A People in Community
- Monday, September 15, 2008
We have been going through a series in church this month about connection-- with God and with one another. Yesterday, our associate pastor mentioned a recent survey's conclusion that I found very interesting: America is the most isolated, individualistic, and lonely culture that has ever existed.
In my heart, I know that this survey's findings are true. What made us unique as a society - what was once our greatest strength - has now become our greatest weakness. Yet as a school community, I daily experience the antithesis to this isolated and lonely existence. The core of our school's mission, to partner with Christian parents, works in stark constrast to the cultural pre-disposition towards individualistic behavior. Our school would not function apart from community, and I am so blessed to be a part of something so revolutionary.
On Saturday night, we celebrated our school's 35th Anniversary, but the focus of the evening was clearly a celebration of who we are as a school: a body of believers that can come together and partner with one another in a spirit of joy. I've never felt more comfortable or at home in a room of 350 people!
Sandy Shedden came into my office this morning and informed me that the clean up of the gym was completed by 8 pm, just 1 hour following the conclusion of the event. What a picture of what a community of people can accomplish!
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