The Blessings of Parent/Teacher Conferences
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
One of the most fascinating aspects regarding working with children is watching God grow and cultivate their individual gifts, talents, and personality traits throughout their lives. Often, teachers will notice certain qualities and wonder how God is going to develop and use that characteristic in the future. For example, we've watched students fascinated with science and space grow up, attend MIT, and work for NASA. We've watched children who were fabulous at fixing broken items around the school grow up, and become engineers or accomplished mechanics. We've had students, who were wonderful tutors, attend the Concordia colleges and now are high school math teachers. We've had kids that were fascinated with dissection become surgeons, while one student who was famous for doodling is now employed as an animator for Sony and Play Station.