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Proságo: Medeba's Christian Leadership Program

A 10-month college level program that develops Christian character and leadership competence.

A 10-month Christian leadership development program
designed to challenge, develop and empower young leaders.

10/09/2026

What a week - with four beautiful days of rock climbing at Rattlesnake Point! Lots of learning to trust one another and God amidst the adventure. Happy Thanksgiving!

09/24/2026

Bobby repping the newest trend in climbing footwear from Climb Cowboy™. Featuring crisp edges and unparalleled ankle support he proved they are up to the send by cleaning 'Redonkulous' 5.10.

09/22/2026

Climb on! Great day at the cliff for our first off-site rock climbing experience. God makes amazing things! Looking forward to our first student led journey in just over a week - climbing at Rattlesnake Point.

09/16/2026

Last week we had our first journey of the year. Over a three day canoe trip we had lots of time to connect as a community and spend solo time with God. Looking forward to the year ahead with this crew!

09/04/2026

Some impressive towers and falls for our first attempts at Milk Crate Madness this week! Great to see the teamwork coming together as this crew learns how to belay on new activities.

09/02/2026

From blindfolds to high ropes and giant swings we're having a great start to our 33rd year of Proságo. It's been a fun first week with an amazing group of young leaders - we're looking forward to lots of learning and adventures to come!

08/05/2026

Throwback blog
Ethan Thiessen
Assistant Leader Blog

On the winter camping trip, I asked the group a question as a leadership thought in our final PLAID meeting. Should we show or hide our emotions as a leader? A couple of answers came up such as it depends on what emotion we show and we need to have wisdom in how we reveal our emotions.
Positive emotions such as joy and excitement are emotions that a leader can show plenty of without overdoing it, but anger and frustration we should be careful with how much we show. This was something I realized on the first day of our trip. I was frustrated with some of the planning aspects of the trip and I let it affect how I led. I let my frustration show and I didn’t act like my usual self, which resulted in my followers feeding off of my emotions and not being in a great mood either. This made for a bit of a tough first day. The second day I decided that I needed to just stop dwelling on the things I couldn’t control and changed my attitude towards the trip. This created a better environment for my followers and everyone else followed suit in having a better attitude.

Revealing emotions can be a very delicate thing sometimes. How we show our emotions can really affect the people around us and being too emotional can be detrimental to leadership. Throughout planning for winter camping, I projected my frustration about our progress towards my followers. Unintentionally, I came off as harsh and rude to my followers and fellow leaders by letting my emotions control me. This not only put my followers in an awkward position but also created a disconnect between the leaders. What I should have done instead was express my frustration to the right people (the other leaders) in a way that communicated what I was feeling but wasn’t harsh.

This was definitely a hard concept to realize and I know I still have a lot of growth to do, but I hope in the future I can be more aware of how my emotions affect the people around me.

08/03/2026

Throwback Blog:
Florida Everglades, Assistant Leader Blog - Michael

Hey gamers, Michael here. Florida was a crazy ride and that didn’t stop until after the trip was done. Going into the trip, our other assistant became unable to take part in the Florida portion of the trip, and our once two sided canoe trip merged into one. I was now the only assistant for both of our leaders. Wow, that was hard.

I have a background in camp leadership, serving as a cabin leader, program coordinator, supervisor and facilities. All of these positions have lent themselves to favoring those who take the initiative to DO. Being an assistant in the crazy world of the Everglades trip was difficult, because though there was a lot of room to DO, there was also a very high need for support, which is not my strong suit. I needed to learn to lean into the idea of assisting, both in an emotional capacity and in the work. I started off the trip very DO focussed and much less assisting focused than I should have been. I was robbing my leaders of opportunities as I was doing too much and overstepping, and I was actually asked by our directors to step back. This was a humbling experience. For the first time I actually was doing too much and was subsequently not doing my job. Once I stepped back, it gave me a whole new perspective. I saw my leaders drowning, and I as the assistant was nowhere to be seen. Reworking my approach, I learned to be there for THEM. Taking a back seat and letting them lead and me assist was really enlightening. I saw the impact that being and having support can have on a leadership team; I saw my leaders do amazing things now that I wasn’t in the way; we were able to come together and delegate amongst ourselves and our crew.

Coming out of the experience I have two main lessons. I learned the importance of assistance and how being that for someone can make or break their leading experience and I learned that sometimes there is such a thing as too much DO. Finding balance between doing yourself and delegating is paramount to being a good leader and making sure to not overstep when you don’t need to is key to a healthy and efficient team dynamic. If I could do the trip again I would, and I wouldn’t change a thing. I learned so much and had a blast being an assistant. I look forward to when I can put my lessons in to play next!

08/01/2026

Throwback Blog
Assistant leader blog - Brin Aston

Something I learned while leading is that procrastination is not key.
I’m a big procrastinator and that’s always been something I’ve struggled with however this week I’ve realized how much it affects me (and my co-leaders) planning process.
I led along side Heather this week. If there was one thing I could change about this week it would be how I prepared for it. I would constantly tell myself “I’m too tired” or “I’m just not in the right mental space” rather than sitting myself down and getting the work done. Overall this impacted not only the synergy but productivity of the partnership with my co-leader. I learned that always giving myself a pass to choose not to do something will never allow me to grow. As well in doing so, I let down my co-leader and put a lot of responsibility on them which is ultimately unfair. As a successful leader you have to be willing to get the work done even if it’s not something that particularly draws your attention. Sometimes as a leader you have to do hard things, that could be making a hard decision, relinquishing your rights, or doing things when you don’t particularly feel like doing them. I think by practicing self discipline and not letting yourself procrastinate you are only honouring your future self. By sitting yourself down and getting things done you practicing grit and stick-to-itiveness.
Unfortunately giving up procrastination is not something I’ve mastered yet, however it is something I would like to really work towards doing.
So there you have it!
Brin

07/30/2026

Throwback Blog: Assistant Leader Blog - Amanda
Hiking Journey
April 6 - 12, 2024

Wow, Where do I start! The learning and lessons from my experience assistant leading the hiking journey are still unfolding. It was a crazy, wild and a very stretching experience but altogether incredibly fun and I am so thankful for the experience.
The first lesson that really jumps out to me from this trip would be to expect the unexpected while leading. Plans will change and shift and that is OKAY! I encountered that every single day of this trip and it kept me on my toes. From an unforeseen amount of rain, to colder weather than expected, to one of our group members leaving the trail, my adaptability was tested and trusting in God was so crucial during the week. Learning to expect the unexpected was not what I expected to take away from this trip haha. I kind of had it set in my mind that because I jumped into being an assistant leader last minute the time actually on the trail would be tough but fairly smooth, but boy was I sweetly surprised by what we had to tackle together as a group. There were moments where I thought that I could not keep going and wondering why leading was such a trial, but I recalled a comment someone had said to me during a leading week prior to spring break where things kept changing and they had said, “well that’s leadership for you!” At the moment I just laughed a bit at it but as I found myself leading through change after change on the trail I had to remind myself that leadership is not perfect and is messy but that is the beauty of it. It has its unexpected moments and they will come no matter how well you have prepared. Believe it or not you can not control the weather and even when you have back up plans for when things go sideways, they will often feel unexpected in the moment and tough to navigate. Expecting the unexpected is not an excuse to not plan ahead but to plan with adaptability in mind and a whole lot of trust in God.

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