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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
“WE WILL STAND AMAZED TO SEE THE TOPSIDE OF THE TAPESTRY AND HOW GOD BEAUTIFULLY EMBROIDERED EACH CIRCUMSTANCE INTO A PATTERN FOR OUR GOOD AND HIS GLORY.” - JONI EARECKSON TADA
from the editor
This year’s theme, Leave Your Mark, challenges each student, faculty and staff member, the administration and the Board of Directors to make a difference. The adage, “leave things better than you found them”, reminds us of our duty as educators and even more so, as Kingdom builders, to fight each day to make the lives of every young person a little bit better. That happens in so many remarkable ways: observing Mrs. Wolfe as she lovingly, patiently and creatively teaches a student who is blind; catching a glimpse of a teacher putting his arm around a student during the faculty/student basketball game; hearing about administrators who stock their offices full of snacks for students who are hungry and will take them out shopping if they need clothes.
But it is not just the faculty leaving their mark. I recently heard a story about a student and his mom offering to give a ride home to a couple other guys. The mom offered to stop for dinner at Chick fil-A. One of the young men commented that he had never eaten there before, and he just couldn’t believe that they would treat him to dinner. And of course, watching our students serve during serve days, will no doubt change anyone’s negative opinion about teenagers. Students who pray boldly in front of a room full of homeless people, a student who told his teacher he wasn’t ready to leave because there were still four more families he needed to help translate for so they could receive their food boxes, young ladies who humbly and lovingly paint fingernails for a group of elderly women. Even in the elementary, our children want to make a difference. A young boy in fourth grade asked if his classmates could gather around a student who was struggling, held out his hands and prayed for him.
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