We have a heart to transform the city of Phoenix for Christ so we are starting in three areas: the city of government, the school systems, and the business community. We have begun to make some inroads with the city government. See here, here, here, and here. We have also gotten involved with the school system. See here, and here.
Because of the building we have been leasing for the past 15 years or so has sold, we have had to look for another space to worship. So we approached our local K-8 school and they have been very supportive and enthusiastic about us using their space on Sundays. Currently, the school is going through a substantial make over. They are turning it back into a neighborhood school, rather than having kids bused in from all over the district.
As the principal is describing the changes to me she asked me to be on an Advisory Committee with other parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders to help develop the school's new identity and mission going forward. We just had our initial meeting last week, (there is about 10 of us)and everyone was excited that we were going to using the school to worship and about how involved in the community we want to be. In fact, one of the teachers wants to introduce us (the Advisory Committee, not our church) to rest of the faculty of the school at one of their upcoming meetings. The result is that I will be able to share the passion we as a church have for the community and the school to the entire staff!
Who knows how God is going to use us as His instruments to effect change in our local K-8 school, but He has put us in the position to do that very thing.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Moving the Ball Down the Field - Yet Another Way We May Impact the Schools
Posted by Morningside Evangelical Presbyterian Church at 5:44 AM
Labels: examples of missional, school system
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