Builders, we appreciate your prayers, provisions, and promotion for Greenhouse as we start the 2025-26 school year.

This month please pray that our new faculty and staff will get acclimated quickly and begin building good rapport both with colleagues and the students and families they serve. This fall we welcome five new employees: Melissa Aldana (Anatomy & Physiology Teacher), Jori Root (Designer), Olga Shroff (Applied Psychology Teacher), Jessica Smith (History & Lit Teacher), and Emily Wencel (Spanish 1 Teacher).

Throughout 2025-26, we will focus on “Believing” as our servant leadership theme. Many of us will memorize Hebrews 11, that great catalog of those who believed God. Perhaps you wonder whether your faith is in fact comparable to that of the saints of old. Perhaps you more closely identify with the man in Mark 9 who hoped to have his son delivered from a demon.

Mark 9:21-24 (ESV)

And Jesus asked [the man], “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

The man was on the right track. He had come to the right person. He believed that the hope for his son’s healing could be realized through the remarkable person of Jesus, despite the failure of Jesus’ disciples to help. Jesus’ invitation to believe comes amidst wavering faith: “All things are possible for the one who believes.” How deeply do we believe Him? Is our heart’s posture similar to the man who cries out “I believe; help my unbelief”? What is God calling you to trust Him for in this season? Rest in the promises of His Word. He is worthy of our utter belief. May we believe in Him, more than we believe in our ability to believe.