August 2025 Revealing Light Newsletter

“True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien

“You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.”
— C. S. Lewis

“...from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.”
2 Timothy 3:15

“For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth comes knowledge and understanding...”
Proverbs 2:6

It could be the same mundane routine, another school year that could just come and go; or it could be intentional days filled and rooted in God working through each of us. He's excited to get to do that, sharing His love for each of us through each of us. As the body of Christ, we get to share life with families and students who are getting to learn and grow together. There’s a lot to learn here, but we also get to learn how each day is filled with God in our lives, guiding us in our words, thoughts, prayers, and actions. Whether that is taking place between parents and children, teachers and students, peers, bus drivers and students, coaches and students, families and families, and so on. Each day, you are being reminded of God’s presence, and how you can help bring to mind the ways God is working in each of us, through every relationship we are experiencing.

We’re praying for you as you interact with students, teachers, your children and parents, peers and school families, community members who are working together to help build up each other through God’s Word and Spirit in us. We're praying for your compassion and wisdom, your heart, care, and love for each other, working through the easy and challenging days by God's love, grace, mercy, and compassion. We pray that you may be intentional with each unique day and conversation that God blesses us with.

What a gift to know God through Jesus, and to share His love, compassion, care, and relationship with each other. We look to Him to see what He is doing, as we get to trust Him through every moment. I encourage you to be the disciples of Jesus in each other’s lives, discipling one another in God’s love through each day this school year brings.
 
- Daryl Struemph

It’s amazing to see everything come together, at least, the beginning of that fruit. We got to experience the week of VBS with the kids “On the Case”, looking into the parables from Jesus, showing us how we can grow, serve, care, and love.

• Spending time with God is how we grow (Sower - Lk 8:4-15)
• Using our gifts is how we serve (Bags of Gold - Mt 25:14-29)
• Spending time with others is how we care (The Good Samaritan - Lk 10:25-37)
• Sharing our story is how we love (Lost Coin, Sheep, and Son - Lk 15:1-32)

We say it's amazing to see just the beginning of that fruit because VBS is one of those ways God continues to work in us and through us as we are each growing in our relationship with Him. It was exciting to see how excited and involved the students were, and to see how every volunteer came together to grow and serve as well, even the students found ways to help serve each other. We continue to look toward what God is doing in and through each of us.

Thank you to everyone who helped make VBS possible, the hours of preparing the content, the decorations, and organizing each day. It’s a joy to see how the Body of Christ continues to come together as God works through each of it’s members. We praise God!

- Daryl Struemph

So Christ himself gave [as gifts to the church] the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. […] we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:11-16).