“Grandparents have been given a God-ordained role in the family to be a disciple-maker of children and grandchildren…If you are a grandparent, your best days are not behind, and your influence matters.”
Biblical Worldview, by Josh Mulvihill
Fredericksburg Christian School is incredibly grateful for the legacy of grandparents that love the Lord, support our students, and pray for our school. Here are some ways that grandparents are involved in the ministry work of FCS:
“After parents, the next greatest potential influence in the life of a child is a grandparent, not a teacher, not a peer, not a pastor.” Dr. Josh Mulvihill
Family Portal, our FCS family database and communication platform, allows families to specifically list grandparents under Family Demographics. From time to time, we will send emails to families, including grandparents, when we feel the information would be of interest to all. This is a great way to stay connected at large to what’s happening here at FCS!
If you are looking for something more, consider joining our Grandparent’s Association. They meet periodically throughout the year to pray, uplift our staff, provide treats for special occasions or just as an encouragement, and much more.
FCS Grandparent’s Association
Mission: To provide generational support to our grandchildren, their parents, teachers, administrators, alumni and staff. We serve the school with our time, our prayers, our finances, and other resources in gratitude for the investment FCS teachers and administrators are making in the lives of our families and community.
For more information on joining the Grandparent’s Association, contact Mrs. Suzie Medina at smedina@gofcs.org.
Find Out What’s Happening:
Grandparent’s Association Projects:
We invite you to consider donating towards the Grandparent’s Association Fund to help further the projects listed above and others like these!
Our grandson went to see the doctor, accompanied by his mother, for his annual checkup a few weeks ago. While waiting for the doctor to conduct his exam, our grandson was captivated by the medical charts hanging on the wall. Our daughter is in the medical field and began to explain the functions of each chart. After going through the various parts of the eye, explaining things that could go wrong and how important it was to be careful, they moved on to the kidney and finally to the heart. After a few minutes of explaining how the blood gets pumped through the atria and ventricles she turned and saw her son in deep thought. Thinking she might have overloaded him with details, she asked, “Is something wrong?” He hesitated and then pointed at the heart diagram saying, “But mom, where’s Jesus?” Fighting back a tear of joy she choked out a response, “Honey, Jesus is there, he’s just invisible. We can’t see him but He’s hard at work in our heart.” As grandparents, we didn’t have a dry eye when we heard this story. Our daughter and son went to FCS; to see the next generation experience the love of Christ imparted by teachers and know that Jesus resides in our hearts is overwhelming.