It was picture day for our soon-to be-graduates last week.
While I was not present for the pictures, in my mind’s eye I can see them
posing for the camera. Bright, eager students who have travelled for almost 9
or 10 years down the pathway of learning and the road of faith. Looking like
adults in some respects, and yet still not quite done with childhood in every
way. This photo day is often one of the first prompts that makes us realize
that there is a transition coming at the end of the school year.
We’ve been busy for that decade as parents and a school
working toward a future that we don’t fully know. At birth, did the parents of
our current graduates have any idea of the nature of the world their children
would call home in 2018? Did they know the joys and challenges that awaited
them, the unique nature of their children, or the ways in which they would need
the Lord’s help along the journey to graduation? Likely not, but I trust that
the gift or Christian education in their lives for part of that journey has
been a strong voice of patterning God’s truth into their lives. I trust the same will be true for those
entering JK/SK this fall!
Whether you and your family are nearly ending or just
beginning your time at LCES, I invite you spend just a few minutes with our
graduate profile (linked here). These are some of the larger objectives we
value and work toward in a multi-year way, believing that that every day counts
in the lives of our students.
Cardus, a Canadian “think tank dedicated to renewal of North
American social architecture” follows the impact of Christian Education with
great interest. They just published a document on the religious lives of Young
Adults in North America. This is the landscape of our graduates and the world
they will find themselves in increasingly each year. I encourage you to take a look here.
SJ
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