Dear MCA Family,
It is with great pleasure that I take a moment to thank you for all the great moments that the Lord has given me over the years at MCA, though not always called MCA. The most recent of these moments was participating in the playground project. Personally it was a great day of fellowship, especially with so many men, and working in the presence of God and His provision.
Presently, as most of you know, I am the new, yet older, pastor of Light of the World Church. I regard this as a great privilege and honor. But Christian education has far from fled from my thoughts and I hope it never does. In fact, the reason I am writing you is to invite you into a way in which I believe we can develop MCA into more of what God intends. I have also shared this with the School Board and they are excited to see how this approach evolves into a God honoring way to grow the school.
It is really very simple and uncomplicated. We, as parents, believe we are participating in God’s work by sending our children to Christian school. This is a conviction that God has planted deep in our hearts. If this were not so, why are we investing so much of our time and money? We are making a mission statement of what is valuable in our lives. My suggestion and approach is to be more intentional in stating what our joint mission with God is all about: “Go and make disciples”.
We, the MCA staff, PAC, and School Board, have adopted a mindset of promoting our mission in every program and activity that we present. We will intentionally invite “potential partners” to “come and see that the Lord is good” and that He is doing good things at MCA. In other words, we are going to “showcase” MCA by putting our best foot forward in the name of the Lord.
An example of this is the PBL night that is scheduled for Thursday, October 29th. We are asking parents and students to invite people (grandparents, neighbors, friends, etc.) to this event with the thought that at some time they might become partners in the ministry and support MCA, not only prayerfully but financially, if God moves on their heart to do so. I believe we have done this in the past but we have been remiss by not intentionally sharing our mission, God’s mission, at MCA. This is not going to be a hard sell, but simply being intentional and honest about why we are doing what we are doing.
We invite you into this mindset. My wife, Joan, and I have a clear testimony of what God has done for us and the blessing it has been for our three children to have attended MCA.
Serving Christ,
Paul Sontag, Headmaster
