Spring 2024 President’s message
My late and dear friend Don Perkins ministered for many years in the Seventh-day Adventist school system, both as business manager and secondary principal. Thus, he was very knowledgeable of the rigors, for families and school alike, of the financial demands. I well remember his incisive comment, not original with him, of tuition challenges for the former, “The financial costs are not expenses but rather investments.”
How true!
In fact, investments not only for this life but also in the life to come. In other words — eternal ones.
May we ever see the well-spent dollars for our children in that context!
Compliment the above sentiment with this thoughtful and insightful illustrative incident: Just in the past few days I fell into an unplanned dialogue with a Christian friend who sits on a board of a Seventh-day Adventist secondary school. His observation was a needed reminder: “Bill, we must not lose sight of our mission.” How true!
We are not in business to compete academically with highly acclaimed prep institutions nor on the basketball court with public schools who are enamored with vying for state championships. We exist to prepare young children and teens “for the joy of service in this world and for the world to come.” Education, pg. 13
Again, praise God for what He has given in the gift of Christian education, especially in times like these. May we continue to be appreciative of its benefits and faithful to its purposes.
Thank you for your support.
