Christian Education

Jan and I TRY and have kids over to eat one night a week. We don't always succeed in meeting that goal, but that is what we shoot for. We know that if Luke or Matt had gone off to school some place, we would have loved for somebody to give them a good home cooked meal and a couch to kick back on sometime. We tell the kids that they were invited the first time, but after that they need to come ANY time they want to if they need to "chill". It sounds nice for the kids, but guess who REALLY gets blessed.......yep, Miss Jan and I. Our lives have been blessed SO many times and ways these past seven years from having students in our home! We miss the ones who graduate and move on! We have received MUCH more than we have given.

But I said that to say something we may not say enough because we take it for granted. Isn't Christian education wonderful!?! I just appreciate all the board members, administrators, professors, coaches, cafeteria workers, dorm parents, security folks, staff employees, and EVERYBODY that has ANY thing to do with minsistering to our kids who attend Christian Universities! ALL the students who attend any Christian University are some of the most blessed people in the world!
And those of us who get to work with and minister to these students are blessed even MORE! Our Chrisitian Universities are producing christian ministers for every profession you can imagine.....so they can be light and salt to a world that desperately needs to know about a Savior. Is there a more important work than that? Are these schools perfect? Not any more than any of us as individuals are perfect. All of them have presidents and leaders that I firmly believe God put there for that purpose, and I have faith that they are leading in the way HE would have them to lead. I feel the same way about all the professors and Deans, and without going thru the whole list again........EVERYBODY!

So, in this thanksgiving season, I just want to be thankful for ALL those who serve in Christian education......no matter what their role is. I believe these are some of the greatest servants among us. We also should be very thankful for those who went before us in the field of Christian education. We are standing in the shadow of some trees we did not plant. We have a TREMENDOUS legacy to uphold. We can only get that kind of strength and courage from above. I pray we continue to look to him for our guidance and strength. Thank you to all of you currently working in Christian education, and thank you to all of the special ones who have gone on to the other side ahead of us. Let's all be faithful in prayer to the Father on behalf of ministering to young people thru education. May he continue to bless our work!