Lunchtime!

School is not just about learning how to read, write and do math. School is also about learning how to relate to people of different ages, backgrounds, social status, race and cultures. Here at Upper Room Christian School we put an emphasis on building strong relationships between the students and the staff. We are a family and the school has a family atmosphere.

At lunch students bring food from home, order hot lunch from our hot lunch program or just buy something from the vending machines. What's most important is that they relax and relate. The relationships forged here usually go on for years and in some cases, even for life.

Life is about our relationships. Our relationship with God. Our relationship with our family. Our relationship with our friends. And our relationship to our community. School needs to be a place where we can learn to better stregnthen and enrich these relationships because in reality....they are all that really matters!

Grace and Peace,
Ed

12 Steps To Conflict Resolution

Conflict is a part of everyday life. Even in our best relationships there is conflict (a difference of oppinion and understanding). Communication is one of the most important skills to develop.

1. Learn to embrace and resolve conflict.
2. Address your anger appropriately.
3. Seek understanding, not victory.
4. Assume the best.
5. Learn to share your feelings appropriately.
6. Watch your tongue.
7. Speak the truth in love and with respect.
8. Attack the problem not the person. Don’t use “You” statements use “I” statements.
9. Deal with specific areas not generalizations.
10. Seek and grant forgiveness. Use the 4 statements in your notes.
11. Deal with conflict personally. Go to that person. Don’t reprimand anyone in front of others.
12. Be gentle. People are fragile.

The way to conflict resolution is the way of Love!

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.


Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.

As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001 (1 Co 13:1-13).

Grace and Peace,

Ed