The Principal's Page
Welcome
BreakPoint makes a Great Point!
Training the Soul The Chesterton Academy
Moondust
It seems that some of the most memorable insights God shares with me are the result of my daughter asking a simple question. Earlier this month we were looking up at the moon and talking about the why the full moon SHINES in the night sky. My answer was something routine about the stars being made of gas and the moon reflects that light but does not make its own and so on. How the moon, when it is in line with the sun reflects the sun’s light but that the
Thank you for your prayers and support
Sep 9 2008 - 5:45pm
Dear ECS family,
I wish I could thank you each personally for the rich kindness and love you have shown to us as Elise and I adjust to this new season of life. We have been so deeply blessed by the outpouring prayer, encouragement, and support! A special thanks to Melody, Kim, Thelma, Josh, and Chuck who jumped in to meet the day-to-day needs of the school and whose efforts were crucial to this school year opening so smoothly.
The state of Washington has officially determined Nelson’s death from the Hantavirus is line-of-duty related. As most are concerned but too polite to ask, yes, we will be able to keep our home, and continue to minister at ECS.
The certainty that we will see Nelson again one day and that our Lord is sovereign and loving is our strength. Please continue to lift up Nelson’s parents, his brother Paul, and the EPD officers in your prayers even as you remember Elise and me.
Location
Contact
Summer Scrip Hours
Aug 2 2008 - 10:25pm
Looking for Scrip? Summer sales hours are 9-10 AM on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Forgot to get Scrip and really need to shop? Call Chris at 929-4120.
Location
Contact
A Decent, Ordinary Egg
In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis offers readers timeless insights on what it looks like, and what it costs believers, to be transformed. The goal of Christianity, this change, sounds easy enough until God has improved the surface faults that embarrass us and moves in to change our self-serving human nature, asking us to surrender all of our wishes and fears fully to Christ.
They're watching
In chapel, mid-high students watched a NOOMA video where speaker Rob Bell gave this challenge: “Things don’t always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don’t even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That’s the way life is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts?
Love
In John 15 we find Christ in the eleventh hour of his life. Like Gandalf at the Bridge of Kaza-Doom in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, with similar intensity, knowing the dangers those under his guidance would soon be facing without him, Christ is commanding, pleading, begging, ordering, the disciples to LOVE. After this conversation about love Christ gives them a flood of promises about the peace and joy to follow the painful moments ahead, prays, and is shortly thereafter arrested.
Corrections on Daily Record Article
I would like to extend my thanks to the Daily Record and reporter Don Gronning for his article about ECS in Tuesday’s paper. In the interest of not spreading misinformation, please note the following corrections. ECS has sixty-eight students enrolled not sixty, all of our full-time staff have earned Washington State teaching certificates, but some of our part time staff have not, and not only Kindergarten, but all classes are free for the fourth child enrolled in ECS in a given school year; however, books and fees must still be paid.
What difference does a worldview make?
On February 9th and 19th Washington State voters will have an opportunity to participate in the Democratic and Republican caucus respectively. Too often, the election season smothers sound reasoning not only with emotion but also with self-deception, hype, lies, and spin. As a starting place for weighing each candidate’s stand on important issues, I recommend The Revenge of Conscience by J.
Be transformed into a Living Sacrifice
The transformation of our minds referred to in Romans 12:1-2 is a process that results in the formation of the same attitude as was in Christ-willingness to become bread and wine.
got hope? Instilling Lives with Hope and Integrity
One of my favorite quotations is “What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.”
New Year
Dear ECS family,
Yesterday morning teachers met to dedicate the New Year to the Lord
and commit ourselves to seek to bring Him glory as individuals and a
school. This year’s theme expresses how we bring glory to God:
