NORWICH

The School Board of the Rehoboth Christian School, Norwich, Ontario, Canada, needs two teachers for the coming school year to teach in the higher grades, especially one teacher to teach mathematics.

Applicants that are interested are requested to send in their application and resume to the Principal, Mr. Otto deLeeuw, R.R. No. 3, Norwich, Ontario, Canada NOJ-1PO, Tel No. 519/863-6810, or the Secretary of the school board, Mr. John Honcoop, E. Main St., Norwich, Ontario, Canada NOJ-1PO, Tel. No. 519/863-2443.

PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

Applications are now being accepted for possible openings for teachers at Providence Christian School in Kalamazoo for the fall of 1980. Please send application and resume to:

John Polderman,

10405 S. 2nd St.,

Schoolcraft, Mich., 49087

Telephone: 616/668-2124

LETHBRIDGE-FORT MACLEOD

Calvin Christian School of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations of Lethbridge and Fort Macleod invites applications from certified teachers for the Elementary and Junior High School levels.

The school hopes to begin its second school year in Sept. 1980, the Lord willing.

Presently grades 1 to 7 are taught, and hopefully, kindergarten and grade 8 can be added this coming school year.

For information contact the principal, Mr. A.H. Verhoef at telephone number 403/328-0495.

Applications should be sent to Mr. Adrian DeWilde, Sec’y, P.O. Box 142, Monarch, Alberta, Canada, TOL-1MO, Tel No. 403/824-3698.

TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Chilliwack, B.C.

The Lord willing, we plan to add the twelfth grade to our curriculum in the next school year. In doing so, we need to hire two more teachers for our high school program. Some preference of subject area(s) and grade levels can be given. Anyone interested in applying or desiring more specific information concerning these positions is invited to contact our president or principal.

May the Lord graciously provide for our needs, and the needs of all our schools in this respect also.

The Timothy Christian School Board

Rev. A.W. Verhoef, President

26 Woodbine Street

Chilliwack, B.C.

Canada V2P 5S4

(604) 795-9075

Mr. James W. Beeke, Principal

10435 McGrath Road, R.R. No. 1

Rosedale, B.C.

Canada VOX 1XO

(604) 794-7109

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Psalm 19:9-10

ARE OUR OWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS REALLY NECESSARY? PART IV

Objection Number 4:

“Our children are not better. They should not be separated from other children.”

The first statement of this objection is true: by nature, we or our children are not better than any other human being; however, the second statement contains a wrong conclusion. The children of Israel were not any better—yet they were separated. Church-goers are not any better—yet they are separated. Our children are not any better—yet they are separated. God has made a separation, where by nature there is no separation. In the Old Testament, God separated the children of the church by the sign of circumcision, and now in the New Testament times they are separated by baptism. Is there an advantage or profit in this separation? Paul writes to the Romans:

“What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much everyway: chiefly, because unto them were committed the oracles of God. “ Romans 3:1-2

God gave His Word to His church and commanded them to daily instruct their children, (Deut. 6:7), and so He commands us yet today. Our Christian schools are not established because our children are better, but to instruct them that they are not: to instruct them that we are all sinners and that we all need to be saved through the work of a Triune God. Nor is it true that a Christian school, of itself, will make students better. The Sovereign God alone must bless the means. Our Christian schools are formed because of God’s command; His command to:

“Train up a child in the way he should go:

-Proverbs 22:6a

An opposite argument here is also in error: that students of Christian parents should attend public schools as a good influence. First: children of Christian parents are not better of themselves than other children; second: we can not assume that all are Christians; and third: the basic principles of Christianity need to be developed to a certain level of maturity for a student to testify of his convictions. The purpose of the Christian school is to teach, develop, and strengthen these basic principles, praying that God may bless the instruction given to the heart, that the last part of the text just quoted may be proven to be true:

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

-Proverbs 22:6

If God blesses the Christian training given during a child’s formative school years, then a person is able, by grace, to testify in the world in which he or she will function later.

In this same line of thought, the assertion that: private Christian schools are not in the spirit of the country, that they are not promoting equality or our freedom, or that they are Un-American or Un-Cana-dian, is also a misjudgement. Our freedom includes the precious freedom to select what type of philosophy of education my child should be subjected to. Rev. J.A. Pike writes on this issue:

“I believe that the most American thing is not the melting pot, but the freedom to be different. If I want to educate my child a Moslem and have that permeate his whole life, Americanism means I ‘m free to do it. The insistence upon a totalitarian, state-controlled, monlithic (all-the-same) school system does not savor of Americanism; it smacks of Nazism and of Fascism and of Communism. The first thing Hitler did was to get rid of all schools except the state-controlled ones. The first thing the Communists got rid of was any opposition to the state-controlled school system.”

Our Christian schools attempt to promote good citizenship, love to God and to our neighbour, and respect for God-given authority, based on the Holy Scriptures. In this manner we must strive to prayerfully walk according to God’s own command in training our children.

Are our own Christian schools really necessary? (to be continued)

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