Dear St. Abraham’s Community,
It is a great honor to take the helm of this school. It’s a community that the Lord God Almighty has clearly blessed and preserved now for 12 years. I can’t wait to learn who you are, every family, every story.
Your teachers, myself and the whole team are excited about this upcoming school year. It’s time to jump back into community life again, and what has made St. Abraham’s such a wonderful place … building the kingdom together, shoulder to shoulder and in person! You can feel the excitement and relief of our broader community as well as folks are seeing people again and realizing afresh the gift of actually being able to see/enjoy that smile behind the mask.
The logic and rhetoric school program on board will be enviable. It will be robust, intimate, fun and your young person’s soul will be incredibly blessed. More details soon.
With every newsletter I will be contributing a piece entitled, “From the Headmaster’s Desk.” In it I will include an encouraging quote on classical Christian education or shaping souls and a word from myself to build you up as parents. Parenting is tough. “Baskets of fruit”, someone said, “are heavy.” Your children are your fruit and they are a glorious and weighty gift. I want to encourage and inspire you in this critical mission that we have.
For this week:
“Children are not a distraction from more important work, they are the most important work.”
C.S. Lewis
I read this recently: “Seven hours. Five days a week. Where is your child? Schools are in the business of shaping children. Shaping what they know. Shaping what they think. Shaping what they believe. Shaping what they learn to love. Shaping who your child will become. Where you send your child to school makes all the difference.” To what end?
This one: Seeing and loving this world as being created and sustained by a loving, living, personal and triune God. And having found God’s imprint in all things, we are to turn towards the goal of all education, which is doxological.
St. Abraham’s Community,
--Our school will only be as great as our faithfulness and dependence upon the Lord Jesus Christ--
The future is bright.
Amor vincit omnia. Non nobis Domine, Mr. Alexander