We are so thankful for your role in supporting Greenhouse with your prayers and gifts. This month we ask you not only to pray, but also to advocate for Greenhouse with any families you know who would be well-suited to our mission.

Along that line, we ask you to join us in praying for additional students to join the core program in January. Specifically, we are praying for 6-9 students in first and second grades, as well as a few in eighth grade and one each in third and fourth. Pray that suitable families aligned with our servant leadership mission will apply before the November 15 deadline.

This school year, we are memorizing Hebrews 11, which many refer to as the Hall of Faith, followed by this passage…

Hebrews 12:1-3 (NCB)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that weighs us down and the sins that so easily distract us and with perseverance run the race that lies ahead of us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.

Are you aware of anything you need to “throw off” or any sin which is distracting you in the race? If so, in what ways could you better fix your eyes on Jesus? After all, He is the author of our faith, and it is He who has written the story in which we live. Therefore, let us trust Him fully as we live out our stories. Sometimes mid-story, we may be tempted to lose heart, or grow weary. That’s when we do well to consider Christ.

For the sake of the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, ignoring its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Reflect on how he endured such great hostility from sinners so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.

In our life together at Greenhouse, in our families, neighborhoods, churches and workplaces, may we consider Christ and take heart this month.