154 | Rope Swings, Giving Thanks & Big Prayers for 2021 (Jeff Zaugg)

Dec 31, 2020

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Jeff Zaugg

Jeff and Michelle Zaugg will celebrate 15 years of marriage this year. They live in New Brighton, MN with their 3 young daughters and they are expecting their 4th baby in Spring 2021. Here's a link to the 2020 Zaugg Family Christmas Card. After 10-years of entrepreneurial non-profit ministry leadership, Jeff served as a pastor at Substance Church in the Twin Cities for the past 7 years. In Fall 2020 Jeff took the leap and went full-time fatherhood ministry. He is the founder and lead cheerleader at dadAWESOME & FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS. When he's not wrestling or playing hide and seek with his daughters, you might find Jeff out for a bike ride, making a pour over coffee, sitting by a fire with his wife or challenging some friends to a game of Spikeball.

Conversation Notes:

1:20 - dadAWESOME is on YouTube
1:50 - 4 parts of todays podcast (WHY, WHAT, WHERE and HOW)
- Why dadAWESOME
- What were some highlights of 2020?
- Where is this ministry headed in 2021?
- How can I join the movement?
2:20 - Proverbs 24:3-5 Wise people are builders. they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure. Because of their skilled leadership the hearts of people are filled with the treasures of wisdom and the pleasures of spiritual wealth. Wisdom can make anyone into a mighty warrior, and revelation-knowledge increases strength.
I want this for my daughters:
- Their hearts filled with the treasures of WISDOM
- Their hearts filled with the pleasures of SPIRITUAL WEALTH
- They are a mighty WARRIOR
- They have revelation-KNOWLEDGE
- They have increasing STRENGTH
3:40 - WHY dadAWESOME - Rope Swing Ripple Effect
3:40 - "The reason we exist is we want to see a generation of dads who are builders, who are saying with intentionality and focus with their time, with their money, with their passions. I'm going to build a family. I'm going to build towards having a heart connection with my kids. I'm going to build, in a direction that glorifies the Lord in a direction that my, my girls, or in your case maybe boys, my kids, my sons, my daughters are proud of a dad. who is building something of significance."
4:15 - Wise dads are builders - they build rope swings
4:20 - All of the POSITIVES of having a rope swing - the contagious ripple effect
6:12 - All of the NEGATIVES of missing out on experiencing a rope swing
7:06 - The Ripple Effect of Intentional Fatherhood
7:40 - dadAWESOME exists to cheerlead and resource intentional fatherhood... Dads with hearts that are connecting with their kids
7:55 - Deuteronomy 30:19 “…I have set before you LIFE and DEATH, blessings and curses. Now choose LIFE, so that you and your children may LIVE.
8:20 - The NEGATIVE - the lack of fatherhood
8:30 - FATHERLESSNESS Ripple Effect
- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18.3 million children, 1 in 4, live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in the home. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau. (2020). Living arrangements of children under 18 years old: 1960 to present. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau.)
  - POVERTY >> 4X GREATER RISK OF POVERTY
  - MOM-CHILD HEALTH > 2X GREATER RISK OF INFANT MORTALITY
  - INCARCERATION > MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON
  - TEEN PREGNANCY > 7X MORE LIKELY TO BECOME PREGNANT AS A TEEN
  - CHILD OBESITY > 2X MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER OBESITY
  - EDUCATION > 2X MORE LIKELY TO DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL
9:35 - We believe that dads connected to our Heavenly Father's heart are more intentional dads
10:05 - FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS - awaken passion and awareness to the cause of the fatherless
11:05 - We Resource & Celebrate Intentional Dads & We Ignite Passion & Action for the Fatherless... Pain Fuels Passion
11:24 - What were some dadAWESOME highlights of 2020?
11:35 - January 2020 - dadAWESOME Podcast Celebrates 2-years (25k downloads)
11:45 - March 2020 - YouTube Intentionality (3k views in 2020)
11:56 - April 2020 - Creation of dadAWESOME Foundations (93 dads joined us)
- I am LOVED
- I am INTENTIONAL
- I am FREE
- I am ENGAGED & I EJOY my kids
12:24 - August 2020 - FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS (64 dads raising $104k for the fatherless)
12:39 - October 2020 - Jeff Takes The Leap to Full-Time Fatherhood Ministry
13:00 - Where is dadAWESOME headed in 2021?
13:05 - Proverbs 24:3-5 Wise people are builders. they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure. Because of their skilled leadership the hearts of people are filled with the treasures of wisdom and the pleasures of spiritual wealth. Wisdom can make anyone into a mighty warrior, and revelation-knowledge increases strength.
13:43 - "Our prayer as a ministry is that we would be helping dads be builders, but that we would build a ministry based with skilled leadership and that we would have the treasures of wisdom and we'd have the pleasures of spiritual wealth and that there would be intelligence and insight that would lead to us equipping mighty warriors for the kingdom. Dads who are mighty warriors, raising up kids who are mighty warriors and there'd be increased strength and all these families."
14:12 - Five Goals For The Upcoming Year
14:19 - Prayer Team Grows to 150 members - monthly / daily / weekly / 2x/month (10 people praying every single day) https://bit.ly/dadawesomePRAY
14:52 - teamAWESOME Grows to 75 members (people giving financially to fuel the mission) https://dadawesome.org/give/
15:22 - dadAWESOME Podcast Multiplies 10x to 250,000 downloads https://dadawesome.org/listen/
15:41 - dadAWESOME Youtube Multiplies 100x to 300,000 views https://www.youtube.com/dadawesome
16:11 - F4F Multiplies 10x to 640 dads raising $1,000,000 for the fatherless https://dadawesome.org/f4f/
16:42 - How to Help Build dadAWESOME Together
- 16:47 - JOIN us - ride, run and listen and watch
- 17:06 - SHARE - Subscribe / Share / Review - by simply subscribing and following and sharing, the mission is advanced
- 17:30 - PRAY - the prayer team is the engine of this movement
- 17:45 - GIVE - https://dadawesome.org/give/
- 18:20 - INVITE - text 5 other dads and encourage them to check out dadAWESOME

18:50 - Jeff's Prayer - Proverbs 24:3-5 Wise people are builders. they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure. Because of their skilled leadership the hearts of people are filled with the treasures of wisdom and the pleasures of spiritual wealth. Wisdom can make anyone into a mighty warrior, and revelation-knowledge increases strength.

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