In faith for the future of a child

When we started our training for this year as a faculty, I offered some remarks on vision. I basically noted a sort of contrast: 1) how blessed we were at Cambridge Christian by the Lord’s activity in the lives of our students and the life of our school, and 2) how challenging the broader culture is when it comes to Christian values and even Christian schooling, as evidenced by the staggering array of Christian schools which have closed or substantially shrunk over the last five years in Tampa.

I don’t see any triumph in that reality for Cambridge Christian. The challenge is real for helping the families of our city see the true value of an academically excellent, athletically and artistically well-rounded, and Christ-centered education for their children.

As a faculty, we must offer our best while committing, by God’s grace, to get better. We commit educationally, intellectually, spiritually, relationally, emotionally and every other way to be channels of God’s greatest gifts for our students, your children. There is no doubt the larger culture offers challenge to our growing children and young adults.

In faith, believing that God loves our children even more than we love them, we commit our best for the future of a child. We do it again and again, student by student, child by child, day by day. There is no grand plan in the hands of man by which our culture will be turned around and our children’s world of the future will be made safe and welcoming for them. But there is a proper pursuit for us as their parents and teachers.

We commit to prepare them as thinkers and communicators. We commit to grow them as leaders. In partnership with parents, we commit to encourage the growth of strong and good character in our students. By faith, seeking the love and power of the Lord, we commit to cultivate in our students a Christ-centered worldview which makes sense of a very troubling and chaotic world while also giving hope that there is a Truth and a Truth-teller above and beyond the swirling currents of our culture.

As home and school, parent and teacher, let’s commit together for God’s best for the future of the children and students we love so dearly.