July is here!

I really can't believe that July of 2009 is here.  This is a big month for some of us at LCCA.  Bryan Geach and Sandy Wagner are getting married on the 17th which I will miss because I leave to take my son to Medical School on the 15th.

Yes, it's a month for change and a year for change as well.  The Staff and Faculty of LCCA are preparing for the battle ahead.  The battle for your children's hearts and minds and time and focus and purpose and sense of value.  There are a lot of good schools out there.  How many of them do you think are gearing up for those aspects of your children's lives?  Think about it.

A Fork in the Road

Well, this week should be a week of great change.  Walls will stand and rooms will come into being standing ready to do the Lord's work.  Please join me in praying that families will have the strength, courage and understanding to commit their children and resources to preparing the next generation to usher in the second coming of Christ.  If you don't think it takes courage to take that stand then I have some people you need to talk to.  Also, if you are still one of those Country Club Christians who has convinced yourself that it doesn't matter where your child is educated, than you need to talk to me.  You, know?  Better yet, watch the news.

Friday's Muse

The sun is setting through my living room window above a tree where a Red-Shouldered Hawk lives and is scattering diamonds of light through the rain covered leaves and branches.  This is the world that I grew up in.  One of woods, creatures and the hue that the elements continuously brush over the landscape.  I love that world and still step into it as often as I'm able.  In fact, that is a large part of my love for riding my motorcycle everyday of my life.  I don't transit past the world.  I experience it.

And yet, I'm aware that even one generation back, my own children, adults now for the most part, have grown up in a very different world despite my efforts to ground them to the understanding of nature as I was taught.  They love to camp, kayak, swim, snorkel, hike and explore, but to them, it is a diversion; something you GO do.  It was never their life like it was to my rural/suburban generation.

I'm thinking about this because I have spent a great deal of time this week researching, cataloging and mapping out strategies to get the most out of technology that didn't even exist when I was in school.  No.  College.  And worse than that, the purpose of all of this is to find the most efficient way to become a Projects Based Learning School.  As I peruse the unit ideas for the projects, it strikes me that a lot of them are based on the idea of getting kids to explore, understand, and hopefully, eventually protect our fragile planet.  It seems ironic that we are now using the same technology that has turned an entire generation of Americans into screen gazing, button pushing, cyber-interactive, loners to get them interested in the very woods, streams, lakes and fields that they ignored on the way to school with iBuds plugged into PSP's struggling against demonic foes on a 3.5 inch screen with their thumbs.

Am I getting old or what?

Such is the life of an educator.  What ever it takes.  Whatever...

A New Face

Here it is.  Your looking at the new face of Life Changing Christian Academy.  We have hoped, dreamed, prayed and sweated for what we feel the Lord has called us to do and it didn't turn out like any of us could have forseen, but it is an exciting time to finally see it come to fruition.

Yes.  It's just walls and floors but it will come alive with the creativity of the teachers and students that will walk its halls and the projects of purpose that will be launched from here will change Lake County and beyond.  If you would like to be a part of that change, join us on the journey.  It's been a wild ride so far.

Prayer's

If you are reading this, you are a person who has already taken an interest in our school that is unusual. In our hectic, fast paced world of information overload, we hardly ever go looking for more unless it is very important to us.
As I sit here, basking in the love and appreciation that my children showed on this day of Fathers, I am reminded again of how many children I have loved and cared for over the last 25 years. What a privilege and a blessing.
Please pray in earnest with me that this facility will come together in time to continue that care and God's work. We'll need you all.

Thank-you,

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Steep Part of the Journey

These pictures aren't anything special. They could have been taken on any construction site or maybe a location that has been damaged by severe weather. The only thing that gives them a reason to be on my blog is that they were taken last week inside our new school building. Yes I am very aware of the calendar. I always wonder just how big of a moron people think I am when they ask if I'm aware that schools opening date is only eight weeks away.
So that's the scary part but it's also the exciting part because that means that I am only a few weeks away from the end of a three year journey. On Monday I have been promised the blueprints and 3D renderings of the finished school and we will have permits in one week. So for now all we can do is to demo what was there and get it ready.
Check back for updates and seriously better pictures.