Much has changed since Converge 2022, when over 900 Christian school leaders gathered in San Diego for encouragement and refreshment after a trying three years of disruption. Since then, and as we look to Converge 2025 in Orlando, some things have improved: COVID has largely faded into the background, and interest and enrollments in Christian schools are significantly up. At…

“You have cancer.” These are words we both have heard, forcing us to embark on a journey we never wanted to take. Through all the twists and turns, peaks, and valleys, one thing has remained the same: God has always been faithfully present, ushering us through unexpected doors where we have been forced to be courageously good.   Being diagnosed with…

Our cultural moment is defined by isolation, fragmentation, and disconnection—evidenced by disconnected relationships, disconnected families, disconnected learning, disconnected purpose, and disconnected lives at every level. There seems to be dis-integration everywhere we look, and the despair of our age is that as individuals and as communities, we feel isolated and alone. But that is not how we were created, that’s…

I am a big believer that God made each and every one of us—individuals and organizations—on purpose AND for a purpose. We are ALL God’s masterpiece (Ephesians 2:10). Yet, we are all different—and different parts of the body of Christ (Romans 12:4–8)—as we lead and serve within different positions and different types of schools. When you combine those two pieces—that…

We have all heard the adage “leadership is lonely,” and it is likely most of us have experienced the reality of the phrase at one point or another in our careers. Of course, we work in schools, so we recognize that it isn’t just leaders who are lonely. We see it in our students, their families, and across our organizations. In…