Board Meeting Surprise

It’s Thursday morning and I am taking a short moment to blog.  The week is winding up and a busy weekend lies ahead.  Verde Valley and Maricopa Village school board meetings were fruitful and productive.  The board meeting in Maricopa last night took over three hours!

I also took some time to visit the Desert Valley School in Tucson.  It was good morning there.  One scene that registered was entering the lower grade classroom and observing the entire class sitting around a semi-circle table doing classwork while singing Christmas carols.  It was a heart-warming moment.  I also enjoyed my time with the upper grades, where I spent the lion’s share of the morning.

Something extraordinary took place during the long board meeting in Maricopa.  We are facing enrollment challenges of the good kind—too many students.  We had to wrestle with the idea of capping enrollment for the time being, while at the same time wondering how we could find the resources to hire a part-time teacher’s aide for the teaching principal.

              
God, I sense, had anticipated our need.  During the course of the meeting the pastor’s wife, who is a member of the committee, presented the board with a check from the Pacific Union Conference that was exactly the amount we needed to cover the aide for the remainder of the school year.  We were all pretty excited about the development.  God is looking after Maricopa!  Back to work….