next to her in a bed and we're talking as I get ready to say good night to her And she goes oh just a second She gets up climbs out of her bed. I'm just sitting there by myself in the bed now. What's going on?  Something has been planted inside her heart through what she's experienced. I didn't buy that calendar for I don't even know where she got it from I didn't tell her you should have a daily habit of praying for unreached people groups of the world Even though that is something important to me She caught that from others that were influencing her and if we can create an environment not just foreign missions But where people begin to think of their life as having a mission it changes everything One of the ways that both repressed and zak and myself when we talk about this is we talk to our students about Viewing themselves as missionaries to their school Okay, that is a phrase we use all the time We talk about all the time and it turns upside down their mindset for the life It takes the great commission away from being some kind of future radical reality for some people to something That is real for me today and it takes the concept of a missionary one who's giving their life for a mission And calls them to step up to the plate now And so when I preach to young adults all around the country I use that language and concept and I'm seeing young people step up into that give their lives for that So many times I speak at conferences hundreds and hundreds of young people are offering themselves up for that mission Why because there's something in their heart that Jesus created too long to be a part of something like that And when I put the challenge out there There's an echo in their soul and they're stepping into that And if you would challenge your young people to be missionaries to their high school Something gets activated them beyond what is happening otherwise Zach, I know you guys are doing this real just tell us what it's about Yeah, just a quick testimony without I want to share Preston's testimony. Um, I don't share mine. I'll share his but um But again, this language be a campus missionary was drilled into us as young people was hey Like go start a prayer meeting on your school evangelize pray for people on your school campus We talked about it every week. Um Part of Preston's testimony again in that language even being a campus missionary like it was always like hey praying god What do you have for me at my school? What are you leading me to do at my school? And um, what's so cool again about Preston's stories as he was praying He felt the lord tell him to change the school that he'd been going to for 10 years 13 years and go be a missionary to a public school in our city He had been again He'd grown up again It was a charter school really great school top ranked test scores or whatever But the lord said go change schools and be a missionary to another school I think that is such a powerful testimony of the fruit of Again campus missionary culture do your kids see themselves as missionaries to their schools Even my story again my senior year. I ended up rallying my campus run a prayer meeting where we would pray three times a week we would go on parent teacher workdays or whatever like Conference days and we would pray from like 6 a.m. To 6 p.m. On our school campus like we'd have shifts And it culminated with uh calling my campus to pray and fast for a move of god at the end of our school year again And that dna that's in us. It wasn't there an accident. It didn't just happen But it was uh leaders like david perkins Steph and david saying you are a missionary to your school today Your christian faith doesn't begin when you turn 18 like you are the church today So those are just some testimonies again. I think getting your kids to start a prayer meeting on on school campus It's it's got to be it's a metric of engagement even what pastor lee was talking about How are your students engaging? Are they praying on their school campus? So good Preston you're cooler every time I hear a story about you Okay, uh last one here. Then we'll do a little q&a number five Make the investment to lay their foundation deep Make the investment to lay their foundation deep I believe that their environment and the world has changed over these last couple decades But that our advice and as parents and pastors for what to do when they graduate high school has just stayed the same And for many of our churches and families their plans for our young people are something like this Go to college get a bachelor's degree get a job get married And in my opinion the advice we're giving our young people is too small for the hour in which they live It's like in sports, you know in sports the clock determines the play right Like if you think of a football game or something like that and in the first quarter of a football game Like you're doing certain kinds of plays you do a little three-yard run up the middle to establish their run You're thinking through things like that But in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter you don't do that same play the clock determines the play the hour of the game It's not appropriate to do the run in that kind of moment It's not the right play in that situation And for many of us in the church we are still calling the same plays as we have for the last 40 years when the world has changed Underneath of us and we have to think differently about the plays We are in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter right now the play calling has to change And so for in my mind we must encourage our students to Invest in their faith and that strategic moment of leaving home after high school For those of you who've walked through students with this or you've done any kind of campus ministry at college at all That moment when a student leaves home for the first time their heart And their life become wet cement for a season And over that next season it is going to be molded the the habits they have for their life The values