This year is an exciting one for us as a school for a number of reasons.
We have a large number of new students beginning at Calvin from Kindergarten through to Year 12. We are feeling both the blessing and excitement of growth and, in a number of classes, we are simply full. Each new student brings something different to our School and for them, this is something of a ‘new beginning’, a chance for a new start.
At the opening of our School in 1962, the following words were spoken: “With thankfulness to God, Who guided our hands and hearts, we may now look back with satisfaction to many days of hard work and steady progress. But today is not just the end of a period, it is to mark a new beginning that we have assembled here.”
Neatly encapsulated within that dedication, was an acknowledgement of the past, of God’s faithfulness through years of giving, fundraising and voluntary labour since 1954 that had led up to the School’s opening. Significantly, this became a point from which to look forward to the exciting future that was to come (‘a new beginning’).
“The idea of a ‘new beginning’ was and is something to be celebrated, it speaks of hope for our children and their futures.”
It is now 60 years since those first classes opened and we, as a school community, continue to acknowledge God’s imprint on our past, His presence in our present, and we look forward to the future to which he calls us. Those founding school families knew that God was not going to stop at the point of having established the School. The idea of a ‘new beginning’ was and is something to be celebrated, it speaks of hope for our children and their futures.
This year, in our 60 Year celebrations, we are continuing to look forward with hope to the new beginning promised through Jesus, believing that He is interested in all aspects of our lives and has the power to transform us and our community. In that sense, we continue, faithful to the founding vision of Calvin Christian School, proclaiming that there is “one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all” Ephesians 4:6.
Scott Ambrose - Principal