Our School has always had a sense of being a comprehensive school, providing Christian education in many different areas of the curriculum, and in reaching a wide range of students of varying abilities who are represented in our local community. Additional resources and a high degree of resilience have been necessary to fulfil the responsibilities that come with the challenges that have faced us over the years.
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For more than 20 years Pacific Hills has engaged in a great deal of service to others. As we have been richly blessed with resources that we have been given, both in people and in physical equipment, we have believed that it is important that we share with others that have need of support and encouragement.
The establishment of a strong Missions program has been an important part of our obedience to what we believe God has called us to be as a Christian community. We have sought to obey God’s command as recorded in 1 Peter 4:10, “Each one should use whatever gift received (from God) to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms”. It has been delightful to observe students and adults who have committed to mission through the School, become enriched in their overall lives, particularly in their learning and commitment to excellence in performance.
We have also engaged for many years in tertiary training in Christian education both in Australia and overseas. A specific program that has been established is the Christian Education Development Program (CEDP) by which our staff travel to places of significant need in developing an understanding of Christian education. As our staff have planned to do this and have prepared for training others and then presented their understanding and reflected upon what they are teaching to others, we have seen the deepening of understanding and commitment to Christian education as it is practiced at Pacific Hills Christian School. Many mission teams go out from our School to serve both in Australia and many other parts of the world.
As I look back over my 30 years at Pacific Hills out of the 35 years of existence of our School, I am extremely thankful for the blessing of God to me and to all of us as He has provided for all of our needs and has allowed us to serve others in ways that we could never have imagined. Therefore, we celebrate the goodness of our God and the blessing of living and serving together both at Pacific Hills and beyond Pacific Hills. We celebrate the ministry of Pacific Coast Christian School at Tweed Heads and Pacific Valley Christian School at Townsend on the far north coast of NSW.
As we celebrate the past and the present we look forward to the future under God’s hand for His blessing. As in the past, there will be challenges and with the challenges we receive God’s grace. So totally we need to trust in Him. To God be the glory.
Dr E J Boyce
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