Dear parents and friends of CCS,
I pray this first day of May finds you well and walking in the grace of the LORD. It’s always amazing to me the speed with which the second semester seems to move, especially after Spring Break.
It has been an eventful semester in many ways, and our admin, students and faculty are focused on finishing the 2024-25 school year well. This is especially true for our Seniors as they prepare to walk across the stage at graduation and begin the next chapter of their lives with Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in their hearts and on their lips.
They walk into a chaotic and uncertain world, the fruit of a dizzying advance in technology and an equally dizzying vacating of Christian Biblical morals by American culture.
The cultural and technological changes of the last 5 to 7 years are well documented, so I will not elaborate on that here.
My larger point is that CCS continues to work hard day after day, supporting the training and education that you bring your children everyday in your homes and churches, and in particular working to develop the capacity for discernment and wise action that these young people will need in the days to come.
Clearly parenting in the 21st century can be an exhausting endeavor, and carries with it a significant amount of peer pressure to conform to societal and cultural norms, even within the church, that do not really align with scriptural truth.
This is not a positive trend, but it is one that can be reversed. I believe that we need a recovery of the wise application of scriptural truth to everyday life: what we read, how we recreate, how we deal with conflict, how we treat other people – basically how we live our lives before the Lord as a member of the Kingdom of God.
Recently I saw the results of a survey stating that 66% of Americans claim to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and that relationship is very important to them. This is a confusing statistic, given the many other surveys that indicate large shifts in self-identified Christians’ behaviors and with the issues of gender, conflict resolution, and many other areas of life in the 21st century.
In the face of these things, what are we to do?
Again, I believe we need to return to the careful study of scripture and the discipling of young believers in the form of walking with them through scripture, guided by the Holy Spirit, and inculcating into their minds and hearts a thoroughly biblical worldview.
This is precisely what Community Christian School was designed to do – it is the central service and benefit that we provide to our community.
Of course, there are many other distinctives that CCS is privileged to offer, and many of those were recognized by our visiting Accreditation Team. Their analysis of our program will be published later this month, but I can tell you that we were very gratified with the commendations we received.
So as we move rapidly toward the end of this school year and as we plan for the summer, let's agree together to redouble our efforts to be in the word of God, learning what it means to be and live like Jesus, and learning to listen to the voice of God through his word, his Holy Spirit and His Creation.
And let us pray together that our graduates will continue to do this throughout their whole lives, and particularly as they make important decisions as to vocation, spouses, and the other large decisions that face them in the coming years.
Most of all, may God be maximally glorified in our lives as we seek to love and follow Him at every step with our whole hearts, minds, souls and strength.
For CCS and the Kingdom,
Tom