The Thanksgiving Song
Here’s the first Thanksgiving anthem I’ve ever heard, and it gives a little nod to 2020. It’s a bit of fun in this hard year. Let me know what you think about it!
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Penn Christian Academy Part-Time Custodian
Penn Christian Academy is accepting applications for a part-time custodian (20 hours/week). This is a year-round position. Pay begins at $8.00/hour. Applicants must have a high school diploma or higher. All applicants must be born-again and in whole-hearted agreement with the school’s Statement of Faith and Christian Philosophy of Education. Email the Director of Facility Services and Safety, Brian Cairns, (bcairns@pennchristianacademy.org) to apply or call the school office at (724) 586 – 5200.
PCA considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, the presence of a non-job medical condition or handicap, or any other legally protected status.
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PUCS is currently hiring for the following roles:
Executive Director – click here to learn more
Middle School Science Teacher – Please email your resume, cover letter, and credentials to Education Director Christy Wauzzinski at christy.wauzzinski@pucs.org.
First Grade Classroom Aide – Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and PUCS Application form (attached here) to christy.wauzzinski@pucs.org.
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Substitute Teachers
Follow these links for more information about substitute teaching:
Beaver County Christian School Employment
Trinity Christian School Employment
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Christian Community and Where to Find It
The local Christian school isn’t the same thing as the local church, but the believers there are a part of the Church Universal.
As believers, we are best suited to living life in community with other believers. For this reason, many of us look for ways to be together more than just on Sunday mornings. We have fellowship dinners, youth groups, Bible studies, ladies’ brunches, men’s lunches, Christmas parties, and Easter teas. We invite one another into our homes and our hearts. We walk and talk and sing and pray together. We serve each other and we love one another.
For those of us with school-aged children, one more way we invite our children into a life of community is through their daily education. We might homeschool and find Christian friends to meet with throughout the month. We might public school and send our children to a before-school Bible study. And finally, we might send our children to Christian schools where their teachers, classmates, coaches, and more are united in love for Jesus.
The necessary thing is to live in community with other believers, the Church. Thankfully, there are many ways to find fellowship for ourselves and for our children. Any one of these ideas (or others I haven’t mentioned) might be the best fit for our children. I personally have experience as a homeschooling mom–filling our weeks with activities with Christian friends–and as a Christian-school mom, where the fellowship opportunities come a bit easier. And even in my public high school as a Christian high schooler myself, I remember finding before-school Bible studies to attend.
While fellowship may not be all of our main concerns when considering school choices, it is a valid concern. If you have been looking for daily Christian fellowship like what is found in our schools, please reach out to us.
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Miracles by Walt Whitman
Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
To me the sea is a continual miracle,
The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the
ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?
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Disturb us, Lord
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.
Amen!
—Attributed to Sir Francis Drake
Truth
I live in a good school district. Shouldn’t I take advantage of all the good the world has to offer?
Western Pennsylvania is blessed to have many school districts who emphasize academic excellence. And in every school, there are good teachers. There are probably even teachers who love the Lord at every school.
What they do not have is the freedom to tell the complete truth.
All truth is God’s truth. If something is true, it is true–regardless of who is telling it! But sometimes, and we all know this, truth is incomplete. If your chemistry teacher knows the periodic table of elements like the back of her hand, but doesn’t know who created those elements, she will understand the world differently than the teacher who knows both the elements and their creator.
While your child will study the elements in any chemistry classroom, in a Christian school, your child will see that these elements display God’s goodness and glory in creating such an amazing world full of such treasures as gold (79Au), platinum (78Pt), and silver (47Ag).
We do know that there are reasons that for some, their public school really is the best fit for their child. But if this is not true of you, check out one of our schools. You can use our map to find a school whose teachers want to help your child understand the creation and love the Creator. If you think a Christian school might be a good fit but are afraid you cannot afford it, there are scholarships and/or financial aid opportunities at our schools.
A Non-Political Election Day Post
This election day, Greater Pittsburgh Christian Schools Network wants to offer our friends throughout the region a psalm of encouragement. While this may be a very important day and election, we know that our God the King cares for us.
HALLELUJAH, PRAISE JEHOVAH (PSALM 146)
Hallelujah, praise Jehovah,
O my soul, Jehovah praise;
I will sing the glorious praises
Of my God through all my days.
Put no confidence in princes,
Nor for help on man depend;
He shall die, to dust returning,
And his purposes shall end.
Happy is the man that chooses
Israel’s God to be his aid;
He is blest whose hope of blessing
On the Lord his God is stayed.
Heaven and earth the Lord created,
Seas and all that they contain;
He delivers from oppression,
Righteousness He will maintain.
Food He daily gives the hungry,
Sets the mourning prisoner free,
Raises those bowed down with anguish,
Makes the sightless eyes to see,
Well Jehovah loves the righteous,
And the stranger He befriends,
Helps the fatherless and widow,
Judgment on the wicked sends.
Hallelujah, praise Jehovah,
O my soul, Jehovah praise;
I will sing the glorious praises
Of my God through all my days.
Over all God reigns forever,
Through all ages He is King;
Unto Him, thy God, O Zion,
Joyful hallelujahs sing.
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