Builders, we appreciate your praying for, providing for, and promoting Greenhouse as we start the 2024-25 school year.

Please be praying especially for our new faculty and staff. Pray that they 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 teachers*: Heidi Appleton (Logic Hist/Lit), Jeff Boriss (Technical Arts), Ashley Condra (Freshman Lit), Laura Johnston (Grammar & Logic Science) and Ellie Tate (Grammar & Logic Performing Arts). Also pray for our new staff members: Eber Condrell (Exec Ass’t to Head of Co-School), Sydney Lawrence (Exec Ass’t to Principal), and Sabrina Thompson (Front Desk Team member).

The beginning of a new academic year provides a fresh start. However, for some students (and homeschooling parents) it also awakens anxiety or fear. At such moments, it is good to recall David’s words in Psalm 27.

Psalm 27:1,4 (NIV)

The Lord is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid? …

One thing I ask from the Lord,
    this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
    and to seek him in his temple.

Consider light. It illuminates, sanitizes, warms, reveals, captivates. What then does it mean for God to be my light and salvation? Kowing God is my light, is there some darkness I am fearing unnecessarily? Teach me, Lord, how to “dwell” in Your house in my daily routines and to train my gaze on your beauty. Help Greenhouse to be a community that lives unafraid in the light of Your beautiful presence.

*You can learn more about our new employees at www.greenhousecoschool.org/faculty-staff