and the way they think about things and the trajectory of where they're going is going to be molded during that unique wet cement season So why during that wet cement season are we sending them into universities where every part of the situation is built to draw them away from christ We're calling a play from 40 years ago. That is no longer appropriate today This is the advice and challenge i give for every young person today for every christian parent for every student pastor that wants to set the precious person They've invested so much in on on a path that is going to actually lead them where they want them to go Take a gap year And invest it into some kind of discipleship environment Get them into that wet cement season of leaving the house for the first time and let it be in a discipleship environment That molds that wet cement for where they want to go for the rest of their life Okay, and so have them go to discipleship school or school ministry for a year have them go with yam Have them be an intern in your church. I'll bring with my team to china if you don't know what to do with them Okay, we'll get them over there. We'll do crazy stuff But do something that sets them up in a discipleship environment. I don't mean a christian college. That's not the same thing That's the play from 40 years ago. Okay, no longer sufficient today They put them in a discipleship environment that is forming them and shaping them for what god's called them to do Over this last year I moved my family across the country here to start radiant school of ministry because I believe we need stuff like that here And so we have shaped every part of this thing to try to help develop resilient disciples of jesus christ And so whether it's the week to week stuff or the big events we do we're helping to facilitate encounters with jesus Where they meet him in ways that become anchors for their whole life as the director of the school One of the main things I do is I'm with them at eight in the morning and we open the bible together And we talk about how do you read the bible? How do you pray? Let's practice it together Let's talk about it afterwards and training them how to spend a regular unhurried time with jesus We're contrasting the bible and culture and talking about that stuff together We're putting trustworthy mentors in their lives that are having regular one-on-ones with the help making it real And we do regular out. I haven't I had a fight for this when we designed the thing I get them out for six weeks into the mission fuel as a part of the program because I think it's so important That they get that missions thing activated in their life We are building a booster shot To come into the disciples of it's already happened in the family in the local church to set them up for the hour in which they live Okay, and so that is my challenge to you as student pass. You cannot use the plays from 40 years ago Come to youth group go to college. Everything's going to work out fine It is not appropriate for the fourth quarter and that's where we are right now You have to call the play that works now and so make the investment in their faith And as to me it starts even with this group right here that are working with young people Because you're not only having to disciple the young people in this idea. You have to disciple parents too Okay, some parents in some ways are going to be the biggest challenge and changing this new way of thinking Is they want their kids to succeed? They want their kids to not fall behind or anything like that And so there's they're on that 40 years ago play that seems like it worked in the past It is not working today 70 of our kids are walking away from their faith things Must change and we have to embrace that reality disciple the kids and prepare the parents for it too Don't keep calling first quarter plays in the fourth quarter So those five practices facilitate personal experiences with Jesus Contrast the bible with culture involve parents and mentors in discipleship Create a missional environment and make the investment to lay the foundation deep the gap year Those are the five things that we're serving what we're seeing right now is we're looking at research They're so important for changing our present reality and seeing the church step into its finest hour Okay, I want to open it up as we finish up here just any questions on this idea any of these ideas and what we'll go right there If I see you on that Yeah, I think you got to disciple the parents that you have You know, if you're not discipling the parents you don't have Or you won't if you're not discipling the parents you have you'll never disciple the parents you don't have So it's like if it's not even a value in the families that go to your church Like it has to start there and I think after that it can be something you bring to other parents But um, again, and I think practically kind of what we've seen is how you interact with parents changes over the years Again as like when you're working with kids ministry It's all parents junior high kind of start string to a hybrid Senior high is parents giving the credit card to sign up for a treat Kind of thing and you know, and there's some senior high parents that are more involved and that's awesome And I think we got to lean into those relationships like whenever parents like hey, I want to get lunch with you It's like clear your calendar and make it happen Um, but I think you got to disciple the parents you do have just some ideas that we've been thrown around It's like what would it look like to have a parenting conference? Uh, a church that's doing this really well is um, john tyson in a church of the city in new york. He has like a Parenting Webinar thing every month where he talks about spirit led parenting like what are we doing in our churches to empower parents? That's good And just to speak hope into this many times once a student gives their lives to christ Their family is just a domino to follow later and especially if you're