By: Stephen Ready, interim head of school

Summer is here! It has been a joy and a privilege to serve you and your family this year as your head of school. I have greatly appreciated meeting many of you and getting to know your children better. It is a wonderful community to be a part of, and I thank God I was able to experience the school from a new vantage point.

I hope that you and your family have a wonderful summer break full of time together, maybe a little learning, and of course, rest! You earned it. Actually, you were made for it. The school year is a wonderful time together, but it is also a lot of work for students, families, and those that work in the school. Our culture is full of expressions, idioms, and half-truths that would lead us to believe we need to be hyper-productive or we won’t have value. I’d encourage you to continue to live counter-culturally in the way you and the family rest after a long school year. Of course, that doesn’t mean completely checking out, but seeking ways to be renewed spiritually, emotionally, and physically. In Hebrews, we learn that in Christ, we can enter the “rest” of God. He has done what we couldn’t do for ourselves.

My prayer for your family is that the summer would be a great change of pace and a time to fully experience God’s rest.

“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.”
(Hebrews 4:9-11)

We, in the school office, will still be somewhat busy over the summer but are looking forward to the break as well. Mr. O’Dowd and I will continue to meet as we transition to his leadership by the time school begins in the fall. We have a great team and will be ready upon your return.

Thank you again for all you have done to make this year a huge success. We look forward to seeing you again in a few months!