This system creates a holistic approach to the adolescent faith journey by blurring the lines between traditional youth group and youth education. Taking the identity needs of adolescents seriously, the Faith Inkubators system attempts to harness the power of small group ministries and build a network of care as the context for all learning. Small groups learn, serve, play and create supplements to lessons as they bond together as living cells in the body of Christ. The role of a Faith Inkubator Guide is to provide the context of love for the content of the Gospel. Guides do not serve primarily as teacher, but as care giver, advocate, mentor and processor of the materials that a Pastor or Presenter teaches.
Guides are more concerned with faith formation than information.
They concentrate more on modeling the love of God than on talking about it. They focus on filling in the blanks in lives more than filling in the blanks in workbooks. Presenters are not the disciplinarians. They are not responsible for processing all of the material with all of the students. They are not responsible for the heavy-duty pastoral care needs that one out of six adolescents bring to class each week.