We are honored to partner with parents as they raise their children.  In this special guest post, Stephanie and Phil Brooks share their gratitude for the role our school played in the lives of their children, Hannah and Harrison.  Hannah, Class of 2001, graduated with a Pharm D from UNC Chapel Hill in 2012 and now works as a Doctor of Pharmacy & Clinical Specialist at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital.  Harrison, Class of 2003, graduated with a BS in Business Administration in 2011 from UNC Chapel Hill and currently works in Charlotte for a private equity firm in mergers and acquisitions.

We remember stopping to take pictures at the MGCS sign with our children on the first day of each school year.  Even thinking of it now brings back such precious memories of how the Lord decided where these two little ones would be educated.  We built our home in a neighborhood near the school we thought Hannah and Harrison would attend, but God had other plans.  When the time came for the children to begin kindergarten, we chose MGCS.  Here, our children were taught not only academics but also the fundamentals of a faith that would carry them from their preschool years into adulthood.  They learned to obey their teachers as well as to love and respect their fellow students.  MGCS was place that paralleled and supported the values that we were teaching at home. Phil and I never worried about their safety or care.

During these formative years, academic strengths and weaknesses were identified.   Different learning strategies were employed to maximize the strengths and to address the weaknesses.  Teachers, parents, and staff worked together in support of a common goal: educating children and raising them in the fear and admonition of the Lord.  It was here that Hannah and Harrison developed the strength to resist negative peer pressure. It was here that they began the discipline of making difficult choices that ultimately please the Lord. MGCS helped provide the foundation for them to succeed academically, socially, and spiritually as they entered high school, university, and professions.

We thank those who were instrumental in founding MGCS.  We thank those who have worked, prayed, and sacrificed to support and preserve this school.  MGCS is an academic oasis in a time when the fundamentals of the Christian faith are often attacked, ridiculed, and dismissed as narrow and intolerant.  May the Lord’s hand of protection and guidance be ever upon Myrtle Grove Christian School.  It is a blessing to see how God used MGCS to prepare our children to go out and shine His light and offer His hope in dark and desperate places.