Ministry

Who do you make better?

As a school, across the year, we’ve been exploring the theme Pursuing Excellence with God.

Over the past ten weeks, we’ve been diving into the Pursuing Inner Excellence with God – knowing that no matter how great things are on the outside, without getting better on the inside, external excellence is short-lived, as we don’t have the inner life to sustain outer success.

But in the end, inner excellence is never about only ourselves. It is about others, about how we serve them, about the difference we make in in their lives.

There are many ways of serving others. Sometimes when we serve others, we make a difference in just a moment in time. 

Other times when we serve, we might make a difference to a someone's day, or if we do something significant, to their week.

But there are ways to serve that can make a difference to someone’s year, and to someone’s entire life.

A school is based around giving people what they need to succeed for not just university, but for someone’s working life. 

Unfortunately, many schools see this as something that is for eight hours a day, five days a week, for the next 40-50 years.

At Endeavour, we hope for something more. 

We want to serve our students, and each other as staff, and you as families, in a way that makes a difference for more than eight hours a day.

But how can we possibly do that? 

How can we serve students and families in such a way that could have that impact?

It comes from who we are, and who we are created to be. It comes from knowing that God has created us with excellence and calls us to bring his excellence to the world. 

It comes with knowing there is excellence within us but knowing that we also need to grow that excellence. And it comes with knowing that this is not about only us, that this excellence is about serving others, and making them better.

So we as a school seek to help students discover who they are, that together with families, we invest in more than just academic excellence – but in excellence in values, in service, in caring for others, and in helping students be the kind of people who aren’t just becoming better themselves, but living a life that makes others better.

God bless you today.

Chris Mann

College Pastor 

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 

(Philippians 2:3-4)