God is moving on the campus of MCA!
As an educator, one of your greatest joys is to watch your student’s share their faith with their peers in a public setting. I don’t know that I have the words to express how powerful our Student Week of Prayer at Minnetonka Christian Academy was last week.
I continually prayed that our student leaders would take it seriously and would purposefully organize the week involving a lot of different students. That prayer was answered. Bryant Rodriguez came to me with a very detailed plan including the theme for the week, a list of speakers who had agreed to participate and an agenda for how each chapel program would play out. He enlisted Amanda Goss to organize students to have prayer time and to lead praise music each day. The students who were in charge each day practiced before chapel and each program progressed well organized.
With all that said, none of that is what made this Week of Prayer so powerful. The incredible moments of the week came from our student speakers sharing from their heart and giving personal testimonies of how God has changed their lives. Then each day a call was given for students to linger after the program in answer to God’s voice and to pray together in a conversational prayer time. Every single day during this time, student after student would ask God for forgiveness and would beg for God’s Spirit to enter their heart and help them continue to deepen their personal relationship with God. And every day I was amazed by the response of the students asking God to soften their hearts and help them love and care about others more.
By Friday, there were over 50 students in grades 7-12 that responded to the call to pray together. The request that I heard over and over was that God would not let this spiritual high die after the Week of Prayer, but that it would become the norm in our school moving forward.
To help encourage this, Bryant asked Nathan Berglund to create a drawing of Christ and asked all the students that came forward for the call on Friday to formalize that commitment by signing the drawing. This piece of art and commitment is being framed and it will hang in the hall of MCA as a reminder of what we all want to be the focus of Minnetonka Christian Academy.
Let me say it again, “There is no greater joy than to witness God’s Spirit in our students!”
By Ken Rannow, Minnetonka Christian Academy Principal
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