Choosing the right school has become one of the most strategic decisions a parent can make. Education is not value neutral and every institution will work to shape the worldview of an impressionable child. It demands a quality choice.
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STOCKTON —— Sudden death might not sound like a good thing, unless you were a Lady Falcon soccer player on Saturday afternoon.
That’s when Forest Lake Christian (18-7-1) downed LeGrand (14-3-4) in a sudden-death shootout to win the Sac-Joaquin Section Division VI championship by a 5-4 score at Lincoln High School in Stockton.
FLC sophomore Lia Hegarty and senior Morghan Pomeroy proved to be the lethal combination for the Falcons, who earned their second section championship in three years.
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Although I hear many words used to describe the times in which we are living, and those words are delievered with a wide range of emotions (fear and anger top the list), I constantly encourage myself with the Word of God. Dr. Francis Schaeffer astutely noted that Christians suffer from viewing the world in “bits and pieces instead of totals.” When we as Christians lose sight of the totals we gradually lose our ability to discern correctly. We can enter a downward spiral in which global problems seem so overwhelming that even most Christians numbly retreat from responsibility into the comfort zone of “self”. Unfortunately, by doing so we shrink in our ability to become men and women of God.
As our children notice the significant adults in their lives shirking responsibility for the world around them, largely because of their anger and fear over loss of control, they become…
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David Wickstrom, a 5th grader at Forest Lake Christian School, chose to be a blacksmith for a class project which was to construct a small western town where the children got to run the shops. They were supposed to decorate the shop and dress in proper attire. David asked if the Empire Mine would contribute some items to “sell” in his blacksmith shop.
