By: Jeremy case, head of school

I hope you found last night’s parent equipping from Dr. Tedd Tripp to be both encouraging and challenging as we steward our role as parents according to God’s plan to bring about transformation in our children’s hearts and continually surrender to His plan to raise up His covenant children.

God’s plan for His people and His covenant children is essential to the strength, beauty, and purpose of the Perimeter School covenant community as we seek to live out our calling as parents together. We must be intentional in our desire to belong as a covenant community that strives to educate and disciple our students to live according to God’s Word by embracing the truth of the gospel. We believe that together we can better educate, equip, and encourage our children to glorify and enjoy God. The body of Christ shares this privilege and responsibility of raising up the next generation.  

“He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;”
(Psalm 78:5-7)

Being More Requires More of Us

This covenant calling centers on the family but comes in the context of the corporate body of God’s covenant people. Our philosophy of education is rooted in the belief that the shared, covenantal roles of the home, school, and church working together creates the best atmosphere for nurturing children. This belief is what makes us more than just a Christian school – and being more requires more of each of us.

To faithfully live out our covenant calling together, we must individually affirm both the commitment it requires but also the blessing it creates. Together as we educate and disciple our children, let us proclaim the “glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done” so that they should set their hope in Him. Our hope in God’s promise and provision is young men and women who live covenantally in the world, with both confidence and compassion to confront and claim the culture for the kingdom.

If our homes, church, and school are to be what Psalm 78 says, we must steward well all of the privileges and responsibilities of a covenant, Christian education.

Each year there will be a danger that we’ll become too tired of the commitment it requires or too apathetic to the blessing it produces.

Reaffirming Our Commitment

As we enter our re-enrollment season, let’s spend some time prayerfully reaffirming our desire to live out this commitment together. Will you join me in praying that God will continue to deepen and strengthen our covenant family as we each reaffirm our commitment to rely upon God to educate and disciple our children together?

I pray it’s with joyful anticipation that you begin the re-enrollment process - an important opportunity to refocus our attention on the vital mission we’re engaged in together and ready our hearts for the year ahead.

Each year we intentionally ask our families to recommit to Perimeter School’s covenantal philosophy and practice of Christian education. May we all be blessed and refreshed as we pause to prayerfully refocus and ready ourselves for another year of educating and discipling our children covenantally.    

It is worthy of our labor and our prayers.