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SchoolWorks Action Plans

Central California Conference “SchoolWorks” was an encouraging weekend (March 10, 2007) with 400+ individual participants, representing our CCC churches and schools. Much prayer, communication around tables by the local areas, presentations by Dick Duerksen, Dick Osborne and others, as well as participants developing specific action plans for followup back in the home areas. The theme was how to help all our children accept Jesus and be saved with us forever by using families, churches, and schools better together.

Area One
San Francisco Adventist School

Action Plans for My Church

• Make the school and families an integral part of Area One monthly prayer breakfasts.
• Spend time at next Area One pastors' meeting debriefing about SchoolWorks.
• Prepare for Education Day in all Area One churches (April 28 is a day set aside by the NAD).
• Allow time in church services for students and families to share their stories about what Adventist education has meant to them.
• Invite the principal and school to my church.
• Determine that no child will be excluded from receiving an Adventist education.
• Place a link on my church’s website to SFAS (www.sfasonline.org).
• Position churches as family-friendly (training/in-servicing available through NAD Children’s Ministries).
• Know what schools our children attend (public, private, Adventist, or home).
• Encourage adults to share their faith stories with a younger generation.
• Collaborate and partner with SFAS and families to provide optimum spiritual growth and nurture in all our children.
• Communicate to families about BASIC Fund.
• Pray for the children and families in our churches and schools.
• Empower and equip families to provide for the spiritual growth of their families.

Action Plans for My School

• Establish date for constituency meeting. (May 5).
• Share stories (at board meeting, web, Friday Focus) from students/families about what Adventist education has meant to them.
• Train faculty on how to foster a nurture spiritual growth in children.
• See faculty involved as active members of an Area One church.
• Help children establish a closer relationship with Jesus through daily worship, daily quiet time, small group, etc.
• Provide students with opportunities to express their faith through service projects, leadership opportunities, sharing their faith stories, etc.
• Create a safe environment to be, to grow, to think, to question, to take ownership of their beliefs... to create a personal faith.
• Teach children how to make choices and decisions based upon their beliefs and worldview.
• To learn how to love others like Jesus does.
• Share with families churches about available scholarships (BASIC Fund, minority, etc.)
• Provide ideas/resources for family worship.
• Creat and distribute a DVD about SFAS.
• Establish preschool/pre-k.
• Expand 60-Day Challenge to include families.
• Provide junior high families with discussion guides for current movie releases.
• Share our faith stories with students.
• Collaborate and partner with churches and families to provide optimum spiritual growth and nurture in all our children.
• Pray for the children and families in our churches and schools.
• Plan an open house that would feature teachers/classes and churches—food, fun, games, etc.
• Empower and equip families to provide for the spiritual growth of their families.

Action Plans for My Family

• Assume primary responsibility for the spiritual growth of my children.
• Take control of my finances—budget
• Become aware of available scholarships/financing for an Adventist education (BASIC Fund, minority fund, key loan, etc).
• Begin daily family worship with my family.
• Share my faith story with my children.
• Collaborate and partner with my church and school to provide optimum spiritual growth and nurture in all our children.
• Pray for my children and the children and families in my church.

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