Recently, I spent a week in Chicago this summer at the ACSI Flourishing Schools Institute, and I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Sean McDowell speak on what it means “to think Christianly.” He said the following: “If we don’t intentionally teach kids a biblical worldview, they will unintentionally adopt the worldview of our secular […]
As we begin the 2020-2021 school year and Gramercy enters its 40th year as a school, we are reminded yet again that as Christians we “walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). 2020 has been a year of extraordinary upheaval for parents, students, and schools alike, but we rejoice that God has […]
My eldest son graduates from Gramercy Christian School in a week. Fresh from California and in a little bit of culture shock, Owen started GCS as a fourth grader, under the watchful eye of Mrs. Suzanne Israel. I will never forget his first day of school. I somehow missed the memo that the first day […]
A number of years ago, a girlfriend of mine encouraged me to begin writing a blog. Blogging was just becoming a “thing” of sorts, and I gave it a feeble effort. The title of the blog was “Good Morning VietMom,” and I chose that title because I was becoming increasingly aware of the fact that […]
Thirteen years ago, my family began the journey into Christian education. Prior to having children, I had no clue what a difficult decision choosing a school would be. In fact, in the 1970’s and 80’s, when I was a school-aged girl, I knew very few kids who didn’t attend the local public school around the […]
Yesterday was the 243rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps, and tomorrow is Veterans Day. Flags are at half mast, and Monday is a national holiday. On Friday, the kids of Gramercy Christian School, as well as most of the towns of Newport and Morehead City, NC, stood on the side of Highway 70 […]
I am an educator, not a politician. I am a teacher and a taxpayer, and more importantly, a mother, which is why I am awake at 3 AM thinking about nations. Yesterday, in what felt like a rite of passage, I took my eldest son, who recently turned 18 years old, to the polls to […]
I am sitting on my front porch, heavy sighing over yet another day of missed school due to inclement weather, and I’m attempting to remind my soul to be still. We have barely shaken off the sadness and stress of Hurricane Florence, and I feel our community’s collective distress over even the whisper of more […]
Horizons are interesting. There is always such a clear-cut line between ocean and sky. As I sit here on the edge of Hurricane Florence, however, I find that the line between the storm and a state of normalcy is much more blurry. We have been out of school for 10 days and will miss another […]
At Gramercy this year, our theme verse is from Proverbs 4:23, which says, “Above all else, guard your heart from out of it flows everything you do.” We chose this verse in part because we recognize that, as a Christian school, we run the risk of becoming overly focused on simple behavior modification, forgetting that the religion Jesus taught […]