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A Thankful Heart

Here is a lovely message to brighten your day from Charlotte Choy in Year 1.

Gaye Jones

Year 1 Teacher

Connecting with CARDS

In Term 3, just before we were told to go into stage 4 lockdown, students of homeroom 10F came up with an idea of making personalised cards as a mode of connecting with their buddies in Year 2. The idea was to encourage our young students to stay strong and persevere with trusting in God at all times. Once the Year 2 students received their cards as a snail mail, Miss Moss, their homeroom teacher emailed this message to 10F.

“I just wanted to say thank you to you and 10F for the cards, the kids loved receiving these and it brought big smiles to their faces!”

Here is what a couple of students of 10F would like to say regarding their card making experience. 

A few weeks ago, our Year 10 class wanted to bring some joy into our Year 2 buddies’ homes by making them all a card each. We wanted to make each card special for each student so we used lots of different resources and materials such as glitters, coloured papers, and even stickers. 10F spent a lot of time trying to make them the best we could to bring a smile to the faces of our buddies. Once we made them, we wrote a personalised letter on the inside and some also included a Bible verse to remind them to always trust in God. We stamped them and sent them off to their homes. 

Kiriaki Katsigiannis 

Making cards for class 2M was a fun and special experience for all of us. It was a wonderful way to end the physical school term. And it brought joy to us as a homeroom when we saw that they had received the cards and that they were full of smiles. Travis Lam 

May I also take this opportunity to thank all staff members who shared their resources like glitters, stickers, coloured papers, Bible verse stickers and many more with us. As a community we all wanted to connect with our little fellas. 

Louis Fernandes

10F Homeroom Teacher

Thankful for our Healthcare Workers

Joshua Chen and Gabriel Liu have put together a rap to help encourage and thank the healthcare workers who are working hard to keep the community safe at this time.

WELLBEING  

Find rest oh my soul, in God alone

I recently shared my testimony to encourage others in our staff morning devotions. I'd like to share it with you here also, that you may be encouraged to find rest in god alone.

The last five years of my life has not been a very easy time. TheLord has blessed me in my work during this time, but family life has been devastating to me. It has left me in deep and dark waters many times.  The Lord has been after something in me through this. He has been looking for something, waiting with such patience that I find hard to believe. He has taken me through many lonely times, even through the valley of the shadow of death, where I feared for my life. And through all of these times He has been trying to get at something in me.

A year ago, I broke my leg quite badly and this left me with a painful time, where I was in a most vulnerable and lonely place. I knew that the Lord was trying to get to me. Trying reach me, but somehow, I did not find what He was looking for me to see. Somehow my sight was on the wrong thing. I still did not learn.

Then came COVID Mark I. And I knew that the Lord has brought this to me again. In His mercy He was still trying to get at that thing in me. 

And I still did not learn. I wanted to learn, I just didn’t know how.

And then came COVID Mark II, and I cried out to the Lord! And He heard me, and has changed my perspective.

You see, Christ learned obedience through the things that he suffered. 

Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered - Hebrews 5:8. 

The first time that I saw that, I was blown away - He learned obedience! What? I thought He was obedient! He was preoccupied with fully drinking the cup that the Father had for him. I love that! He was able to fully trust the Father even to the point of death. He chose ONLY obedience to the Father’s will.

The Lord was wanting me to trust Him with every area of my life. To not hold back. To fully trust him every day. To count ALL things lost, ALL THINGS, that I might know Him. To me this is to be completely reliant on the Lord for all things. And in this, He is causing me to flourish, even in this COVID time. He is causing me to find my life in Him, to be leaning into Him.

My life is not to be in a holding pattern at this time. Not waiting for COVID to get better, or for me life circumstances to get better, or for my family to be fixed up. He wants me to flourish at this time. To bear HIS fruit at this time. We are not to be ones who draw back, but draw into Him at this time. 

The Lord has taken the weight of my perspective, so that it no longer holds me. He has set my sight on Him, rather than on my circumstances. He has drawn my eyes to Him, my way of seeing things has changed. He has taken the weight of what I think is important, and lifted it as He lifted my eyes to Him.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Hebrews 12:1-2

Find rest oh my soul in God Alone.

I want to encourage you. Press into the Lord at this time. Do not live in a holding pattern, full of fear and anxiety. For He has not given us the spirit of fear, but of Love, Power and a sound mind. Let us throw off the weight of our perspective, and look to Him that we may flourish in Him.

Rolland Hall 

Head of Digital Technologies