THE JUBILEE SCHOOL Newsletter June 2022
TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG Parting Words from Kellen Meyer, Dean of Students Almost thirteen months ago I moved back to Moscow after completing a seven-year pilgrimage to California. It was a time of significant transition as I went from training future airline pilots to starting seminary studies. I didn’t have a job lined up, but that wasn’t for lack of applications. I eager to work anywhere while I completed my new course of study, but the multitude of fruitless phone calls and rejected resumes was somewhat discouraging. It is so much easier to intuit God’s providential hand in past events than it is to trust Him for the future. Meanwhile, the Jubilee School had moved from the “Blue House” into the Eastside Marketplace Mall and was growing and multiplying like a zucchini plant on Miracle Grow. It went from a few dozen students in the Fall of 2020, to nearly 100 in the Spring of 2021. Heather, always one for planting more Christian Classical schools in the fertile soil of post-covid-zoom-vacci-mask-culture, needed someone to help her with the day-to-day at Jubilee. And that someone turned out to be me. 2 Chronicles 16:9 says, “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.” Looking back now, I cannot imagine a more fruitful year than the one I have had as the Dean of Students at Jubilee. And to think I might have missed it if I accepted a job somewhere else! This last year God has shown me His faithfulness in meeting Jubilee’s financial needs. I have seen Him working through the teachers and staff to declare His works to the next generation, not to mention the growth that I have experienced as I partnered with parents in the discipline of their children at school. Oh, and the joyful students! They have blessed me with both the light, laughing joy fueled by their thankfulness and energy, and their deep and weighty joy when they turned from sin and sought restoration. But God has not only shown himself strong on my behalf—His power and blessing have been resting heavily upon the school as well, and continue to do so. We are so grateful. Grateful for the volunteer time and resources which the Jubilee parents have donated to their school; grateful for our first graduating class and all the new students (over 130 students and climbing!); grateful for the new facilities that opened up next door so that we can expand. But, as any parent of teenagers knows, rapid growth comes with rampant clumsiness and leg pains. Many trials and adventures loom just a head. And while it is still impossible to know exactly what God will do, we eagerly wait to see how He will show Himself strong. We already have one of the first answers to prayer for next year with Kent Young coming on as the new Headmaster. Heather and I tag teamed the leadership this last year, but neither one of us has had the time to do it all. Why someone with Kent’s educational background and expertise would intentionally move to Moscow to lead a small startup Christian school is inexplicable, except as a clear answer to prayer.