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Welcome back to another Fall! We want to introduce you to each of the teachers that will be teaching your children this year.
Ashley and Adam Means
Ashley is the lead teacher in the Preschool class room. Adam is her primary assistant and they are going into their third year of teaching the 3 to 5 year olds at Christ Community Church.
Ashley and Adam have four children, Avery, Ally Claire, Alan and Ace.
Ashley has been teaching children for 15 years.
The Means’ have been a member at CCC for 7 years,
A few little details about Ashley when asked about herself:
I love to eat baked goods and drink iced coffee, spend time with my family, read, organize, play with our dog, and enjoy nature.
When asked why she teaches, and what she enjoys about teaching the Preschoolers at CCC:
I love to teach and communicate truths from the Bible. I love to see a child’s face as they begin to understand new concepts. And I like to develop meaningful relationships with the students.
***If your child is moving up from the Toddler room or enjoying another year in the Preschool room Ashley and Adam will be teaching during the 9am service. We are looking forward to another wonderful year in the Preschool room!
In today’s weekly email there was a quote that I submitted:
“The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven…The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
This was an example of poor history and scholarship that is out there and was popularized by Dan Brown. It wasn’t earmarked as such in the weekly email and it should have been.
If you want to know a more biblical view, here’s one from JI Packer, writing of those who believe that a revelation delivered by sinful and ignorant human beings must itself be imperfect he states:
But this is to deny the biblical doctrine of providence, according to which God ‘worketh all things after the counsel of his own will’. The Bible excludes the idea of a frustrated Deity. ‘Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth’. He was well able to prepare, equip and overrule human writers so that they wrote nothing but what He intended; and the Scripture tells us that this is what in fact he did. We are to think of the Spirit’s inspiring activity, and, for that matter, of all His regular operations in and upon human personality, as (to use an old but valuable technical term) concursive; that is, as exercised in, through and by means of the writers’ own activity, in such a way that their thinking and writing was both free and spontaneous on their part and divinely elicited and controlled, and what they wrote was not only their own work but also God’s work.