creating that missional environment I think just our students here at rsm this year We have multiple students that have led family members to christ one girl led both of her siblings to christ another girl Works at a like a home for older people She's led 10 people to christ at that home over the course this year Once they begin to catch this stuff it will spread to their families that that's it's unavoidable Good other questions Talk for a second about what you guys do to kind of get that campus missionary thinking and actually happen happen become real Yeah, um, you got to talk about it a lot I think that's this language like from you got to preach on it You got to talk about it But for moments again, I think that moments in the presence of god encourage mission to people again It starts in prayer it starts in counter and then it goes out So again, I think again investing into those encounter moments One thing that we do for our seniors specifically again even hitting on that mission We're planing it right now, but we do a prophetic Presbytery for our seniors each year so more than it's like saying hey, we're going to like throw a party and like Here's a bible like we have a prophetic presbytery We reach out to pastors elders in the church and we give them each graduating senior and they pray for a month And then we have a big banquet and they prophesy over our seniors and they're prophesying purpose calling Whatever again, it is powerful. It's such a it's a marking moment and what's so cool, too Is then that encourages discipleship we have seniors that got prophesied over By elders in our church and they've been mentoring them for the past three four years So it's like stuff like that so again encouraging having prophetic culture using it in your language In faith for exiles they talk about creating a culture for vocational calling So understanding like following Jesus for some people looks like ministry, but for a lot it looks like Ministry not in the church Right like having that language like maybe you're called you you have a gifting for engineering. Hey go be a disciple maker in the engineering field One of the things I believe really strongly and that is a little less in favor today Maybe then it was in the past is having moments of response to a challenge in the presence of god And we consider like altar moments maybe Because that acts, you know They live in a culture that every message is that you should be driven by your emotions And when I bring them to a place of making a decision I'm teaching them to be a wheel driven person not an emotions driven person And and so when I create those moments of I'm responding to something right now lord The call's been out to offer yourself up as missionaries to your high school. I've now come to the front I'm on my knee saying lord. You can use me however you want to use me. I'm I'm yours Basically those moments as they experience the spirit and that is going to have because their will is involved too Is going to have directional impact on their life It's good Any advice basically to create a culture of training which is on me Let's just be honest because it starts with leadership How could what can I do to best train the students to have just Thirst for god and like just to be able to go out into the mission field into the world and just run like wildfire These two guys have done an incredible job on that one once I can see that Get your leaders in your home encounter god with your leaders You know don't like you're not there to show your leaders how to encounter god like encounter god with your leaders Have worship nights in your house. Honestly like starting off Um, it's such a cool opportunity because you don't have to rebuild anything So even one thing, um, even pastor presson Um, can he two years now? He's been here But um, we we were kind of in a season of kind of a reset two years ago And he came in and really led so strong just against simon simon cynic start with why Which our mission statement is we exist to make resilient disciples And we say it again and again and again like we're preaching on I don't even know friendship and we're like throwing that in there Like it's like every single time we talk every time we meet with our team. We're hitting that y We exist to make resilient disciples and even like pastor toby as we were prepping for this He asked me it's like do you what's your program for discipleship? And it kind of it honestly kind of confused me for a second. I was like it's like we don't really have a program It's just what we do it's who we are it's culture You know in having a culture that knows your values and knows who you are more than do you have a discipleship program? Do you have a discipleship culture? Yeah, and culture is caught by being close to you You guys have been amazing for those joining us online. Thanks so much for being with us For those you guys that are here come on up. I see a couple hands still in the back come up We're happy to chat and answer questions And then for those of you that have young people that you feel like something like that next kind of a Step is important over this next season talk to us about radiant school ministry Anything we can do to serve you guys and have an amazing rest of your day


As we learned in Professor J.T. Bushnell's What is a Conflict video, the stories that we read and the movies and plays that we watch are driven by conflicts. Sometimes those conflicts are between two people, what we usually call the protagonist and the antagonist, like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort, or Spider-Man and the Green Goblin. At other times, the conflict is a bit more nuanced and involves a tension between what a given protagonist wants in the world and what the world gives him in return. In either case, the narratives of most stories will build towards what's called the climax, the moment of highest tension that leads to the resolution of the conflict and makes way for the conclusion. This model of storytelling should be pretty familiar to most viewers of this channel. What might be less obvious is why that key moment in the text is so useful to consider when writing a literary essay or discussing the meaning of a given story or movie. In this brief lesson, I want to share with you two important, interrelated properties of climaxes that have been useful to me in my teaching. Approaching climaxes with these properties in mind will help you to develop sophisticated interpretations of the literature you love. The origin of the word hints at the first reason why climaxes are so important in storytelling. In ancient Greek, the word klemox means staircase or ladder. And just as staircases and ladders can give you a bird's eye view of what is below you, the climax of a story gives you a bird's eye view of its central conflict, offering a great vantage point to help you to spot major themes or ideas associated with that conflict in a clear way. This vantage point can be incredibly useful for early readers of complex literature, who often struggle to distinguish the key theme or themes of a given story from the swirl of characters, plot devices, and secondary themes that surround it.  Consider Ian Lee's masterfully ironic and incredibly complex story, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. The story follows the life of Mr. Xu, a retired Chinese rocket scientist, or so he claims, who travels to the United States to be with his daughter after her recent divorce. The first few pages of the story, Mr. Xu is desperate to uncover the reason why, quote, the boat of his daughter's marriage ran into a hidden rock, believing that whatever the reason, it must not be her fault. He also wants to comfort his daughter as she deals with what he presumes as the disgrace of being abandoned by her husband. Throughout the first two-thirds of the story, his efforts are foiled again and again by his daughter, who refuses to discuss the details of her life or be comforted by the many acts of kindness that he tries to bestow upon her. Their awkward exchanges push Mr. Xu and his daughter further apart, and this conflict constitutes what a literary critic might call the rising action of the narrative. At this point in the story, attentive readers would probably expect two different climaxes for the narrative. On the one hand, Mr. Xu's daughter might finally reveal the truth behind her divorce to Mr. Xu, and through the revelation, they might be reconciled. On the other hand, depending on the nature of the revelation, it could push them apart, leading to the disillusion of the family. Lee's story seems to dutifully fulfill that expectation when Mr. Xu's daughter answers a phone call late in the story. Leaving the door open to her bedroom, she allows Mr. Xu to overhear her conversation with a man she's been having an affair with. This affair, she later tells her father, is what led her to the divorce, making her the abandoner rather than the abandoned. Now, this is a big reveal, and it does lead the two primary characters to a heated argument, but this isn't the actual climax. One page later, when his daughter tells Mr. Xu that he and her mother never talked about the problems of their marriage, Mr. Xu tells her that his job as a rocket scientist forced him to withdraw from the family. It is here that the actual climax occurs.  We were just quiet people. But it's a lie. No, it's not. I know I made a mistake of being too preoccupied with my work, but you have to understand I was quiet because of my profession. Baba, Mr. Xu's daughter said, hid it in her eyes. You know it's a lie too. You were never a rocket scientist. Mama knew, I knew, everybody knew. What everybody knew as we discover in the falling action is that Mr. Xu was dismissed from his position as a rocket scientist because of an office affair that he had carried out 42 years ago. When the affair is discovered by his superiors, Mr. Xu is reassigned to a job far beneath that of the job he claims to hold. Throughout the rest of his life, he has tried to keep this revelation from his family. These efforts, coupled with the fact that his wife and daughter knew about the affair, are what drive his family from him. Phew, this is a big reveal. Like most climaxes, it occurs near the end of the story. And like most good climaxes, it offers a surprise that modifies our understanding of a central conflict. This modification illustrates how paying attention to the climax of a story can help us to understand the central themes and ideas within it. Instead of a simple and ethically dubious story about a father trying to rescue his daughter from supposed ruin, through this climax we're instead given a much murkier and more interesting story of Mr. Xu trying to somehow address or correct or rewrite the tragic story of his past by projecting that story onto his daughter's life. The sudden shift in our understanding of the conflict also forces us to quickly recalibrate our understanding of the key themes of the story. Instead of a story about the links to which a father can go to comfort his daughter, it becomes a story of a man whose anxieties, guilt, and shame drive his actions to such an extent that he cannot see himself or his family clearly. It is also the story of a daughter's responsibility for propping up or puncturing a father's fantasies. As Professor Bushnell's video also suggests, Mr. Xu's themes can often be expressed as questions, and a few good ones to ask here might be, which is more important for Mr. Xu and his daughter, a duty to the self or a duty to family? How are their answers to those questions similar or different from one other? Is America a place for reinvention, as it seems to be for Mr. Xu's daughter? Or does it merely offer the promise that you can outrun your past, as it does for Mr. Xu? How do gender expectations shape attitudes towards marriage only for both characters? And do those gender expectations change as we move from China to the United States? How and why do people find comfort in projecting upon