The school theme for the 2020-2021 school year is God’s Got This and our school verse from Proverbs 3:5-6 reads “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
This theme was chosen due to its applicability both today and for the future. Here and now, our school and students face the challenges of COVID-19, the turmoil surrounding an election, and a country working through racial division. Students are also looking to the future, to the next grade level, to high school, and starting to explore career/calling.
An essential part of our mission is to ensure our students are rooted in God’s Word and prepared for lifelong service. This means we want our students to wrestle with the problems our community faces, but also rely on Christ and His guidance at all times. We want our students to be active members of their communities and find solutions to unrest, political division, and racial brokenness, but to do so with their faith as the foundation of their actions and while pointing others to Christ with their actions.
This is accomplished both in the daily interactions and relationships teachers build with students and by providing them real-world learning opportunities. Teaching becomes impactful only if they are able to take what they learn and address problems in their own lives and the lives of others. On our own, we make mistakes and fall short, but thankfully our theme reminds us that God’s Got This.
Our challenge to our students this year is to remember that God’s Got This. God has a plan for each individual student here. He has a plan for their family. He knows the best path for our school. In an ever-changing, uncertain, divided world, we can both rest and act on the knowledge that God’s Got This.
