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Share your story of how you came to be where you are in Christian education. Have you shared this story with your students?
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Deleted User06/02/2022 at 15:34I am constantly sharing my story with my students with their families how God has led me to where I am at that moment. I was raised in a Christian home I went to a Christian school from preschool through high school. After high school I went to the junior college to get my certificate in early childhood. After my first semester I was asked to step in at the school I attended and take over for a preschool teacher who is left. I felt that God was opening a door for me. I worked at the school through the end of the year and I was asked to come back and interview for the position the following year. I was hired back that next year and I attended school until I was finished with my certificate. I stayed and taught in this Christian preschool for seven years, towards the end of my seventh year I felt that I didn’t want to teach this isn’t what God has called me to do I asked for a temporary leave of absence and I went back to school, Follow one of my other passions. While I was off for those 10 weeks and finishing up courses I was contacted by the principal from the school and church where my aunt had attended. She asked me to come in an interview and I told her no thank you I am done teaching and she encouraged me and I prayed and God open that door I ended up teaching at that school for 18 years finishing my degree in teaching kindergarten. God has moved me a few times . Each time that God has moved me he is open the door for me to teach in a Christian environment. Each one of those schools that I have taught at has strengthened me and my faith not all of them have been easy some came with major challenges but as I look back on the journey that God has put me on I see the many many blessings the children who were on the spectrum who reached back to me yesterday and said I can’t believe he is going to be going into middle school. He would’ve never made it if you did not give him a kind and caring Christian environment to grow and to be who God has created him to be, his mom sent that to me and it shows me that no matter what God places me where he wants to be and that he is already handpicked each child for me to mentor love and pass down my philosophy to them. This year is the first year that I have not been working in a Christian school my husband job moved us out of Southern California where I was born and raised to Texas, there have been some lonely days which I found myself volunteering at a school and through that God has called me once again to start teaching again. I believe God has a plan for each one of us As educators to keep passing down her story so that students see it’s not always a straight path and it’s not always easy but God has a plan and we need to have faith and trust in him.
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Deleted User06/02/2022 at 11:48I worked in public school and saw children that came to my course from a local Christian school. The confidence they had and the knowledge they possessed caused me to look at the Christian school for my own child. I enrolled him and loved it. I was asked a couple years later by administration if I would consider working for them. I left my job with the public school and began teaching at the Christian school.
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Deleted User05/31/2022 at 23:47I have spent 28 years as a public school teacher. A couple years ago I started praying about teaching in a Christian environment. It was my desire to do so, but the school that I thought I would end up had no openings. Plus, I only heard “crickets” when I prayed about it. I felt no direction from the Lord about making that move. Last year a lot happened in my daughter’s Christian school that weighed heavy on her heart. She came to the decision to leave the school she had been at for 8 years and transfer to another one for her junior-senior years of high school. She was at peace with that decision because it was made through prayer and she felt the Lord prompting her to make that move. She has done amazingly well socially, academically, and above all, spiritually. Fast forward to this upcoming school year. I have resigned from the public school system and now I will be teaching in that same new Christian school that my daughter felt called to. Moral of the story? When you step out in faith going where you feel He is leading, it can also have ripple effects on those around you. My career is taking on a new direction because my daughter was obedient to the Lord’s prompting in her own life. #amazing
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Deleted User05/31/2022 at 13:24The story from the lecture about the missionary family really resonated with me. I was in the UK shaking hands with the missionary team my family was going to join when Hurricane Florence destroyed our home in NC. This tragedy forced us to put to an end our missionary endeavors and we found ourselves in Augusta, Georgia looking for work. I found a listing for a Christian JROTC instructor. That one-hour-a-day position turned into a full-time teaching position. 3 years later I was ordained at the church and I am now a pastor. God has been good and used our lowest moment to get us to this place.
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Deleted User05/08/2022 at 20:07I chose to return to school for teacher certification when my children were in elementary school. I did my student teaching in the public school my daughter would attend middle school the next year. I didn’t like what I saw there and began applying to other schools in the area, including several Christian schools. When I took a position at a Christian school, I brought my children with me. A few years later, an experience performing in Christian community theater with teenagers led to my interest in moving up to teach high school. It’s true that when we delight in Him, God gives us the desires of our hearts — before we can even really know what they are. In hindsight, it is interesting to see how He directed my steps to bring me where I am now.