others the anxieties that they wish to conceal from themselves? How do feelings of guilt or shame structure people's behaviors? These thematic tensions simmer beneath the surface of a thousand years of good prayers, but they're only thrown into relief at the climax. That's the first reason we should pay attention to climaxes. They help us to clarify or complicate a key theme or themes of a story. The second reason is that climaxes enable us to re-read previous sections of a given story, with that big revelation in mind. This is why I often tell my students to read a story twice, once to find the climax, and a second time to determine how that climax is foreshadowed by earlier elements of the plot. If we only read Lee's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers once, we'd miss out on the rich, ironic nuances of earlier passages to make the story so interesting to read. For example, early on in the story, after his daughter tells him of her divorce, Mr. Shue asks her to allow him to visit to help her recover, but she refuses. He only manages to convince her to let him travel to America when he adopts a different rhetorical tactic. She finally agreed when he announced that his wish for his 75th birthday was to take a look at America. A lie it was, but the lie turned out to be a good reason. America is worth taking a look at. More than that, America makes him a new person, a rocket scientist, a good conversation list, a loving father, a happy man. If we read this passage with the climax in mind, we might ask how the lie he delivers here foreshadows the lie about his career and his own affair at the climax. We could also ask if America does in fact make him a new person. And if it does not, why he believes this lie and how this belief sheds light on his status as a deeply unreliable character. Finally, we might ask just how successful his lie is. Does his daughter truly believe the lie? Or is she simply aware of how he manages his shame and feels unable until the climax to call him out on this coping strategy? As this passage suggests, a thousand years of good prayers is obviously an unusually complicated story, but students can manage that complexity and the complexity of other challenging stories by attending to where its climax occurs. This moment of highest tension can tell us what the big ideas of a given story are. It can also encourage us to reread a story with that moment in mind, shedding new light upon its structure and content and guiding us toward new interpretations about its meaning. Happy reading, everybody.


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Hello, and welcome to this session in which we would look at the consolidated statement of cash flows. Now prior knowledge for this session is basically the statement of cash flows, how to prepare a statement of cash flows, because in this session we're not preparing a regular statement of cash flows, it is a statement of cash flows, but we're going to be preparing the consolidated. It's basically a consolidation process is occurring, now prepare the statement of cash flows. What is the statement of cash flows? It's basically a reconcile a cruel accounting to cash accounting. Remember we have two methods, we have the indirect method and we have the direct method. In the indirect method we start with net income, so basically we start with net income, then we prepare certain reconciliation to come up to cash flows from operating, then the direct method, what we do is for the direct method, we look at the income statement and we look at each line separately and we'll try to convert each line into its cash source, whether it's cash paid or cash received. That's the difference and the direct and the indirect method only applies to the operating section. Now in the U.S., we only, most companies not only, 99% of company uses the indirect method. Now if you did use the direct method, you still have to supplement with the indirect method. The first thing you need to know and I'm going to repeat this few times as we go along is consolidated statement of cash flows is prepared from the consolidated financial statement, not from the individual companies, so no elimination is necessary. Now there's like basically two types of consolidated statement of cash flows, one when the acquisition takes place, which what we learned in this recording and subsequent to the acquisition it doesn't really matter, subsequent to the acquisition there is not much really to do, we don't have to make any adjustments. Therefore at the beginning the first year we have to be aware of few adjustments. Before we proceed any further, I have a public announcement about my company farhatlectures.com. Farhat accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's going to help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses. My CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course, such as Becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam, Miles. My accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses broken down by chapter and topics. My resources consist of lectures, multiple choice questions, true-false questions, as well as exercises. Go ahead start your free trial today, no obligation, no credit card required. One we already talked about, consolidated net income is the starting point, consolidated. Also intercompany transfers, sales, purchases, receivable, payable, anything related to intercompany is already eliminated because we are dealing with the consolidated financial statement. So we are only reflecting post acquisition amount for that period. For example, any receivable, any inventory, any prepaid, any activities, accounts payable, pre acquisition will have to be removed from the computing of operating income. Access fair value amortization only reflect also post acquisition. From an investing perspective, we have to be aware that cash paid to buy the company is an investing activity. However, we only have to account for the net cash, not the full amount. So simply