#Vance’s View
May 6, 2015
Greetings!
Monday and Tuesday of this week I (Vance) was in Manila. Nothing strange about that. Carol and I have been to Manila many times in the thirty years we have been in the Philippines.
What was different was the fact that this was my last Faith Academy Board of Trustees meeting. I have had the priviledge of being on the Board for the past ten years. It has been a source of joy to serve a community that is dedicated to serving us.
All five of our children have gone to Faith Academy for high school: living in the dormitories; traveling back and forth for Christmas and school breaks. Sometime, the airlines should name an airplane for us since we probably bought a wing or tail rudder.
I was very glad to serve this community through the past ten years and be part of what happened during that time.
Faith is experiencing change!
- The student body is no longer predominantly from the United States. The single largest ethnic group is now Korean.
- The school continues to try to expand its services to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student body and faculty.
- There is a small but growing component of the student body that comes from the Philippines. These students come from family with a different set of resources and needs. This too stretches the school.
- Large missions are a thing of the past and this means that faculty/staff come from smaller organizations with reduced services.
I have *enjoyed* serving this changing, dynamic community.
Thank you for making this possible.
As you pray for us, continue to pray for Faith Academy Manila.
- The need for teachers, each year, as the rate of change is quite high.
- The need for the school to anticipate further change and how to best meet that change.
- Our son, Mark, who graduates May 25. He will be leaving a great school and launching into a very different life.
- That Faith will find its way forward in serving the Kingdom of God.
Sincerely yours,
Vance and Carol Johnson
Reachglobal
Philippines
