Another Week

Another week in the life—in the life of a school. The life of Amano.

Worship

This past Sunday we held our first Family Worship Service of the New Year. It seemed fitting that we would begin the year with a focus on the love of God, for what could be more of a starting point than this most central aspect of the Christian faith?
During the service, Mr. Philip Grove spoke of how love is “only experienced as love is returned,” and of how God is grieved when His people reject the love He extends to us. Our goal here at Amano is to receive the love of God, and to return that love by demonstrating our obedience to God, living in a way that pleases Him.
In this Family Worship Service, I am quite certain that God was looking down upon us with pleasure. For in addition to the message from Mr. Grove, we had our first appearance of the Secondary School Choir, to lead us in the songs: “Beautiful One,” “The Love of God,” “O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus,” and other congregational hymns. We also had the delight of hearing the ladies of the choir performing a lovely acappela version of “I Sing a Simple Song of Love,” displaying their clear gift of melodies, and of harmonies.

Great results!

In other news, this past week brought the returned results from last year’s grade 12 IGCSE exams. It is no exaggeration to say that we have much to be proud of here—a straight A-star performance from one young man, for example! Yes, we are proud of, and we congratulate, these hard-working young men and women.

New Staff

We are also enjoying the new staff members who have joined us this term: Miss Ruth, from Canada, and Mr. Simon, from Germany. Both are here to work in the dorms, Miss Ruth with the girls’ and Mr. Simon with the boys’. We heartily welcome them, and we are already grateful for all their hard work and their helpful spirits.
Once more, thank you all for joining us in our Amano walk of life.