RCC Celebration Speech 2021
What do you do when it all gets too hard? Do you start yelling at mum or dad? Do you fight with your brother or sister? Maybe you start to hit stuff or maybe you go quietly to your room and sit there, a little tear falling from the corner of your eye as you wait for...
Enjoy the Process
After watching Felipe Toledo, Word Surfing League’s number 3 in the world, win his final play-off under extreme pressure I heard him interviewed and asked how he managed to stay calm and produce such a high scoring wave to win. His response was simple and yet...
Where your treasure is, there your heart is also…
How did you react to the announcement that we're going to be in lockdown until Saturday, 28 August, at least! For me, I have found the second week a lot harder than the first this time round. It almost feels a little bit heavier, slower, more formidable. A cheerful...
What’s your favourite moment?
I absolutely love the Olympics, not just to be able to watch the sports that we never get to see (like sport climbing – that was amazing!), but we get to look at life from a different perspective. My favourite moments are the comebacks, the underdog winning, or...
Praise the Lord
Without getting too deep into a philosophical conversation, with everything going on around us at the moment, I would like to share with you a thought I had in the middle of the week. As someone who believes in a creator God, I can say that I've contemplated many...
Tribulation
… We also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.The...
Talking to Jesus
I was recently listening to a new song that tells the story of the impact of faithful prayer on one family. It is called Talking to Jesus, by Elevation Worship and Maverick City (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbRHsHnMT2w). In one of the verses, the father retells...
Seize the Day
Opportunity can take many forms, and often it is the way we choose to see something that enables us to truly make the most of the opportunities before us or run from them. The challenge as a parent and a teacher is to continue to build the resilience and patterns of...
Identity. Purpose. Hope.
Education the RCC Way... In the world our children are inheriting, their sense of hope, purpose and identity are entangled in media driven notions of success, popularity (especially in terms of social media) and unrealistic aspirations for immediacy and perfection. Is...
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Charles Swindoll.
This week, we would like to share with you what Mrs Lynden-Bell, our school counsellor has been doing with our students to start the term… For God has not given us a spirit of fear and worry, but of power, love, and self-control (2 Tim 1:7). Walking with God means...
VUCA!
Welcome back! What a wonderful start we have had. It is wonderful to see our community gather again after what I pray was a restorative and refreshing Christmas and New Year. It is very exciting to welcome so many new families to our community. Thank you to our...