After a long break, the kids and faculty are back at school but how much thought goes into what makes our Adventist schools run as they should? There are many who work behind the scenes and support the schools with what they need and mostly on a volunteer basis.
This month, in light of Education Day, we want to salute the school boards who plan fundraising initiatives to help the schools meet their needs. We salute the parents who use their networks to provide much needed resources. We salute church members who dig deep into their pockets to sponsor a needy child, sometimes two. We salute friends who help with marketing material, sell tickets to school concerts, show up at school fetes with all kinds of goods and share their proceeds with our schools. Thank you for all that you do.
The General Conference Education Department shares some interesting facts and figures with us.
“The Education Department is responsible for the coordination, promotion, training, and quality of the global Seventh-day Adventist educational program, which includes 9,489 schools, colleges and universities, with 111,360 teachers and 2,044,709 students.
Working in close cooperation with the Education Department directors in the 13 world divisions, the staff offers services to boards, administrators, and faculty of Adventist colleges and universities worldwide. The staff also provides support through the world divisions to educational leaders at union/conference/mission levels and to teachers in Adventist elementary and secondary schools to ensure that the Adventist philosophy of education and the principles of faith-and-learning are integrated into the life of each institution.
Through AMiCUS, the Department cooperates with Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries and the Youth Ministries Departments in nurturing the faith of Adventist students attending non-Adventist colleges and universities around the world.” - General Conference Education Department, https://www.adventist.education/about-us/.
19 August 2023 is Education Day! We’d love to hear about your initiatives for the day.
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