Monday, April 25, 2016

Christian Education Week

Here we are!  This week we at Covenant are on display!
This is always a special week as we invite the 'pillars' of our community to come through and spend some time with us.  Our gallery of art and student work has been set up through the building.  Our spring musical production is running through final rehearsals. Our pastors are coming to visit on Wednesday the 20th, and our long time and faithful supporters (grandparents and senior friends) will spend the morning on Friday with us.
Finally, our parent open house is scheduled for 2:00-3:00 on Friday afternoon (the 22nd).  You have likely come by to see your kids in action before, but this is a time where we fling open the doors and welcome you in to seeing a classroom in action.  While this week is not a typical week, and there is a lot of extra hustle and bustle, the things we are doing are routine:
Living for Jesus, Learning for Life, Serving with Gladness.... this is commonplace at Covenant, and we are deliberate about each of them.  The character of our students and teachers character and how we live is important.  We seek Jesus faithfully day after day in even our simple interactions.  You will see life... real life throughout our hallways.  Students engaged not just in learning about the real world, but engaging in it.  Service learning comes alive in our chapel activities, but also internally as we serve one another, and as we reach out to the world.
In our final work of the week, you will see how a Christian school interprets a common folk tale, and how God speaks through simple actions of even a bickering community..... because at the end of the day, that is what we are:  Not a perfect Christian school community, but one that struggles with its own brokenness.  God reminds us who we are, how to relate, and that we are loved... and that He longs for us to seek him and live in unity:  "May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. John 17:23b  Now that is living as children of light!
Come see us this week, as we plug in to God's power.

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