put, if we pay $100,000 to acquire a company and that company, they already have endure account $30,000 in cash. So the sub has 30,000. Well, our net cash outflow for investing is only 70. We paid 100, but we got 30,000. Therefore, our net cash outflow is 70,000. Also, we have to be aware about dividend. Dividend is a financing activity. How to account for dividend? Only we account for the non-controlling interest. So if we purchase 90% of a company, it means we don't own 10%. So if this company paid $1,000 in dividend, if the subsidiary paid $1,000, $900 is ours. There's nothing we need to do about. The only thing that we have to account for is the $100 of dividend that is paid to who, to the non-controlling interest. Now, the best way to illustrate this is to actually look at an example, at a comprehensive example. So let's take a look at this example, starting with the balance sheet of the parent company right here, then the balance sheet of the consolidated plus the parent company at the end of the year. So we are giving the balance sheet as of the beginning of the year of the parent company by itself before the consolidation, then the consolidated figures as of 1231 X1. We are also giving the consolidated net income as of 1231 20 X1. We are also giving the subsidiary balance sheet when we purchase the subsidiary. We are giving the book value and the book value amounted to 750 and we are giving the fair value, the fair value amounted to 860. Now we purchased 90% of this company for 774. So if we take 860 times 0.9, 860,000 times 0.9 times 0.9, we come up with 774,000. Now obviously the NCI, in case you're interested, it's 86,000 which is 10%. During the year, the parent company paid 55 in dividend and the sub paid at 25. Remember what I told you about the sub? Of that 25, 90% for the cash flow we don't account for, we only take into account 10%. So make a note of this, we're going to see this 10% which is 2,500 later. Just make a note of this, that only 10% will be listed on the statement of cash flow under the financing section. The parent company issued 514,000 in notes payable which is it's reflected here. If we see the difference between 532 minus 18,000, we issued 514,000 but we are giving this information again. Now the excess fair value over book value is obviously right here 110 and how are we going to allocate this 110? 15,000 to the land, the land is 15,000 in access, 40,000 to the equipment from 259 to 999 and the franchise went from 0 to 55. Now bear in mind that equipment and franchise are subject to depreciation and amortization and that depreciation and amortization is post acquisition. So we account for those post acquisition. So this is the balance sheet, this is the cash flow. Now before we start to prepare the statement of cash flow, we have to make certain adjustment to the operating accounts like account receivable, inventory, accounts payable. Simply put, we started with 118,000, we end up with 324, but that 324 included both parent and subsidiary. So we have to make the necessary adjustment to see what's the difference in the account post acquisition. So we're going to look at the beginning, account receivable 118, then we added the fair value of the receivable plus 145 equal to 263. Now the consolidated figure is 324. It means there was an additional 61,000 of account receivable. So the consolidated, so what we do is we compare the consolidated to the adjusted and there was an increase, a account receivable increase by 61,000. This means that's a negative cash flow for operating of 61,000 inventory. We started the inventory, the company by itself at 310. We added the inventory, but from the subsidiary 90,000, the adjusted is 400,000 for the consolidated once all said and done, we had 395. Therefore inventory, it's an asset, went up, went up 5,000, I'm sorry, I apologize, inventory went down 5,000. It means from a cash flow perspective, that's a positive cash flow perspective of 5,000. Now if you don't know this relationship, that's why you have to go back to the cash flow statement in my intermediate accounting or financial accounting to learn about this because the assumption here, as you know, that relationship when account when a current asset goes up, it's a negative cash flow. When a current asset goes down like inventory, it's a positive to cash flow. Now let's look at liabilities. We started with the year alone, the company by itself 52,000. We acquired the liability of the other company, 52 plus 15 equal to 67. We end up with 32,000 on the consolidated 67 and went down to 32. It means accounts payable went down. Why would your accounts payable went down? It means you paid it. So if your accounts payable, the change went up, it's a positive to cash flow. So liabilities, if current liabilities goes up, it's a positive cash flow. If current liabilities goes down, it's a negative cash flow. Now I need 15, 20 minutes to explain this. I assume you know what otherwise this is the relationship. So if liabilities went down, it's a negative to cash flow. It's a negative 35,000. What we did is I find the cash flow adjustment for the operating section. Now I am ready to prepare the statement of cash flows. I'm starting with consolidated net income coming from the income statement 486,500. Then I will add non-cash expenses, the 134 and the 4,000. And remember those two would reflect the additional depreciation, the additional amortization of the franchise agreement of the equipment. Then I told you account receivable net of acquisition increase in account receivable net of acquisition went up by 61. That's negative decrease of inventory net of acquisition. It's a plus 5,000. Remember decrease is positive to cash decrease of accounts payable. This is a liability. Well, if it's a decrease to accounts payable, that's a negative. Overall, if we net them out, it's plus 47. So 486,500 plus 47 will give us net cash from operating activities of 533,500. So this is the first section of the statement of cash flow, which is 486,500 plus 47,000, which is 533,500. Now let's look at the investing section. We purchased the sub. Well, we paid 774 for the sub. However, the sub had $35,000 in cash on their balance sheet. Therefore, the net cash between the two companies is only 739, because also we paid them 774. Immediately they gave us 35. The net cash outflow is net cash to use in investing 739. If we look under the financing section, we have the issuance of that, which was given to us 519, and we could also look at the balance sheet and see it. And we have dividend paid 57,500. How the dividend is 55,700? The parent paid 55,000, which is, it's accounted for 100% plus 10% of the sub-dividend. 