When people ask me what I love most about LCS do I say the great education or the amazing teachers and staff? Do I say lifelong friendships are formed from the day they walk in the door? Yes, I love all of those things! The education is top-notch and can challenge even the brightest students. The LCS teachers are incredible. They treat their students with respect and great care. If a student or student’s family is going through something challenging at home, these individuals truly care, invest, and help supplement in any way needed, especially with prayer. The class sizes are small enough to allow the teachers the opportunity to continue building their former students up as they proceed into the next grades and the Specials teachers truly are special in the way they creatively reach kids from kindergarten to 8th grade in age-appropriate ways. The staff and administration are hospitable, responsive, engaged, and innovative. We are blessed by their remarkable leadership. I also love the friendships that my children are developing with other students at school that last from year to year to year. They don’t have to be with the same teacher to continue growing their previously built relationships. I could even give the churchy answer and say my favorite thing is their deepening relationship with Jesus as their Lord and Savior as they see it taught and modeled at school in ways that are unique but aligned to what they are learning at home.
I love each of these things more than words can express. But the #1 item on my list is the relationships that we have formed as families and as moms. I am so grateful for getting to do life with other like-minded families…families who encourage and support each other in good times and in struggles without judgment. Families who SEE each other and LOVE each other. If I am going through something at work, I can reach out to other moms I have befriended through LCS and know that I have prayer warriors in my corner. If our kids are struggling with something or facing a battle, we rally to support those kids and families together. I know that we are not in this alone. We have each other to cry with and to celebrate with. As the saying goes, “It takes a village”; LCS is a village. This is what makes LCS special. This is what makes LCS FAMILY.