Father / Teen Adventure Instructors Bio

FTA 1 and 2: Rick Kuhlman | FTA 3: Todd Shulda

Rick Kuhlman : FTA 1 (26 June-3 July 2010) and FTA 2 (3-10 July 2010)

Spring Canyon is excited to welcome Rick Kuhlman back as an instructor for FTA 2010! Here's some more about Rick:

Colonel Rick Kuhlman spent 30 years in the Air Force, both active duty and reserve serving in security forces. He also owned his own business for the past 20 years. He has been involved in Officers’ Christian Fellowship since 1976. He has spent the last 27 years in lay youth ministry working with high school and college aged men and women.

Presently he leads the University of Tennessee Air Force ROTC OCF as well as a weekly fraternity Bible Study and several high school studies. He serves an advisor to his church’s senior high fellowship. His passion is discipling and mentoring young men, teaching them about being men of God. He also desires to connect fathers and their high school aged children and working at high adventure youth camps.

He led the OCF Father / Teen Adventure since 2004 in Buena Vista and has attended the Father Teen Adventure under Tom Hemmingway during the years of 1995 and 1996. He is an elder in his church and serves on the Board of Directors for the Cross Greek Ministries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Rick has received training in the Robert Lewis Program of Adventures for Life and incorporates this exciting curriculum into his FTA teaching sessions.

Rick has been married to Beverley for over 30 years. They have one son Rick III, and a daughter Katie. The family resides in Knoxville, Tennessee. You may contact Rick at bighooah(at)aol.com or 865-250-5479.

In Rick's words,

"My first trip to Spring Canyon for the Father Teen was in the summer of 1995 when I took my own son to this adventure camp. It was then led by Tom Hemingway, a retired Marine officer with a true passion for God and military fathers who had been absent from the home due to Military Mission Requirements. I sincerely enjoyed my time with my son at this event and took my 'protege' with me for the 1996 season. It was not that physically demanding and it did not take anyone out of the event because of some physical challenge.

I realized then as I realize now, that not just military fathers need to spend exclusive time with their sons but all Dads and sons need this experience. Many Dads feel awkward towards their sons and sons sometimes feel the same way. It was my feeling that we should create an atmosphere where fathers and sons can bond or re-bond in a place that would foster their relationship and remove the awkwardness. In 2003 I sold my business and retired from the Air Force Reserve. I felt that God was leading me to lead adventure camps like this full time. Officers Christian Fellowship gave me the opportunity to lead the 2004 Father Teen adventure. It was open to Fathers and Sons only during this season. I developed my own curriculum for this trip based on the life of David. In 2005 we decided to have one week with Fathers and Sons and Fathers and Daughters and a follow on week with Fathers and Sons only. The first week we used the 2004 curriculum (stories of David) with some modifications, the second week we used much of the Robert Lewis curriculum from Christ in the Tetons which I had attended earlier in the summer of 2005.

Now we will view 4 of Robert Lewis sessions from Men''s fraternity: the Strategic Father, the Four Faces of Manhood, Two Adams-Two Manhood's, and defining Manhood. The last session we will have a manhood ceremony where the father will give a blessing to their son in front of the rest of the group.

Each morning we will have devotions that would be lead by a father-teen team."

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Rev. Todd Shulda FTA 3 (10-17 July 2010)

Rev. Todd Shulda is passionate about serving Pastors, building strong families and pouring his life into students to become spiritually maturing adults. As the President of Journey Alongside Ministries, Todd seeks to impact men, families, churches, and organizations by strengthening men to live out the gospel in their homes, communities and work places. Over the past 20 years Todd has served in establishing a strong foundation of Student and Family Ministries in two church plants. Additionally, he has also served as a part of a large pastoral staff in Littleton, Colorado and had the opportunity to walk with students and families in Littleton in the aftermath of the “Columbine Shootings”. Todd partners with, A Chosen Generation, a ministry focused on weaving the lives of young and old generations together in relationship through the local church. He is an adjunct faculty member for A Chosen Generation and The Father-Daughter Summit, a ministry of The National Center for Fathering. Todd has been married to Leana for 18 years and he is the proud father to two wonderful children. Their family lives in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

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