Servant Working

Our Bible focus this month is from Isaiah 26:3:

I will keep my mind on You Lord:

For You will keep me in perfect peace

This month in our chapel, our Kindergarten students got us thinking again of ways our hands, minds and hearts can serve other.   

For two weeks, our students have been bringing in baby items.

In chapel last week, we gathered all the items together.

The manger was overflowing with our student and parent generosity.

The items were delivered to Youth for Christ - Young Mom's Program. They were very appreciative of the gifts of love given to the program.  

We also celebrated our students who won awards for their Remembrance Day contributions with their essays, poems and posters. 

Perfect Peace

Today in chapel we talked about peace. 

We were happy to welcome Pastor Tabitha VandenEnden.

She asked us first to think about what peace meant. 

She then said that Isaiah says a lot about this idea but never uses the word peace. 

Instead, he uses the word Shalom.

Shalom mean everything is right between you and me. 

We desire to have shalom with our friends, with creation, with our family and with God. 

When we think of the nativity scene, we think of a silent, holy peace filled night.

Mary, Joseph, the shepherd, the quiet sheep and the peaceful, sleeping baby are present in that perfect nativity scene. 

But, what if a tiger, a lion, a jaguar and a bear were added?

It certainly wouldn't have been a peace filled night!

Yet, Isaiah gives a picture of God's perfect peace, when the wolf and the lamb will live together, the leopard will lie with the goat and the infant will play near the cobra's den. (from Isaiah 11:6-8)

                                                  "Peaceable Kingdom" - Edward Hicks

Pastor VandenEnden challenged us to be the candles of peace this advent season as we continue 

to work for God's perfect peace. 

Servant Working

This month our throughline is Servant Working.

Prairie Association of Christian Schools describes Servant-workers:

Being “salt and light” means our faith needs to be expressed in our work. We all can help to heal brokenness and bring joy. Sometimes this will be a response to an injustice, and sometimes it will be doing good things just for the sake of doing them. Sometimes these things will be easy for us to do and sometimes they will really push us out of our comfort zone- and both are great experiences!

We are always looking for ways to live out our faith in big ways and small, in our classrooms, hallways and into our community. 

This week in our chapel, our Kindergarten students got us thinking again of ways our hands, minds and hearts can serve other.   They are leading a baby items collection this month for new moms who need some help and love. 

They have asked all the students to work at some odd jobs to raise some money to buy some baby items. Things they are looking for are things like diapers, wipes, baby cereal, formula, new bottles etc. 

Would you like to contribute as well? You can bring your items to school for our baby items drive. 

Our Bible focus this month is from Isaiah 26:3:

I will keep my mind on You Lord:

For You will keep me in perfect peace. 

And while we love seeing all of our students perform, we just love watching 

our Kinders sing for us!

We then watched this video on ways to serve with glory for ourselves. 

Humble serving is what God desires of us:

Where will God lead you to serve this advent season?