1. Bridges

2. Has Education Changed in the last 10 years?

5. DISTORTED THINKING ABOUT RIGHTS

8. What is a bridge?
Where you
want to be
Where you are
Something you
want to avoid

9. What is a bridge made of?
Steel
Wood
Branches
Tree
Words
Love
Service

10. Prisoner of War
Bobby
What would you desire?
A future
Hope!

11. Hope Jesus is the bridge from where we are to where we need to be
Hope is missing
Hope and wholeness
Parents – consumers – hope for the wrong thing
Secular education provides a different kind of hope

12. How does this relate to Adventist education

13. Dan Jackson financial commitment demographics
NAD Hope and Wholeness
Fuchido
Billy a future

14. Does Adventist Education
even have a chance?

15. Largest private system in North America
100% full-time teachers Adventist
30% of our children in Adventist Education – Good or bad
Only private system that has 100% of it’s schools accredited
One of only a few that has denominational teacher certification system
Only system that creates its own curriculum and is able to push to local level
Preservice teachers connected to teaching situations

16. No one has ever been
cured by an autopsy!

17. What is the problem?

18. The Great Controversy at play in the classroom
. .
The Great Controversy at play in the classroom

19. Erroneous Learning Purpose Conflict/ Confusion Hopelessness
Worldly Philosophy
Wrong Ed. Systems
Erroneous Learning Purpose
Conflict/
Confusion
Hopelessness
Naturalism
Relativism
Egotism
Who Is Right?
Criminality/
Calamity
Creation
Divine Truth
Altruism
God Is Right
Hope & Love
Christian Philosophy
Bible-based Systems
Christ-centered Purpose
Bible—the lamp onto our feet
Realities of Eternity

20. Why spend the money?

21. What does all of this
have to do with bridges?

22. Where you
want to be
Where you are
Something you
want to avoid

23. What is a bridge made of?
Jesus
Teachers
Pastors
Parents
Words
Love

24. 1 Samuel 13:1-23 Saul attacks Philistine camp Philistines –
3 companies of chariots (3000), v 5
6 companies of cavalry (6.000),
Men – looked like the sands on the seashore
Saul – 3,000 men
Scared - abandoned him v 6-7
Saul waited 7 days for Samuel v 8
Burnt offering v 9-10
Foolish thing to do v
600 men left v 15
No blacksmiths left in Israel – no weapons
Sending our young people to sharpen their swords with the enemy? What will they have when the great controversy (war) breaks out?

25. 1 Samuel 14:1-15 Jonathan armed Verse 6
“Jonathan said to his armor bearer. ‘come let us go across to these uncircumcised pagans. Maybe God will work for us. There is no rule that says God can only deliver by using a big army. No one can stop God from saving when He sets His mind to it.” MSG
V 8-10 go across and let them see us
Come on up and we will know God will deliver them
Charged up the hill and killed 20 men.
Set the stage for David and Goliath in chapter 17

26. God has built a bridge, it is Adventist education
God has built a bridge, it is Adventist education! From where we are to where He wants us and our children to be, with Him.
Theme of the Bible
Fishing
The bridge is made of you and me, we cannot be twigs, we must have some substance!

27. Can we say as Jonathan did that day,
“God will work for us. There is no rule that says God can only deliver by using a big army. No one can stop God from saving when He sets His mind to it.” MSG

28. To have His children home!
Yes there are challenges, but God IS in charge!
The Philistines are surrounding the camp, but God has built a bridge to the other side. Jesus, with the blood of His own Son he built that bridge for you and I, for the homeschooled child, the disruptive child in the back of the classroom, the angry parent, and the lonely single mother.
A bridge that is accessible to all and leading to God’s eternal HOPE…
To have His children home!