Good Soil, Good Fruit.

This year, we opened our 74th school year with our tradition of worship, community prayer, and introducing this year’s spiritual theme. The 2024-25 spiritual theme at LCS is Good Soil, Good Fruit. Building on last school year’s spiritual theme, Rooted in Love – Rooted in Hope, this year we are highlighting the importance of good soil in bearing fruit.

When we consider what it means to cultivate rich soil that will bear fruit, a key quality that comes to mind is gratitude. Gratitude begins with the fundamental understanding that what we have, we don’t deserve. God’s immeasurable love for us and the sacrifice of His son, Jesus, for our eternal salvation is reason alone to live with gratitude.

How do young people learn gratitude?

We teach it to them and we model it for them.

What does gratitude look like?

Being grateful people means we acknowledge with our words and our actions that we are undeserving of the incredible love God has for us. It means that we have our eyes wide open, noticing and looking for the many blessings in our lives and in our school. Jeremiah 17:7-8 is the verse on which we base our theme.

But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.

Modeling Gratitude

Being rooted in love and hope and cultivating gratitude with those around us is a way that we can bear fruit in our school this year. Grateful people are hopeful people, and this generation of children and young people need the adults in their lives to be people of hope. Let’s teach gratitude and let’s model it as a way to bear fruit in the Lansing Christian School community this year.

Good Soil, Good Fruit. At Lansing Christian School, this is our focus and prayer for the 2024-25 school year.