The Spartan Blog

Run the Spartan 5K!

It is a twilight run – which just means it's at night (8:00), just as the sun is coming down and it's cooler.

It's coming soon! June 23rd, Friday at the CR9 property, parking on both sides of the property, and the event starts at the shelter at McKinley Fields (formerly called Calvary Fields)

We are using the theme – Building on the Rock and a sub theme of Construction Zone because we are running right through our just beginning construction of the massive phase 2 project.

Lots of Biblical connections to keep us on task, focused, and informed. Our building is going to help us improve our quality of Christian Education, but also allow us to increase our enrollment and give more students/families the opportunity to get value by building lives around Biblical Truth and the foundations of Jesus Christ. Matt 7:24 – 26 exhorts us to build our lives on the right foundation that supports everything else we do.

The process of building takes a lot of work, and a lot of planning. There are so many factors involved and it includes perseverance to move from an idea, to a plan, to completion and then useful service. That same kind of work and planning is needed to build the education of our students. We have so many amazing stories of kids who have grown from the beginning of the year to the end, not to mention growing from early grades to graduation. So as a school our kids are “in process” or "under construction"... they are becoming something great! (and so are we!)

My wife is a math teacher, and as she relates her occupation to people she will often hear a negative reaction, “I hate math.” Well, the only thing that may get a more negative response is when I tell people they should run cross country and I hear, you guessed it… “I hate running!”

And yet God’s Word has several examples where running is the perfect illustration to help us understand that racing is like a fight (II Tim 4:17) and we must pursue the finish line even as it gets increasingly more difficult. Or how about Heb 12:1-3 where we have a cloud of witnesses rooting us on in our race and we are encouraged to throw off entanglements so we can be light and focused on our race. And then my favorite comes from I Cor 9:24, where we are told to run as to win! Paul explains that we must go into strict training and be purposeful and hardworking about the goals we want to achieve.

What a perfect combination of Truth!

Let’s put this all together and join the school family along with the community, and actually run, allowing the metaphors to live in our experience. To also realize that we are growing, our kids are growing, we want to see our school grow. We must face a culture that needs a vibrant, biblically integrated school that is bent on proclaiming truth and seeing students grow and learn, while being prepared and trained as productive, problem solving, valuable members of our society.

To move this construction project along, whether it is in our education and personal development or the actual building of the building, we need perseverance. We need the Body of Christ. We need the tenaciousness of the runner.

Let’s celebrate this process at the Spartan 5K on Friday, June 23rd. Sign up today!

Register to run here! Calvary Christian Spartan 5K (runsignup.com)