Jan 28, 2021
dadAWESOME
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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. 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.
Celebrating Three Years of dadAWESOME:
- Episode #1 = "We Trust God"
- 3:20 - Throw Confetti and please add the hashtag #dadawesome https://dadawesome.org/confetti/
- 4:30 - Throw Feedback https://dadawesome.org/feedback/
- 5:38 - Throw Some Powerful Prayers https://dadawesome.org/pray/
- 6:10 - 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power."
Conversation Notes:
- Full Interview with Jeff Zaugg on the Bethel University Alumni Podcast (Apple Podcast & Spotify)
- 10:09 - Time hop of post-college career path
- 10:27 - YouthWorks, pastoring, kids pastoring, dadAWESOME
- 12:34 - Describing the work of dadAWESOME and Fathers for the Fatherless
- 13:17 - Malachi 4:6 - He will turn the hearts of the fathers toward their children and the hearts of children to their fathers.
- 13:41 - The promise that fuels the passion in dadAWESOME - 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.
- 16:40 - The LIFE framework: I am Loved. I am Intentional. I am Free. I am Engaged.
- 17:28 - Fathers for the Fatherless events for Summer 2021
- 19:05 - "I think every entrepreneur, they find a pain point and you try to meet a need to correct that pain in some way you want to alleviate a pain."
- 19:49 - Publishing Episode 101 right after his dad went to heaven.
- 20:07 - Pain fuels passion.
- 21:16 - Being planted in the local church was a huge part of God seeding the vision for DA.
- 22:13 - Runs and Rides lead to Resources which lead to Retreats.
- 25:43 - How has God met you in the wilderness seasons? Expecting every 3-5 yrs a major life crisis will come my way.
- 26:28 - Wilderness Fellowship
- 26:50 - Finding brotherhood
- 27:24 - Freedom heart work
- 29:54 - Imagine Beautiful - marriage ministry
- 32:27 - "If you want to get shiny eyes for the current season, if you want to be at a spot, living in your passion, help other people around you get shiny eyes"
Conversation Links:
- Make a Donation to dadAWESOME
- Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team