by 12tasks | Nov 4, 2024 | Shel Arensen
It’s good to see 12 Tasks spreading! We told a friend in Texas how we had done 12 Tasks with our kids. He then read the book Jack Taylor and I wrote – 12 Tasks, Creating a Rite of Passage – and passed on the concept to his son, an Air Force officer. Our...
by 12tasks | May 17, 2022 | Shel Arensen
Our book, 12 Tasks: Creating a Rite of Passage, is beginning to have an impact on families. Here’s a testimonial from our friend Gaylene DeMars from Fresno, California. “I picked up one of your 12 tasks books and shared it with a family at church that has an...
by 12tasks | May 5, 2022 | Shel Arensen
One task we gave to each of our four children was to climb Mt Kenya up to Point Lenana, the third highest peak at 16,355 feet above sea level. It didn’t require any technical climbing skills, but it was a tremendous challenge to reach the top. We struggled up a...
by 12tasks | Dec 20, 2021 | Shel Arensen
At the end of November 2021 my wife Kym and I were invited to a 12 Tasks celebration in Nairobi. Abigail Johnson had just completed 12 challenges during her 12th year and it was now her 13th birthday. Abigail’s parents, Lew and Brandy Johnson, had invited their...
by 12tasks | Nov 9, 2021 | Shel Arensen
My parents didn’t give me 12 Tasks. I had to forge my own way into adulthood when I was growing up in Kenya in the 1960s. Sports became my rite of passage, my quest. I grew up big and tall. In my grade school class photos, I stand head and shoulders over the other...