10% of the sub-dividend is 2,500. Remember, I told you we're going to see this number again. Therefore, the total financing paid in terms of dividend is 57,500. Net cash provided by financing is 456. Now we add them up. We net operating financing and investing, increasing cash of 251. Let's see if this makes sense. If we go back to the balance sheet and we want to make sure that there was an increase of 251 in the cash position overall. So if we started with 150 minus or 401 minus 150 will give us a difference of 251, which is cash did increase by 251. And we did account for that cash of 251. What should you do now? The statement of cash flows is extremely important. Now, students find difficulty in their financial accounting and intermediate accounting about this topic. Well, advanced accounting, it's going to be more advanced. What should you do? Go to far half lectures and look at additional resources that's going to help you understand and master this topic. Good luck, study hard. 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Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here bringing another video today from Wealthy, Massachusetts in Cape Cod in the United States of America I'm here for a couple more weeks on a sort of semi semi vacation semi visiting in-laws That kind of thing and I wanted to talk today about something that I know I put out a number of videos about everything related to living in Israel and Something happened today that I think might be of interest to other folks who are traveling internationally whether you are a long time Israeli or you've just made Aliyah and you're new to the Timotris world of life in Israel and this information might be useful So every time I've traveled outside of Israel, which is not that frequently I typically do one sometimes two trips abroad per year to see family that kind of a thing I've always made sure to purchase health insurance now the insurance company or the health care HMO health maintenance organization in Hebrew Kropat Rolim that I've been with pretty much since the start of my Aliyah journey has been Maccabi and as I've said in a couple of videos on this channel I really really recommend them I think they do a terrific job and any time before I travel as soon as I have my dates for traveling I always go ahead and book a travel insurance that includes health insurance and Also for the last couple years. I've also gone for the corona 19 Add-on just in case there's any flight disruption due to the changing course of the pandemic that should be covered as well So I've never had to actually use the health care coverage while I'm in the US or anywhere for that matter except for today So I woke up a couple of days ago And I noticed that my left foot was like super sore and red and I've suffered from gout for a number of years I've had a few gout attacks. I'm not yet taking Daily medication but for those who don't know what gout is It's basically a form of arthritis that comes when you get too much uric acid building up in your body And it's super super painful So I strive for a couple of days to medicate it with you know, ibuprofen and basically avoid having to deal with all this stuff But unfortunately it just wasn't cutting it I wasn't too much pain like waking up from sleep every few hours So what I wanted to talk about in this video was just for anyone who's wondered how it actually works Accessing that health care you're paying for as a travel policy in the US. Here's my experience I can't say this is going to be everyone's experience I just want to say how it worked for me because as I understand it. This is kind of the standard methodology So once I decided that I needed to go see a doctor here My first move was to call Clal Clal is the insurance company that Maccabi works with for providing this travel coverage And it's one of the biggest companies in Israel. They do pensions. They do insurance policies So they're a very big company. They have fortunately a 24-7 moquette Moquette in Hebrew in Hebrew, of course means a call center And basically so even if it's the weekend in Israel, you don't need to worry about that They have an emergency moquette and I was able to get through to somebody With Clal in about one minute. So that was actually a really really impressive and reassuring when you're having some kind of a You know unexpected health situation a couple of thousand miles from home It's nice to get someone you get through to a human pretty quickly So after doing that the person in the moquette basically talked me through the steps The first thing that they're that they told me to do at least is to download an application called Hatslachon Shelclal So it would be a good idea if you are traveling and you have health concerns to download that Before you travel just in case you run into somewhere with bad data coverage So I installed the application and then it prompted me for what kind of assistance that I needed So there's a button there for any see you a Sorry, yeah, and he's a cookie.  I need support outside of Israel. It's in it is the applications in Hebrew is the only language So if you don't know Hebrew, you're gonna have to use your Google Translate skills It's not even in Arabic just FYI So I clicked on me onto this button and then it gave me my united health care policy details Now these were already generated and in the system So I might be actually worth a getting your united health care details before you actually leave Israel So United Health Care is the American insurance company that McCabe works with or Clal works with McCabe works with Clal and Clal works through works with United in order to provide health care coverage for traveling Israelis in Israel so once I clicked on this I got my Policy my digital policy up on the screen and that's basically the first thing that you're going to need you're going to need a policy number With United and then you're gonna have to find a health care facility Near wherever you are in the USA that takes United health care insurance So the first step was that now one little trick that I recommend doing because we're Vacationing in the Cape Cod which has spotty internet I screenshot it that policy just so that if the data dropped I would have that on my phone I recommend Doing the same thing because you you never know when you're gonna lose data or whatever So that's the first thing you need to do and then you need to find a united place that takes United So even though we're you know somewhat rural where we're holidaying in the US It actually wasn't difficult to find a clinic that did walk-in appointments You know my health care situation was pretty low level You know gout is technically urgent care, but it's not you know a serious emergency for the most part as I understand it So I had a pretty seamless visit to a health care facility here Located just a few kilometers outside of well fleece Sorry outside of Orleans, which is also on Cape Cod And I was in and out in about one hour now just a couple how the experience went when I checked in with the receptionist You did need to take all my details and this is where having any English Documentation is going to be a lot quicker in other words if you have a driving license issued with English characters The Israeli stuff might be a problem in some places like your tail. That's a hoot So that's just one sort of pro tip if you will is if you have one It's very very recommended to carry some kind of proof of ID that will be accepted and which is in English So that the folks can understand it here So that was the first thing I had to do and Yeah, that was pretty much it and then I was basically checked in to their system and within 20 minutes I saw a doctor who you know took one look at my foot and was like, okay, this is gout. Here's your Prenda zone So that was the first part I have to look up a United Health Care facility They do have a lookup thing on the internet So you can put in your zip code in the US or your location and you can find all the providers who are close to you So after I did that they rung in my prescription to CVS. Now, I'm not originally from the USA So this was something I didn't know about People watching this video might be from America and you know how the system works But they basically called it into a specific CVS And then all I did was I went up and picked up my prescription now something else to point out is that My Prenda zone cost four dollars and we asked the pharmacist what the usual price was for however much Prenda zone I was prescribed and he said it was like 20 dollars. So even though it's only a travel policy You are getting cheaper Prescriptions if you require them and you're also getting cheaper visits It did say on the united health care card that there would be a 50 dollar deductible or also called I think a copay Um, I'm not sure if they're the same thing But basically you have to pay 50 bucks even with the coverage In the end the receptionist was able to put through my my macabre policy Through their system and she didn't send us a bill I look a bit dumb after making this video if you get a bill for like 2000 bucks But I really I really don't think so. She said it was approved and there was no payment requested or required So that was really good as well So basically I would say today's experience My only prior knowledge of health care in the u.s. Is that unless you have the right coverage It can be astronomically expensive and very very bureaucratic and complicated I have to say you know being with macabre for years. This was a really really fluid experience Between the research and process and speaking to the moquette, etc It took me maybe one hour of planning to find a place to get treated And uh, yeah, I got the medication for four bucks and my gout. Uh, my gout attack is already uh on the men's So, yeah, um, definitely something personally, you know, I I am an anxious person But I always do worry every time I travel outside of israel What happens if something goes wrong god forbid to my health and I require health care And uh based on today's experience, it was really really good really impressive again My recommendations based on what I did if you're with macabre and therefore you take out insurance with clal And therefore, uh, you end up with united it's worth doing two things if you're really worried before you travel number one is downloading the Hadz lechon shall clal their um their uh outside of israel emergency Assistance application before leaving israel just in case you don't have much data while you're there or while you're here And the second thing is just looking up the uh facilities in your area to take united health care as an insurance You'll find urgent care clinics a regular appointment clinics Doctors practices, etc really scams the scams the gannet hope that video is useful If you do want to get more videos about everything connected to living in israel I do have a youtube playlist called living in israel that just contains videos on this topic So i'll put a link to that in the description. I hope this was useful I hope no one leaving israel requires medical care But if you do always do a macabre Uh, this may be one experience, but it was definitely a lot better than I expected Thanks for watching and if you'd like to get more videos from me, please feel free to subscribe to this youtube channel