Looking back, my time as an intern and the lessons learned during that year set a standard for the rest of my life and laid a foundation that I have been able to build upon in all my endeavors. Without a doubt, the way I live my life today can be attributed to that year.
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The Teen Mania internship program was my first experience right after high school. I had a lot of passion and energy, but lacked direction. The internship gave me a year to discover what God’s plan for my life was! On the summer experience with Teen Mania I had really been broken and my heart was [...]
I can still remember all the different emotions and memories that rushed through my mind on the day that I graduated from the Honor Academy. It felt like it was just the day before that I had arrived; a girl full of insecurities eagerly waiting to see what this next year would bring. It’s amazing [...]
Through my time with Teen Mania’s Honor Academy, I have learned so many things that I can take with me for the rest of my life.
I have learned leadership training through teachings, classes, retreats, and through work.
I am now able to form a plan for my life; instead of just guessing at what I want, [...]
Have you ever played the “I wonder what my life would be like if…” game?
Well, “I wonder what my life would be like if I did not go to the Honor Academy” and I can’t even imagine where I would be. God used the Honor Academy to transform my life. The little insecure kid I [...]
Prior to hearing and obeying the Lord’s prompting to head to the Honor Academy in 1998, I was a twenty-one year-old struggling to believe God had plans for my life. After a year of education at a junior college and not having a sense of purpose, I took a year off to work full-time at [...]
The first thing that I tell people about Teen Mania is that it is the second best decision I have made in my life. The first, of course, was accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Years later, not only do I carry the training and principles deep in my heart that I learned [...]
When I arrived on campus at the Honor Academy in August 2005, I knew that my life would never be the same. As an intern I was challenged like never before. Corporate exercise at 5 am, leadership classes, working in a call center, and Life Transforming Events played a crucial role in my spiritual development. [...]
It has been over thirteen years since I first became an intern, and not a day goes by that I don’t think back or draw from a valued lesson or experience from that time. While being a part of Teen Mania’s Honor Academy Program, God shaped me and established core values as well as leadership [...]
How can I possibly communicate the tremendous impact my three years at the Honor Academy had on my life? I look back on those years as heaven on earth; not to say I wasn’t challenged, stretched, broken, tested, and tried. Rather, I see how the Lord used the environment of the HA to make my [...]