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“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…

The thoughtful discussions and sincere prayers regarding the theme Faithfully Present, Courageously Good have been a highlight of ACSI’s service on the Converge 2025 Steering Committee. Serving alongside such a distinguished group who are leading a variety of global Christian school associations has indeed sharpened us together (Proverbs 27:17). The word “converge” is used to describe people coming together at…

If you are a leader in the Christian education sector—say a school founder, a principal, a board chair, or even if you are part of a team leading a school or serving on the board of directors—it’s likely you’ve had the occasional brush with feeling isolated or even alone. Let’s face it, being a person of faith in Canada—when only…

A staggering 86 percent of Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus do not have personal contact with a Christian (Johnson and Ross 2009). How can this be? Didn’t Jesus command us as His disciples to “go and make disciples of all the nations”? Another way to read that would be to “go make disciples of all the peoples/people groups.” When I learned…

The work that we do is largely lived out in a community. In this work, God propels us toward others; as school leaders, we are immediately in the mix of parents, educators, staff, and students. We become part of a broader story He is writing not only in our lives but also in the lives of others. We are invited…

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…

Jay Ferguson, headmaster of Grace Community School in Tyler, Texas, shares a couple of ways we as Christian educators can prepare our hearts, and those of our students and families, to be uniters and reconcilers.