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Director's Comment DIRECTORS COMMENT PETER ROGLEY Whilst it seems we have just trations and an optional CD-ROM with colour pictures linked to the lessons. celebrated Christmas the reality is the new year is well underway. We Government in Australia is in the process of editing and should be pray you have had a blessed available in the first half of the year. Christmas time and were able to History of Australia has been in trial visit with family and friends. edition and a revised edition should be available by the end of the year. This is the twenty fifth year for Light Educational Ministries and Light of Life The Elements of Music Volume 3 is in and we are thankful to the Lord for the writing stage and should be blessing and sustaining us for quarter of a available in late 2004. century. In keeping with our 25th year we have done some reorganisation of this This Issue magazine. We expect in future you will receive Light of Life in a plastic bag and In Exploring Christian Education I this has necessitated eliminating many of explore the notion of freedom in our loose flyer inserts. To accommodate educating our children. We have two this the back pages are now dedicated to articles from the Christian School Builder informing you of upcoming seminars and on Enriching Students Vocabulary and providing a registration form. Developing Students Interest. Being overweight is the issue of the time and I explore some aspects of this in health. In Projects the LEM Phonics Corner Evelyn tells how The major rewrite of our grade 67 shes been keeping busy since returning physical geography text The Earth from China. continues and should be available in 2 Keep educating for the Lord! 3 months. Lets Teach Art Grade K has had a thorough review. It is now housed in a bright new cover, with more illus- LIGHT O LIE 1 EBRUARY 2004 NEWS UPDATE Phonics and an application for funding has been lodged. We have also been working with Gabriel LEM Building Project Waine, who is pioneering Christian schools After a three month delay our project is from Lae. He has established one Christian now going before Cabinet in the ACT for school in Lae, as well as two more in the the final time. The lease documentation is highlands. Andrew Maiyan, Principal of an being prepared and we trust construction elementary school in the settlement area of could begin this first half of the year. Lae, began a school in 2003 and has been using LEM Phonics since midyear. Unfortunately, as the process drags on costs tend to rise and we are looking to the Lord to touch peoples hearts to www.lem.com.au support us in this project. In the year since we launched our most recent fundraising The website is currently undergoing a effort we have received gifts totalling significant upgrade, with many changes nearly $29,000. =or this we are greatly being implemented as a result of your appreciative. feedback. Our fundraising brochure and response We have removed the introductory page slip are enclosed with the prayer that you and created a new Welcome page, which consider the LEM Building =und for your contains more detailed links for our latest tax deductible giving in 2004. news and products, as well as brief instructions on how to navigate the site. Papua New Guinea Other changes include improved loading indicators and navigation tools, enhance- Our PNG representative, Mesia Novau, ments to the online order form, a has now trained twenty teachers in Port comprehensive update of all LEM publi- Moresby. When I was in PNG in cations, as well as minor cosmetic changes. November 2003 I met many of the We expect the updated site to be online in teachers and their Principals who were all the next few weeks. If you have any enthusiastic about teaching LEM Phonics. questions or comments, please email The Assistant Superintendent for Port [email protected]. Moresby is keen to implement LEM LIGHT O LIE 2 EBRUARY 2004 EXPLORING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION PETER ROGLEY 50 The Jubilee! I noted as I was pondering about Jubilee writing an article for this edition of I want to begin this article with the Light of Life that this is the fiftieth biblical idea of jubilee, which scripture tells us came around every fifty years. I Exploring Christian Education, dont want to pursue any theological having begun the series in August ramifications of the jubilee as there are 1991. many others who could do so far more effectively. Suffice to say here that the I began this series with the idea of writing jubilee was a time of releaseof being set what I believed off the top of my head free. =reedom is a biblical conceptit without footnotes or deep research. I guess doesnt flow from democracy! that is my preferred style. I wanted to share This freedom was a precursor to the what motivated me and the conclusions I essence of the Gospel messagethat Jesus had come to in Christian education. As a came that we might be set free from the result the articles are sometimes a little burden of sin, once for all time. The joy of disjointed and often present politically that knowledge is for us who have come to incorrect ideas. My goal has been to know Him in Christ. Our struggle is over, provoke you to consider each topic having discovered the rest that is in His presented. Whether you agree with me or imputed righteousness. not is not really importantfor me the issue is that we all need to think more about educational issues, their relationship What Are We to Do? to God and our need to make application of the biblical principles presented. But what does that mean to be set free, apart from feeling good and believing we It has been refreshing to regularly have are going to heaven? If we dont know, we folk speak to me about articles, may well be left with the idea that life here particularly at CHESS seminars, and it has on this earth is a second rate existence. been encouraging that the vast majority Therefore, yearning to be taken away to have been blessed and appreciative. be with the Lord in heaven is the real LIGHT O LIE 3 EBRUARY 2004 focus of the Christian life. Whilst I look need to make a fresh start, leaving that forward to being with the Lord in which has gone before and moving on into eternityindeed that is the great hope of the new things God has prepared for us. the Christian faiththe reason we have been set free must be understood as it we all, from time to time, need to determines the way we will live our lives. God has make a fresh start purposed to leave us here on earth and He has a very important reason to do so. New Beginning for a As we are concerned about our children, New Creation their futures and how we should be In Christ, we begin again, but what do we training and equipping them, it becomes begin? What is the goal and purpose of our imperative that we understand what on existence here on this planet? earth we are doing here! Before we get to the goal, however, lets The Problem revisit the definition for education God gave me many years ago: Sin was a blight on the earth and all its Education is the unfolding of God inhabitants, separating them forever from His character and His creation. God, their creator. The jubilee (together with many other aspects of the Old This has been invaluable to me in helping Covenant) pointed to the coming of understand the broad perspective of Christ, who has made the perfect sacrifice education. =or me the goal of education is for sin and made it possible for the effects to unfold God. of sin to be reversed. In exploring this definition it is important Whilst these Old Testament principles, to consider some theological ramifications. and indeed the law, have been fulfilled in =irstly, in whatever we do we should begin Christ, we miss something if we dismiss with GodHe is the Lord and creator of them as being irrelevant. =or example, it is all things. The humanist begins with man still prudent and important to keep the and this is one of the fundamental errors Sabbath. This is not legalistic, as some ideological humanists (and also many suppose, but for our benefitwe need to Christians) make. have a day of rest! More than that, we need to be obedient to Gods law. Secondly, it is not possible for me, or Likewise, the idea of the jubilee is anyone else for that matter, to unfold God. important as we all, from time to time, We are not able to fathom Himas Dr LIGHT O LIE 4 EBRUARY 2004 Glen Martin has suggestedif we could, have all been trained to think we would be God. =ortunately, God has independently of God. That is the essence been so gracious as to send the Holy of humanism and that is the prevailing Spirit to dwell in and be with us. Because philosophy of modern state education and, He is God He is able to unfold Himself to unfortunately, of most Christian educators uswe call this inspiration or revelation. who have been trained in humanist institutions. The key is that we understand that we are dependent on God. We come to Him as To learn to think in submission to God is Lord in an attitude of submission.
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