Like a farmer that plants, waters and prunes, a teacher spends long hours planning, teaching, encouraging, challenging, assessing, and remediating her students, waiting to see enlightenment or growth produced.
You may have a dream that you feel is dead. As a matter of fact, you know it is dead. Perhaps it is a promise from God that you have given up on, or a scripture that once gave you hope that you now have lost confidence in.
“This book is just not meant for pretty reading,” she states. ”It’s not for coffee-table curiosity and other such cameo appearances. Think of it instead as industrial grade survival gear.”
Food insecurity plagues one out of every ten Florida households. Studies show that hungry children have impaired learning skills and increased behavioral and emotional problems.
Doris and Brian Zinck had agreed that when they retired from Volusia County Schools, they would do short term mission work. So when God opened doors to a city in China, they crossed the ocean in January 2018.
Five of us were retiring, and I found myself surveying my cleaned-out office. Friends dropped by with hugs and well wishes. I felt butterflies in my stomach thinking about leaving never to return.
People can often be found talking about other people’s personal business or matters in the office, in the hallway, on the phone, or on social media. When chatting with others, it is easy to determine what you might have in common.
Scripture, God’s precious word, is essential to daily living, as necessary as the air we breathe and the food we eat. Even more than that, it’s crucial to a victorious life.
Last spring an article was printed in WAVES that described how Sweetwater Elementary kindergarten teacher, Megan Martens, traveled to the village of La Salinas de Nahualapa, Nicaragua with representatives from Daytona State College’s Teaching Beyond Borders organization.
