Beloved St. James family members,
Greeting in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The new academic year starts this month for our school going students. After a wonderful summer vacation our children are looking forward to an exited year for learning and growing. It is a cheerful experience for them. Our Sunday school classes also restart this month in personally. All the parents should take the initiative to bring their children in our Sunday school classes regularly and attend the worship service as a family.
Giving good education to children is the most important duty for parents.Education means the transformation of the values and accumulating knowledge of a society. This is an age where the ultimate goal of education is being forgotten. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” Aristotle. C.S Lewis said, “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil”. The UNESCO has point out four purposes of learning. They are learning to know, learning to do, learning to live, and learning to be. Let our children be able to participate in a meaningful education process.
For a meaningful Christian life Christian education is inevitable. Systematic edification in our Scripture, faith and practices should imparted to our next generation for molding a community of Christian values. So, we must take the Sunday school education process very seriously. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way should go, I will counsel you with my loving eye on you” (Ps 32:8). May God help our children to participate in an educational process that leads to a remarkable transformation.
God bless you all.
Ajith Varghese Achen
