Heartland Focus
April 8, 2010
Last week I indicated that our Heartland board chairman, Dr. Mark Claussen, challenged us as Heartland Christian Academy board members and staff to consider targets of excellence this school should be aiming at in the years to come. As part of our 30th anniversary celebration of serving the Northland, it seemed like a good opportunity to focus our attention and goals for the upcoming years of educational ministry.
April 1, 2010
2010 marks 30 years of educational ministry in the Bemidji area for Heartland Christian Academy. As a call to envision what the next decades might look like, our board chairman Dr. Mark Claussen recently challenged us board members and staff to consider targets of excellence this school should be aiming at in the years to come. Obviously, it is not possible to apply focused attention on absolutely everything that a school might do, nor is it helpful to aim at nothing in particular.
March 25, 2010
After 30 years of educational ministry to the children of the Northland, Heartland Christian Academy’s theme continues as “bearing fruit that remains.” We have examined together the spiritual fruit God has been producing in our students over the years, including those listed in Galatians: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” We also looked at honesty and integrity, personal responsibility, a healthy and humble self-worth, and a desire for personal excellence.
March 18, 2010
In keeping with Heartland Christian Academy’s theme of “bearing fruit that remains,” we have been examining together the spiritual fruit God has been producing in our students over the years, including those listed in Galatians: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Last week we also looked at honesty and integrity, personal responsibility, a healthy and humble self-worth, and a desire for personal excellence.
March 11, 2010
In 30 years of ministry to children, Heartland Christian Academy’s theme has been “bearing fruit that remains.” Last week we looked at the spiritual fruit listed in Galatians: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” This week, let’s look at some of the other character qualities that I have seen developed in our students in these recent years that I have served as principal. These are qualities do not apply only to children but will, if our school is successful, be fruit that remains into adulthood.
March 4, 2010
This year, Heartland Christian Academy is celebrating its 30th anniversary of ministering to the children of the Bemidji area with Christ-centered education and training for a godly life. To the best of my knowledge, for all those years, our school’s theme has been “bearing fruit that remains.” It is on the school sign as you enter our property. It is on our stationery and business cards. For the next several weeks, join me on Heartland Focus as we explore what that “fruit that remains” might look like in the lives of our precious children.
February 25, 2010
This month we have been exploring together the treasure of relationships, including friendships that our children develop and nurture in school. Teachers can oftentimes be counted on as a friend to your child, but it is obviously not an equal relationship, and cannot be allowed to interfere with the respect and professional distance which a teacher- student relationship demands. However, there are some lessons that a good instructor can teach that are essential elements for friendship:
February 18, 2010
This month we are looking at the relationships that your child will develop during their school-age years. At Heartland, we pay attention to the relationships that are developing between our students, and we try our best to foster an atmosphere of friendship and mutual respect. It matters who your child picks as a friend, and it is a matter of grave concern when a parent confides, “my son or daughter has no friends.”
February 4, 2010
During the month of January, I shared how children need deliberate, parental guidance to learn how to successfully make positive, God-honoring choices and develop the skills needed for mature, responsible behavior and adult decision-making. I urge you to go to our website, heartlandbemidji.org and listen again to those broadcasts, or download the transcripts for study.
In this first week of February, let’s examine the markers that you can be watching for that will indicate that the lessons for making good decisions are, in fact, being learned.
February 11, 2010
February is a time that we traditionally think about relationships and the people that are important to us. For the next several weeks, I would like to focus on relationships in school, and how you as a parent can help foster healthy and encouraging relationships for your son or daughter.
