A Message from Head of School, Tom Argersinger
Dear Parents and Friends of CCS,
By now most of us are back in the school groove – and all that goes along with that!
It has been a great opening of the school year, and there is much to be grateful for – like a bumper crop of new students joining the CCS family full of hope and promise for what God might do in and through them. At the same time, the opening has not been without its challenges.
My guess is that you and your family can echo that in your own lives. Blessings mixed with challenges.
The longer we live the more we come to understand that each day (or season) has enough trouble of its own. (Matt. 6:34)
The issue is not so much Let’s wait until things slow down or things get simpler or the kids grow up and move out…
The fact is that some of you who are reading this are right there, right in the place of great challenge. And you’re wondering how you're going to face this, when God is going to show up, and when you or your loved one is going to be rescued.
These are all very human responses. Yet as citizens of the Kingdom of God, we must ask ourselves:
Why is this situation so overwhelming to me? What does it say about my perspective?
What do I believe about life, the Kingdom and God Himself – and how does what I feel right now square with my identity in Christ?
What does joy and victory look like right now?
A smart person once said that the thing that tends to define us is not just our answers, but the questions that we ask ourselves. They tell us a lot about how we see the world.
The truth is that the more we here at CCS unpack our theme of “Live the Kingdom”, the deeper we are forced to go, the more that we have to zoom in on what the Kingdom of God is really like, and how we should live in light of that Kingdom.
To be sure, I celebrate the many wonderful things that God is doing at CCS right now – especially how we are beginning to press in on what it means to seek an awakening of His Spirit on our campus.
As it turns out, this very thing is happening right now around the U.S., on a number of college campuses, in what some are calling the “Quiet Revival”.
This is what my heart longs for here at CCS.
There are so many that need to be healed, to find and be found by the Living God, to pick up the Bible and read, really read, and do what it says. So many that need a fresh encounter with the Maker and Sustainer of all things.
As one small step toward this reality, later this fall we will be hosting a Night of Worship and Prayer at CCS (November date TBA).
Much more about this in the days to come.
For now, may I encourage all of us to continue to be faithful to press into God i.e. set aside dedicated, silent, word-centered time to be with Jesus. And may the Holy Spirit meet us in those moments and throughout our days, planting the seeds for something even greater than we can imagine.
May you and your family walk with Jesus intimately this school year, and may He be everything that you need – for real.
For CCS and the Kingdom,
Tom