One of the things we do at WEM is create opportunities for ministries that focus on youth to have experiences that can change their lives. These experiences are created through rock climbing and asking questions from the experience that relate to their spiritual lives. The topic of trust came up in this one day rock climbing trip. How do you trust God when bad things happen? One student on this trip had been let down in a previous rock climbing experience and it hurt him and damaged that trust. Another student had a good friend that believed in Christ and sacrificed a lot to follow Him that had died in a drowning. How does rock climbing relate to this?

A student has to trust the rope set up and the person belaying the climber [keeping them from falling]. When a student goes through this experience 30 feet of the ground it tends to affect them more than just sitting around a circle and talking about trust. On the field or in this case on a rock they hit those emotions and a heightened mental thought process and they are opened up to so much more transformation. God works in incredible ways when we are focused on learning from Him and growing in Him!