Dear ICS Community,

Each week at ICS, our campus is filled with moments of faith, hope, and repeated times where God is clearly at work. If you find yourself in the theater during a chapel service, you’ll see students from ages 5-18 stepping up to lead our community in prayers, worship, and sharing God’s Word. These chapels are not just weekly events, but opportunities for our students to be active participants in God’s story. Whether it’s a first grader singing for the first time on stage or an 11th grader sharing a testimony, each voice reflects God as part of the lives of our students.

Bible classes at every grade level give students space to explore Scripture, wrestle with big questions, and discover how God’s truth connects with their lives. Behind the scenes, it’s the commitment of our staff gathering every morning for devotions and prayer that sets the tone for all we do. We begin each day seeking God together, believing that education rooted in faith shapes not only minds, but hearts.

As this new season of autumn settles in, I’d like to gently challenge each family to find a moment each day to keep God first at home. Share a short prayer around the table, read a Bible verse together, or take a moment to reflect as a family on God’s goodness this week.  Take time for those bedtime prayers, and have a conversation about where you’ve seen God at work this week. As I’ve shared before, I’ve come to realize that when we share our personal stories of God’s guidance, hope, and love, it anchors our children in a world full of competing voices.  Sometimes, it’s only later that we recognize those special “God moments,” as my mother-in-law calls them, but they’re worth sharing with our children, even when they feel somewhat ordinary.  Our faith as parents and God’s reliability as our Redeemer speak powerfully into our children’s lives.