1. Community Christian School
Membership Meeting Fall 2012

2. What do John Ortberg,
Peter Block, Esther, and
Ray Pennings all have in
Common?

3. What do we value
In Christian education?

4. The Story of Esther
A Lesson in Shadow Missions

5. Google: “A Leader’s Greatest Fear”

6. King Xerxes Queen Vashti Haman
Mordechai Esther

7. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and
deliverance for the Jews will arise from another
place, but you and your father’s family will perish.
And who knows but that you have come to your
royal position for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14

8. King Xerxes Queen Vashti Haman
Mordechai Esther

9. Shadow Mission
What distracts us from our mission?

10. King Xerxes Queen Vashti Haman
Wealth, More Power, Control, Prestige
Mordechai Esther
Security, the Good Life

11. What is our Shadow
Mission?
• Financial Security?
• More students?
• Being Better than the Rest?

12. Community Christian School
Membership Meeting Fall 2012

14. “There is something in the persistent question
How? that expresses each person’s struggle
between having confidence in their capacity to live
a life of purpose and yielding to the daily demands
of being practical.
It is entirely possible to spend our days engaged in
activities that work well for us and achieve our
objectives, and still wonder whether we are really
making a difference in the world.”

15. “My premise is that this culture, and we as
members of it, have yielded too easily to what is
doable and practical and popular. In the process
we have sacrificed the pursuit of what is in our
hearts.
We find ourselves giving in to our doubts, and
settling for what we know how to do, or can soon
learn how to do, instead of pursuing what most
matters to us and living with the adventure and
anxiety this requires.”

17. What do we value? What is the value?
• Defined by us • The answer exists already
• A collective process • Created by others
• Within our control • Outside our control

20. Example

39. Does the evidence
support what we
value?

40. Three Summary
Points

41. 1. What we Value….

42. 2. Our Shadow
Mission….

43. CCS educates children in a respectful
nurturing environment through quality
Christ-centred programs.

44. 3. For such a time as
this……

45. What do we value
In Christian education?