Dr. Ty Gooch

What is Turning Point Academy Prep Year? It is the culmination of what you and Dr. Hutz Hertzberg, Chief Education Officer, have been working on to prepare students for life, to be leaders, to have impact, and if they go on to college, to be ready to be influencers when they get there.

What is Turning Point Academy Prep Year? It is the culmination of what you and Dr. Hutz Hertzberg, Chief Education Officer, have been working on to prepare students for life, to be leaders, to have impact, and if they go on to college, to be ready to be influencers when they get there.

That's right. Training of the Mind, whole life transformation. The program will include mentors that come in like yourself to help students understand economics from a biblical worldview perspective. And how to read and process through the great writings of Western civilization in a way that has a biblical infusion of truth at the foundation of them.

That's right. Training of the Mind, whole life transformation. The program will include mentors that come in like yourself to help students understand economics from a biblical worldview perspective. And how to read and process through the great writings of Western civilization in a way that has a biblical infusion of truth at the foundation of them.

Yeah, but that would be a short-sighted statement of what the facilities are like. They're incredible facilities. The accommodations are off the charts. There's going to be a retreat center, conference center-like experience for the students, the size of the dorms, the excellence of the dorms.

Yeah, but that would be a short-sighted statement of what the facilities are like. They're incredible facilities. The accommodations are off the charts. There's going to be a retreat center, conference center-like experience for the students, the size of the dorms, the excellence of the dorms.

But more than just the experience on the outside, it's the way that their hearts and lives will be transformed.

But more than just the experience on the outside, it's the way that their hearts and lives will be transformed.

There'll be a week long modular training format where from a classical education perspective, helping students learn with rhetoric, helping students learn in a collegial style of learning where they don't just listen from lecture content, but they actually learn to engage and to think and then. with virtue and wisdom, how to apply the truths that they're learning.

There'll be a week long modular training format where from a classical education perspective, helping students learn with rhetoric, helping students learn in a collegial style of learning where they don't just listen from lecture content, but they actually learn to engage and to think and then. with virtue and wisdom, how to apply the truths that they're learning.

I've been involved in Christian ministry for the better part of the last 25 years, prior to which I did play football at Northwestern University, and I see you have a Big Ten representation back there.

I've been involved in Christian ministry for the better part of the last 25 years, prior to which I did play football at Northwestern University, and I see you have a Big Ten representation back there.

Okay, fair enough, fair enough. So that experience, though, it was one where I learned myself to learn to engage with what it meant to stand for my faith. So I went from there and went and got a Master's of Divinity, and not a PhD, but a doctorate in ministry, which is relevant for this program because of the application of truth to life.

Okay, fair enough, fair enough. So that experience, though, it was one where I learned myself to learn to engage with what it meant to stand for my faith. So I went from there and went and got a Master's of Divinity, and not a PhD, but a doctorate in ministry, which is relevant for this program because of the application of truth to life.

And so as a part of this last 25 years of serving in ministry, mostly pastoral, I've also been in Christian education.

And so as a part of this last 25 years of serving in ministry, mostly pastoral, I've also been in Christian education.

just focused on teaching seniors in high school biblical worldview at a couple of different christian schools at a bible college a senior seminar capstone classroom program context where it's so evident students need to learn to finish well so they can go be influencers right away young leaders already leading in many ways now being prepared not just to go and sort of flail in the context of the ideologies that are being pumped out by some institutions

just focused on teaching seniors in high school biblical worldview at a couple of different christian schools at a bible college a senior seminar capstone classroom program context where it's so evident students need to learn to finish well so they can go be influencers right away young leaders already leading in many ways now being prepared not just to go and sort of flail in the context of the ideologies that are being pumped out by some institutions

but to go into flourish and what it means to be girded up in their faith and to influence others toward the ways of Christ.

but to go into flourish and what it means to be girded up in their faith and to influence others toward the ways of Christ.