Training Up

WE RECENTLY ASKED A GROUP OF SCCS TEACHERS HOW THEY WOULD ANSWER THIS QUESTION:  “WHY IS CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IMPORTANT?" 

We'll be featuring an entry from teachers over the next several weeks with their answer.

Our next teacher is Megan Haan, part of the kindergarten team.

Training Up

Painted around the top of our old school office were the words of Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

The teachers, administrators, staff, and parents of Sioux Center Christian School want that future for our students. Those who leave our doors are able to carry Christ with them in all that they do.

In the daily happenings of our school, teachers are providing a quality education. They have dedicated themselves to not only teaching students things like how to read, what 2 plus 2 is, and what different types of rocks are, but they have also deeply dedicated themselves to teaching students how to be creation-lovers, justice-seekers, and Christ-imitators. The education students receive when they come to SCCS reaches much deeper than the basics.

We take what we learn about our world and each other and use it to better God’s Kingdom. Our students dive into God’s Word and commit it to memory, so when they leave our walls, they are able to use it and spread it to others.

In kindergarten, we focus a lot of our time on how to have a loving heart. How we treat other people can be a good indication of what is living inside of us. If we are kind, respectful, and gentle, others will know that there is something special guiding our lives, and we want our kindergarten students to know how to show others that God is that special thing.

So why choose Christian education? We are not just in the business of training children how to act and what to say, but we are instilling in our students the source of true love and joy. We are providing them with tools for spreading God’s Word. We are helping them to form a deep faith in the one true God because only in Him can we do anything. 

And when our students become scientists, business people, doctors, stay-at-home moms or dads or even teachers, they will not depart from Him.

That is what Christian education is all about.

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Megan Haan has been teaching kindergarten at SCCS for 6 years.  Her hope is that every child that comes into her classroom will see God’s love through every aspect of her teaching and can share that love with those around them.  She lives in Sioux Center with her husband Rob and her two children, Rowan and Emma.  To learn more about Mrs. Haan, click here.