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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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I 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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I 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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The 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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I 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.
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My world got turned upside down when I was around 30 and I went back to school to change direction. I knew that I could not be with my daughter driving truck and running equipment, so I did a double major in English and History. I thought, I would like to teach university level students because they pay to be there and will listen. I slowly learned from watching my peers that this was not so. I enrolled my daughter in a Christian school and did not understand back then that not all Christian schools were created equally. I substituted for the Grade 1 teacher and also for the janitor and loved it and continued to volunteer there until I began working as a TA and my teacher/mentor had me teach Social Studies to the grade 6/7 course. They are graduating this year and know my story, as I know theirs. I feel so blessed as to have been an Independent School subject restricted teacher and been a positive part of my student’s journey’s at school and in life. There are no more priceless articles.