VOCA: The LifeBridge Workshop is a refocusing course that walks business professionals, students, or anyone through a practical process of hearing God’s VOCA [Latin for “voice”] within a community setting. Each participant writes a personalized LIFE PLAN that helps them overcome challenges and live their calling every day.
Over the past 20 years, Bridge Ministries, Inc. (in Michigan) has coached thousands of people through a powerful process known as LifeBridge.
Now, through VOCA, we are making LifeBridge available around the world through online coaching communities. We believe that your calling is powerful and, once fully grasped and activated, will deeply impact your church, community, and culture for the Kingdom of God!
Our mission over the next 10 years is to bring VOCA to one million Christians–in every state in the USA and around the world–so that they, and those in their ministries, might help fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ!
VOCA is not a mystical process. It IS about allowing God’s Spirit and God’s Word — especially the pattern of the call of Abraham (Genesis 12 and 15), of Moses (Exodus 3-4), and of Jesus’ disciples (Matthew 4) — to intersect the unique person God has designed you to be.
People in today’s world are facing an epidemic of confusion regarding their life-calling. They battle overload — burnout — lack of margin — conflict — marital problems — moral struggles.
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LifeBridge emerged from Dr. John Studebaker’s intense struggles with burnout 25 years ago. By discovering God’s unique call on his life, he was able to overcome his deep burnout and begin to walk in the joy and energy provided by this call. Then, in his Ph.D. studies (Trinity International University), John was able to develop a biblical methodology for helping others find and fulfill their unique calling. What resulted is a high-impact tool for helping Christian men and women to reach their full potential in their life, faith, and vocation.
John is a Lecturer in Christian Theology at Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he teaches a variety of courses, including Theology of Calling, Vocation, and Work. He is also a certified Life Coach (in the Tom Patterson LifePlanning process) and Executive Director of the BMI Oasis (a Christian retreat center in Michigan).
VOCA: THE LIFEBRIDGE WORKSHOP IS BRIDGE MINISTRIES, INC.’S PROPRIETARY PROCESS THAT COMBINES TEACHING VIDEOS, A STUDY GUIDE, A CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNITY AND PARTNERSHIP/ACCOUNTABILITY WITH GROUP AND PERSONAL COACHING.
IT IS DIVIDED INTO 3 INTERRELATED SECTIONS:
Your PURPOSE allows you to re-orient each activity in life toward your “upward call” in Christ. You’ll write a Purpose Statement, which combines your identity in Christ with your origin and destiny. You’ll then apply your Purpose Statement to your personal life, family life, vocational life, and church/community involvement.
Your MISSION is distinct from, but energized by, your Purpose. You will write a personal Mission Statement based on your unique God-given design–your Heart Motivations, Spiritual Gifts, Talents, and Passions. VOCA coaching will enable you to make this statement clear and actionable.
VISION allows you to “hear God’s voice” as you create a focused, practical plan for your entire life. You’ll “looking ahead” at the next 12 months, ask God to expand your vision, and organize your “visions” into step-by-step plans for activation your mission (with appropriate boundaries) on a daily basis.
You will work with a partner (during and after the workshop) to activate your plan, to re-assess your plan on a regular basis, and to encourage one another to continue in this life-giving journey!
We call it LifeBridge because we are imparting a model, centered on hearing God’s voice, that creates a high quality of life. Participants are then re-energized to serve Christ as the unique “bridge” for the gospel he has designed them to be!
1The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.”
2“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing” (Genesis 12:1-2).
God did not only have a unique, specific call for Abraham. He has one for you as well. Ministerial burnout, vocational confusion, relational conflict, and even family struggles are almost always resolved through a fresh, specific, practical hearing and activation of God’s call.
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