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Take some time to think about your life. You are going to write answers to the questions below and use
them to create a life map. When were you born? How many people lived in your home? When did you
go to school? Where? What about church? Did you move to a different community while you were
growing up? Any health issues or deaths in your family? Siblings born? Married? Significant friendships?
Relationships? Adults who influenced you? Any employment? What about times when you made unwise
decisions or got into trouble? When were the most difficult times of your life? What were different
things/events that were important to you at different life stages? When have you been proud of a
decision you made? What have you regretted? When did your salvation occur? How did you end up at
IBCZ? Take some time to write a list in the space below or on a separate piece of paper. You can make a
list like a timeline, starting with your birth and continuing to today:

1.4 Let’s Practice

Let’s look at the list you made and put it into a visual form. We will take these people,
places and events and make them into a life map. You will spend some time drawing
these events. Review your list and think of how you can creatively show these on your
map. You can make your streets have valleys and mountains or wrong turns with
streets that go nowhere. Think creatively about how to represent the life experiences
you have had. On the next page an example from a former IBCZ student from several
years ago. You may know this student and how his life map has continued.

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