- Relationships between colleagues allow teachers and staff members to trust each other, knowing with confidence that everyone on the school team is working toward the best purpose of the school ministry.
- Relationships between teachers and parents build a strong partnership that surrounds students with a caring support base that supports amazing growth (while diminishing the likelihood of "shenanigans"). Such relationships also cover a multitude of misunderstandings, as parents hold to the positive understandings of those relationships even when students come home saying some really odd things at times.
- Relationships between students and teachers allow children to thrive as they come to realize teachers truly care for them, and respond positively to instruction and guidance in such a warm, caring environment. They come to want to live up to the expectations and encouragement of the caring adults they spend so much time with.
- Relationships between school families and church families welcome people into a closer engagement with the living body of Christ. Many families at our schools have no active church life (at least when they first join us), but through their encounters with the people of the churches who support us they encounter welcome, acceptance, and warmth that invites them in closer to our Lord and Savior.
- And the utmost relationship we focus upon is the one we all have with our God. Our Heavenly Father, our Savior Jesus, and the Spirit of God moving within us brings all of us into a level of relationship that is unthinkable to most of the world. We are truly one family in Christ, and our school exemplifies that in so many ways!
Let these reminders of the high significance of relationships color your words and actions today and the days ahead. Put more effort into relationship building than anything else you do, including focusing on your own relationship with your Lord. Blessings!