What are your deep hopes for your children? More specifically, what do you hope for when, each day, you send them off to Edmonton Christian Schools (West, Northeast or Senior High School)? These are great questions because deep hopes are at [...]
If you had a choice, what superpower would you have? Flight? Invisibility? Time travel? Breathing under water? That's fun to think about and it makes a great conversation starter at a dinner party. If dinner parties aren’t your thing, there [...]
Support on the Path: Family and Friends It could be said for all of us. Unless someone has walked a mile in our shoes ( or tool belt or business suit or chef’s apron, . . .) they can’t fully [...]
Alumnus Mark Dykstra's Story More than thirteen years after his last slam-dunk on the basketball courts at Edmonton Christian School, Mark Dykstra is still a student. As a Chief Surgical Resident at the U of A with an upcoming Surgical [...]
What I can do, I will do. A will-do attitude is a way of living God’s story in a broken world. Because we believe it is still a God-with-us world, Edmonton Christian Schools instils a will-do attitude in students. But, [...]
“What did you learn today?” That's a question often asked of our students around a dinner table. It's a great question, but not just for students! Why not ask the teachers at Edmonton Christian Schools the same question this week? [...]
Last week our schools observed Orange Shirt Day (as shown here in pictures from all three campuses). It was a day to honour indigenous people who survived Residential Schools and to remember those who didn’t. Wearing an orange shirt, especially in [...]
A former colleague and Principal of ECNS closed all her e-mails with an Andrew Greeley quote : “God draws straight with crooked lines.” It was a reminder that God can use flawed people, like me, to do God’s purpose. As [...]
More than one televison show or movie has made us chuckle at a character who often takes things literally. Someone says to that character, “Hop to it,” and we laugh (or groan) as they leave the room, hopping like a [...]
Another school year. Another school theme: “ dig deep. cultivate community.” It’s pretty easy to read the words and then skip right to the next thing that vies for our attention. But moving on too quickly could leave some richness [...]
